Time, Care, and Educational Infrastructure
Much of what sustains digital learning happens quietly and without recognition. Platforms are maintained, content is updated, and learners are supported through invisible acts of care. These forms of labour make education possible, yet they are rarely valued as part of pedagogy.
In my latest post, I explore what might change if we began to see time, care, and maintenance as essential educational practices rather than background work.
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Plurality, Natality, and the Promise of Education
Education is often presented as the transmission of knowledge. Yet Hannah Arendt’s ideas of plurality and natality point us toward a richer promise.
Plurality reminds us that education always involves the meeting of diverse perspectives. Natality highlights that each new generation brings the possibility of new beginnings. Together they suggest that education is not only about continuity but also about creating conditions for renewal.
In a time when digital platforms and institutional pressures often move us toward uniformity, how can online learning preserve openness to plurality and to the unexpected promise of renewal?
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Institution, Technology, and the Reproduction of Society
Education is not only the transmission of knowledge. It is always involved in the reproduction of society. Institutions decide what counts as knowledge and how it is valued. Technology extends this process, reinforcing institutional logics but also opening new possibilities for change.
In my latest blog post, I draw on the work of Cornelius Castoriadis to explore how digital learning technologies mediate between reproduction and transformation. The key question is whether these technologies serve mainly to reproduce existing institutional patterns, or whether they can also create genuine spaces for collective imagination.
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Imaginaries of the Common Good – From Market Logic to Democratic Renewal
How can digital learning move beyond a market logic that frames learners as customers and platforms as products, towards practices that strengthen democracy and the common good?
In this post I explore how imaginaries shape education and how shifting from efficiency and scale to collaboration and shared responsibility might open new possibilities for digital pedagogy.
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Imaginaries of the Common Good – From Market Logic to Democratic Renewal
This post explores how imaginaries shape what counts as “the common good” in education, contrasting marketised logics of competition and measurement with democratic imaginaries of participation, plurality, and care.www.e-learning-rules.com
Education as Polis – Reclaiming the Public Dimension of Learning
What if we treated education as a public practice that builds a shared world, rather than reducing it to skills, metrics, or efficiency?
In my latest blog post I explore the idea of education as polis. This perspective sees learning as a collective act of world making, where classrooms, courses, and digital spaces can nurture the common good. Yet when platforms are structured around surveillance, competition, and control, the public dimension of education is put at risk.
I develop these ideas further here:
e-learning-rules.com/blog/0046…
How can we reclaim digital learning spaces so they truly serve the public good? What practices or examples have you seen that embody this vision?
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Rewriting the Imaginary: Educators as Moral Agents of Reinstitution
What if the greatest barrier to change in education is not technology or funding, but the way we imagine what education is?
Institutions are never neutral. They carry histories, values, and priorities that shape what is possible in teaching and learning. When we accept these frameworks as fixed, even our innovations can end up reinforcing their limits.
In my latest blog post, I explore how educators can act as moral agents of reinstitution, helping to rewrite the structures and values that underpin education: e-learning-rules.com/blog/0045…
What changes could you make in your own context that challenge the default system rather than adapt to it?
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The Moral Background of Education: Introducing the Social Imaginary
What if the real limits of digital education are not just technical or institutional, but moral and cultural?
In my latest blog post, I explore the idea of the social imaginary as a way of understanding the background beliefs and assumptions that shape how we design, deliver, and interpret education. These moral frameworks often go unexamined, yet they determine what counts as legitimate learning and who the imagined learner is.
By surfacing these assumptions, we open the door to reimagining education in more inclusive, democratic, and imaginative ways.
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e-learning-rules.com/blog/0040…
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Time, History, and the Institution of Learning – Beyond the Eternal Present of EdTech
Much of edtech is designed for immediacy. Speed, convenience, and disruption dominate the narrative. But learning is not instantaneous. It is slow, situated, and shaped by time and tradition.
In this post, I explore how digital learning environments might better respect the temporal and institutional dimensions of education. What might it mean to design technologies that support slowness, memory, and pedagogical depth?
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Critique as Creation - From Technological Solutionism to Political Pedagogy
Too often, critique in digital education is dismissed as negativity or resistance. But what if critique could be something more constructive? What if it was a way of creating rather than simply opposing?
In my latest blog post, I argue that we need to move beyond solutionism and reclaim critique as a generative force. Drawing on Feenberg and Illich, I explore how political pedagogy and design grounded in educational values can open new spaces for imagining what learning could be.
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Imagining Otherwise – Castoriadis, Radical Imagination, and the Crisis of Educational Futures
What if the challenge in digital education is not about the technology, but about our failure to imagine education differently?
In this new post, I explore how Cornelius Castoriadis’ concept of radical imagination helps us question the institutional forms we often take for granted. Platforms, data, and automation are not neutral. They reflect and reinforce particular logics. Education can be otherwise.
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The Hidden Curriculum of the LMS
Learning Management Systems do not just organise course content. They also organise thought.
In this blog post, I explore how the design of LMS platforms subtly shapes educational practice and limits pedagogical possibilities. These platforms carry values and assumptions that often go unquestioned.
What has your LMS taught you - unintentionally?
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