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This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it opens a dialogue between agile management theory and agile learning theory.
The book argues that there is a tension between participative and action-orientated approaches on the one hand and neoliberal enclosure of the actor on the other hand. It takes this as an opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue between learning theories and management concepts. With contributions from a range of international experts, chapters discuss the need for suitable theoretical, epistemological, and ethical foundations as well as practice-orientated methods for learning and management to implement appropriate strategies and meet educational challenges.
This highly topical book will be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students, and researchers in the fields of digital learning, educational theory, management theory, and communication studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Learning to manage the digital turn 2. Agile cognition and the age of transformation 3. Revisiting enabling formalizations of remote work: learnings for short-term and long-term impacts 4. Digital technologies, management, and big data: a way to a "living" or a "dead" (school) life? 5. Paranoiac versus agile management of universities Part 2: Learning and management in the digital age 6. From agile management to agile orientated teaching and learning: a heuristic analysis 7. Moving forward in social constructivist theories through agile learning in the digital age 8. The magic of digitalized educational projects 9. Lightschools® space and freedom for the co-creation of new possibilities, opportunities, and valuable solutions 10. Agile learning and management in times of crisis in the digital age: actor-reality construction in the COVID-19 pandemic Part 3: The digital management of the lifeworld 11. From the fordist self to the entrepreneurial self: self management in times of digitization 12. Between romance and market: the construction of partnership on dating platforms 13. Conclusion
About the author
David Kergel is Professor of Social Work, IU International University of Applied Sciences and Director of the Center for Diversity and Education in the Digital Age, Germany.
Birte Heidkamp-Kergel is the Leading Coordinator of the E-Learning Centre, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Hanne Nørreklit is Professor of Management Accounting and Control, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Michael Paulsen is Associate Professor at the Syddansk University, Denmark.
Summary
This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it opens a dialogue between agile management theory and agile learning theory.
