Education for Future: Digitalization and Learning to Become With the World
Ernst Schraube, Roskilde University

One of the major achievements of Critical Psychology consists in contributing to a fundamental rethinking of the theory and practice of learning. Learning is understood not just as an acquisition of pregiven knowledge, but as a problem-oriented, worlding practice embedded in the learners’ conduct of everyday life with affinitive and expansive learning as key concepts. Problem- and world-oriented learning represents an essential activity in future society and a crucial question is in how far digital technologies can help to enrich affinitive and expansive learning? Digital technologies do not simply represent neutral tools, but contradictory forms of life, political artifacts embodying particular materialized actions. Based on critical-psychological theory of learning as well as critical theories of digitalization, the paper engages in rethinking education for a viable future and discusses the possibilities and limits of digital technologies for problem- and world-oriented practices of learning.

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Ernst Schraube,
Ernst Schraube is Professor of Social Psychology of Technology in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses on the social and political implications of modern technology in everyday life, and he is currently working on a project on digitalization and learning. He studied at the Psychological Institute (PI) of the Free University Berlin from where he received his diploma and PhD. Among his books are Auf den Spuren der Dinge: Psychologie in einer Welt der Technik (Argument) and the co- edited volumes Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject: Writings of Klaus Holzkamp (Palgrave Macmillan), Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life (Routledge), Psychological Studies of Science and Technology (Palgrave Macmillan) and Subjectivity and Knowledge: Generalization in the Psychological Study of Everyday Life (Springer). He is President-Elect of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. More info: www.ruc.dk/~schraube.