2021-09-24 - Anne-Kathrin Peters SPOTLIGHT seminar

The SPOTLIGHT this time is on Anne-Kathrin Peters who joined the Department of Learning in May 2021 as Associate Professor in technology education with a focus on sustainability, especially equality and justice. Anne joins the department coming from the IT department at Uppsala University (UU). There she was a member of the Uppsala Computing Education Research group. She was also the coordinator of the climate change leadership initiative at UU, initiating and supporting cross-disciplinary and -institutional research collaborations on societal transformations. Anne has studied the discipline of computing as it is produced and reproduced in university education. A central finding is that students are socialized into masculine and unsustainable disciplinary practices. You can read about this research in her PhD work [1], a journal article published in TOCE [2], or in a Swedish book chapter published by Studentlitteratur [3].

Anne says:

- In the SPOTLIGHT event, I will focus on talking about how higher education (especially technology education) might be reimagined and transformed to become a domain that allows diverse people to care for the world, and learn by doing so. I will tell a bit about research on social constructions of university/technology education to discuss change. I hope the presentation will allow us to connect and I appreciate if you tell me about related work already going on at KTH and beyond.

- As a preparation, you can read a 4-page description of a special session, introducing perspectives of care for computing and engineering education [4]. You can read the article that I will present as one one of my favourite articles, theorising education that takes responsibility for the future [5], authored by Deborah Osberg.

- If you have more time and interest, have a look at one of my very recent accepted articles, which I will present at the FIE conference in October [6]. I applied some of the education theories I have come to find valuable in the past years to develop and reflect on a project course at UU. In the future, I would like to bring together some of these theoretical perspectives from environmental and sustainability education research, futures studies, and philosophy of education with feminist research.

PROGRAM 9.00 - 10.00

• Anne-Kathrin Peters presents her research (20 minutes)
• discussion
• Anne-Kathrin Peters presents her favourite paper (10 minutes)
• discussion

Documentation: (will appear here after the seminar)

For PhD students: 10.00 - 11.00 Continued discussions (separate invitation)

REFERENCES

Articles 4 and 5 will be sent out on email 10 days before the seminar. You can also request all articles anytime from akpeters@kth.se or kristina@kth.se.

[1] Peters, A.-K. (2017) Learning Computing at University: Participation and Identity: A Longitudinal Study, Doctoral Thesis, Uppsala.

[2] Peters, A.-K., (2018) Student Experience of Participation in a Discipline – A Longitudinal Study of Computer Science and IT Engineering Students, in ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE).

[3] Koch-Svedberg, G., Peters, A.-K. (2021) Om utbildningens möjlighet att förändra den mansdominerade teknikkulturen in Franzén, C., Tzimoula, D. (Eds.) Genus och Professioner, Studentlitteratur.

[4] Peters, A.-K., Bengtsson, S., Cajander, Å., Daniels, M., Grande, V., Lönngren, J., Salminen-Karlsson, M. (2020) “Care ethics to develop computing and engineering education for sustainability”, Frontiers in Education conference 2020.

[5] Osberg, D. (2010). Taking Care of the Future? The complex responsibility of education & politics. In Osberg, Deborah & G. Biesta (Eds.), Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education (pp. 157–170). Sense Publishers.

[6] Peters, A.-K., Golay, D., Mats, D. (2021), Making Futures in Computing Education. "Emergentist Education" in an Open-Ended Group Project. Frontiers in Education Conference 2021.