Call for papers SPECIAL ISSUE: Hacker spirit. Empowering digital citizens

10-02-2022

 

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Editors of the Special Issue:

Publication of the special issue: December 2022

Final submission and acceptance: 31st of July  / Extended: 31s of August 2022

Keywords: Hacker, Hacker education, Education for citizenship, Collaborative practices, Open Science, Collaboration

 

Introduction:

Based on the hacker movement inspired by Pekka Himanen (The Ethics of the hacker and the spirit of the information age), this special issue seeks to deepen the debate on the approach of these movements to education and school in particular. It starts from the principles of the hacker movement to envision and propose a hacker-style education: the strong presence of collaboration; doing in love with one's own doing, experimentation as a formative process; the error being an essential element for formative processes; among others.

It is strategic to think about the movements around open software, open access, the possibilities of Open Educational Resources (OER) in connection with the debate on copyright and the possibilities of licensing scientific, cultural and educational materials, and going further, the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or the use of blockchain. These issues pose a significant challenge to the massive presence of large digital platforms in education, known as the big techs or GAFAM (acronym for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), which dominate the educational field, a process identified as the colonization of public education in much of the Western world.

This situation accentuates the democratic principles of education for citizenship. It demands a posture of teachers and researchers as organic intellectuals, committed to their reality and who assume the political role of the educator as an activist in the formation of citizens involved in social transformation with and through ICTs.

Today, technological media potentially allow (actually, since their creation) another decentralized and collaborative learning and production process, which, as yet, we do not choose as a priority in our daily practices, inside and outside the school.

The free circulation of knowledge allied to collaborative practices of open production and co-production challenge education and propose, by their different ways, profound changes in integrating ICT in pedagogical practices. That is to say, there is, latently, a more democratic way to promote the critical formation of citizens from the integration of ICTs by the hacker perspective. Finding and promoting these spaces of possibility is an urgent task for intellectuals and educators committed to emancipatory education. Researching, understanding, enunciating and sharing experiences is also urgent task.

That is why this special issue has this objective: to aggregate and publish studies and experiences that face such challenges in order to become an enabling environment for the collective production of meanings and knowledge about hacker education.

 

Topics or lines of interest:

  • digital technologies and education
  • open software and education
  • open hardware for education
  • copyright and licensing
  • authorial and collective production of cultural products
  • new modalities of teaching and learning with ICTs
  • techniques and technologies for audiovisual production
  • prototyping as a training practice
  • open access
  • citizen educational innovation
  • commons
  • networked learning
  • cyberculture and education
  • citizen laboratories
  • collaborative pedagogical practices
  • citizenship education

Important deadlines: 

  • Initial date for submitting paper: 01/03/2022
  • Notification to the authors: 31/07/2022
  • Final submission and acceptance: 31/10/2022
  • Publication of the special issue: 12/2022

 

Profile of the editors: 

Antonio Bartolomé Pina

PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences.

Professor of Digital Media and Education at the University of Barcelona.

Director of the Institute for Research in Education at the same institution.

Author of 33 books and 177 articles, he has given 268 conferences in different countries and has directed or participated in some fifty international research projects.

His two main lines of research have been the Design of multimedia learning environments, and Technology-enhanced learning assessment. Both lines converge in blended learning designs and the use of blockchain in Education.

Web: http://abartolome.eu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8096-8278

Andrea Lapa

Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the Graduate Program in Education and in undergraduate courses for teacher training. She works at the intersection between Education and Communication. She participates and leads the Comunic research group, in topics such as: human rights education, training for citizenship in digital culture; ICT-mediated education, teacher training for the integration of technologies, online teaching. She coordinates local networks of researchers in national and international cooperation projects, such as the project "School-World Connection: innovative spaces for citizenship training". She was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Education (2019-2020) and the New Technologies Laboratory (2007-2013/2016-2018).

Web: http://andrealapa.sites.ufsc.br/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-4012

 

Nelson De Luca Pretto

Full Professor at the Faculty of Education, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. PhD in Communication at the School of Communication and Arts/University of Sao Paulo (1994), Bachelor's Degree in Physics (1977) and Master's Degree in Education (1985), both at UFBA. Research fellow by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). Visiting researcher in (postdoc) at the Learning, Media and Social Interactions of the Universitat de Barcelona. Latest books:    Educaciones, Culturas e Hackers: ensayos y refelxiones (EDUFBA and LMI/Universitat de Barcelona, 2019); Educações, Culturas e Hackers: escritos e reflexões (Edufba, 2017); Uma dobra no tempo - um memorial (quase) acadêmico (Editus, 2015). He was Director of the Faculty of Education at the Federal University of Bahia (2000-2008) and Editor of the Journal entreideias: educação, cultura e sociedade (www.revistaentreideias.ufba.br).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8152-8963

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS AND SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

We welcome original contributions, written in English or Spanish that thoughtfully engage: 

  • Research projects reports, extension of 5000-6500 words.
  • Innovation experiences scientifically reviewed and susceptible of being transfered to other contexts and situations, extension of 5000-6500 words.
  • Systematic literature reviews, extension of 5000-6500 words.

 

Manuscripts must be sent through the journal management system, selecting the special issue: Hacker spirit. Empowering digital citizens (Edu-Hacker)  http://www.edutec.es/revista/

Publication rules: manuscripts must be submitted following the regular structure of the EDUTEC-E journal available at: https://www.edutec.es/revista/index.php/edutec-e/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Last call for the reception of manuscripts: 31/07/2022

Editorial process: Submitted manuscripts will be under revision following established criteria for published manuscripts (editorial board and blind review). Once the Editorial Board has completed all the admission procedures, authors will receive anonymous scientific evaluation reports informing on their acceptance or rejection. More information about the review process and its communication is available at: http://www.edutec.es/revista/

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