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Education occupies the nexus of an ever-changing field of technology and the market forces of globalization. This chapter analyzes how its effects are manifest in relation to practices grounding the socio-economical and politico-ideological conditions of teaching and learning. Platforms for e-learning and performative standards of digital literacy have influenced curricular objectives on the premise of turning out students prepared to compete for success in the “wired” international e-marketplace. The demands of corporate agendas advocating the necessary technological competence of a new careerism have transformed educational goals. We have an academic responsibility to expose the relation of knowledge to power and the ideological underpinnings of claims to reason in a computerized information society. We must recognize the ethico-political dimension of knowledge that a technological rendering of education diminishes.
Research focus: Poststructuralism, Critical Theory, Ethics, Converging Literacies, Curriculum Theory, Philosophy of Education, Social and Cultural Studies, Technology and Media.
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Trifonas, P. (2017). Digital Globalization and the Ends of Education. In: Heidkamp, B., Kergel, D. (eds) Precarity within the Digital Age. Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17678-5_10
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