Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives

The book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal,analyzed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological, and environmental. It emphasizes the importance of critical reflection,rooted in an environmental understanding of knowledge and digital media,and features practical case studies of relational pedagogy through dialogues with diverse higher education practitioners. It envisions students and educators as relational agents,with relational awareness and responsibility,aware of their multimodal identities,and highlights how a relational multimodal paradigm can serve as a way forward for universities to address global challenges.

Format: Hardback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book proposes a transformative shift in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analyzed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological, and environmental. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, the volume advocates for integrating these interconnected and distinct dimensions in higher education theory and practice. Its novelty lies in combining a diverse range of perspectives with Peircean semiotics to explore what it means to learn and live relationally. It emphasizes the significance of critical reflection, rooted in an environmental understanding of knowledge and digital media. This approach integrates materiality, place, and space in higher education, positioning caring, critically reflective, and imaginative interactions and interpretations as central for knowledge growth. The volume features practical case studies of relational pedagogy through dialogues with diverse higher education practitioners, embracing expression and creation through more than one dominant modality of communication and being. The book envisions students and educators as relational agents, with relational awareness and responsibility, aware of their multimodal identities. It highlights how a relational multimodal paradigm can serve as a way forward for universities to address global challenges concerning social, (post)digital, and environmental futures.

This innovative book will appeal to scholars, students, teachers, and policymakers in higher education, semiotics and multimodality, as well as postdigital, sociomaterial, and futures studies.

Weight: 807g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367725365