EDUCABLE: Educational Socialisation in Contemporary Digitalised Societies
The EDUCABLE project employes a linguistic ethnographic approach to study young people’s engagement in digital communities alongside their everyday practice at school and their reflections on educational influences and experiences. Thereby, it explores how digital publics, influencers and alternative schooling communities possibly impact youths’ educational and occupational aspirations, or potentially disrupt assumed connections between social background and education.
Technological possibilities of retrieving knowledge and sharing experiences across time and space pose new challenges for the status of educational institutions and ideologies, but the public and political debate focus mostly on how digital devices, not content or circulated ideas, affect schooling. To qualify the debate and advance our theoretical understanding of education as enterprise in contemporary digitalised societies, EDUCABLE takes seriously digital media as social domain in the investigation of educational socialisation.
Across four data sets and four work packages, we address the following questions:
How is educability constructed and enacted in everyday school life and digital encounters?
How do students reflect on their educational path and future aspirations?
Which cultural models of educability can we identify across these domains to illuminate the challenges and refine our theorisation of contemporary mass education systems?
- Professor Rickard Jonsson, Stockholm University
- Professor Jürgen Jaspers, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Professor Julia Snell, University of Leeds
- Professor Roger Säljö, University of Gothenburg
- Senior Lecturer Caroline Tagg, Open University Milton Keynes
Funding
The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (the Council for Culture and Communication) and cooperates with the Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA).
Project period: Autumn 2024 - end of 2027
People
NorS
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larsen, Anne | Research Assistant | +4535324837 | |
| Madsen, Lian Malai | Professor | +4535328319 | |
| Møller, Janus Spindler | Associate Professor | +4535335742 | |
| Olesen, Marie Panduro | Intern | ||
| Stæhr, Andreas Candefors | Associate Professor | +4535335747 |
EVA (the Danish Evaluation Institute)
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kjærgaard, Sofie Dalum | Consultant | +4535 254662 | sdk@eva.dk |
| Nørreby, Thomas Rørbeck | Senior consultant | +4535254641 | trn@eva.dk |