CRC Annual Conference 2021 focuses on practices of “Re-Situating Learning”
Once again scholars come together in the CRC annual conference to share their research. This year’s conference “Re-Situating Learning: Making Sense of Data, Media and Dis/Unities of Learning Practices” is all about learning. This is no coincidence as it marks the 30th anniversary of Jean Lave’s and Etienne Wenger’s book “Situated Learning”. Since its release, the way of learning as a social practice has changed dramatically. Mostly due the digitization of media, which brought new concepts of learning and, thus, establishing new communities of practice that themselves are characterized by ephemerality and fluidity as fragmented, graduated and networked publics. Organized by the Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation” the conference is planning to reexamine the relations between learning and digital media from various angles. International keynote speakers will present their findings on how the digital era has changed the social practice of learning. This involves examinations ranging from practices of un-learning certain outdated methods, over human interactions with machines to babies falling asleep.
The annual conference takes place on 25–29 October 2021. It is structured in an evening event opening the conference with a keynote by Jean Lave, and four thematic panels including keynotes around the topics “Intercorporeality and Learning” (Keynote: Thomas Alkemeyer), “Decolonizing Learning, Rethinking Research” (Keynote: Koen Leurs), “Cross-Community Learning” (Keynote: Gerhard Fischer) and “Human-Machine-Learning” (Keynote: Mercedes Bunz).
For more information and a detailed program, please see the conference website.