Postdigital Pedagogy as a Synthesis of Rhizomatic Learning and the Postdigital Era

Abstract

This paper is built around two central axes: rhizomatic learning and the post-digital era. Rhizomatic learning bases its principles on the construction of knowledge based on the contributions of students in real time, with the aim of understanding the community as a curriculum. For its part, the post-digital era is understood as the situation in which digital technology is an imposed social necessity. Since education, despite being public, is not free, digitisation increases the socioeconomic gap between students with access to digital tools and those who do not. Thus, the possibility of counter-digitisation is proposed: using digital technology as another emancipatory tool. That is, when it is possible, use it competently and equitably; however, when this situation cannot be achieved, we must have a post-digital praxis that understands the world-system with the same or similar possibilities. To this end, rhizomatic learning and post-digital era will be presented as inherent parts for the production of the upcoming pedagogical proposal: the possibility of establishing a post-digital pedagogy. To provide philosophical grounding, a literature review of the two aforementioned axes is presented from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, exposing a distant and rupturist approach to the digitalist positions of current techno-capitalist education.