[csaa-forum] Invitation: ICS Special Seminar with Julian Sefton-Green (Thurs 26 April)

[Amanda Third]

The Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University warmly invites you to:



A Special ICS Seminar

'The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age'



JULIAN SEFTON-GREEN

Professor of New Media Education

Deakin University



Date: Thursday, 26 April 2018

Venue: EZ.G.23, Conference Room 1 (Female Orphan School), Western Sydney University Parramatta South campus*

Time: 2pm-3.30pm


ABSTRACT
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age

This presentation draws on a year–long ethnography into the ‘learning lives’ of 13-14 year olds in London published as The Class: Living and learning in the Digital Age by Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green (New York University Press 2016).

Focusing on the everyday and routine uses of media in the home, I will describe how learning is constructed, mediated and enacted; how different families adopt and use folk ‘theories of learning’; and how such theories relate to dominant discourses around learning in school. I examine how domestic media technologies contribute to dominant conceptualizations of education and how learning is enacted as a discipline and as a habit within the ebb and flow of family life. I question assumptions about how we talk about learning in the home by showing that who defines learning in domestic contexts - and on what basis - is subject to a series of class-based, inherited and aspirational discourses and imaginaries.

BIO
Professor Sefton-Green joined Deakin University in 2017 as Professor of New Media Education having previously held posts in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and in the Faculty of Education Research at the University of Oslo. He has worked as an independent scholar in Education and in the Cultural and Creative Industries; as a Media Studies teacher in an inner city comprehensive in London and in higher education teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, leading; teacher training degrees in media education. He was also the Head of Media Arts and Education at WAC Performing Arts and Media College - a centre for informal training and education - where he directed a range of digital media activities for young people and co-ordinated training for media artists and teachers. Professor Sefton-Green’s most recent publications include The Class: living and learning in the digital age<http://nyupress.org/books/9781479824243/> (2016) Learning Identities, Education and Community: young lives in the cosmopolitan city<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/psychology/educational-psychology/learning-identities-education-and-community-young-lives-cosmopolitan-city?format=HB> (2016).

For more information about Professor Sefton-Green’s interests and achievements, please see: http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/julian-sefton-green

PLEASE NOTE: This special seminar will follow the regular Thursday morning ICS Seminar, which will be presented by Dr Malini Sur. For more information, please see: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/seminars/ics_seminar_series

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