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Prof. Dr. Felicitas Macgilchrist

Former deputy spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus - Postdigital Participation - Braunschweig (2019-2023)

    Felicitas Macgilchrist is professor of media research with a focus on educational media at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She is the former head of the Department of Medial Transformations and former deputy spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus - Postdigital Participation - Braunschweig (2019-2023). She also directed The Basement - The Digital Lab at the Georg Eckert Institute. She researches at the intersection of media and school education with a special focus on the social and political context of education in the digital world.

    Felicitas Macgilchrist studied psychology, education and linguistics and received her doctorate in cultural studies from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. In 2016 she habilitated in Educational Science at the TU Braunschweig with an ethnographic-discourse-analytical study on textbook production. She has been a Visiting Scholar in New York, Ghent, and Birmingham and has taught on media, discourse studies, cultural studies, and English in Russia, Germany, Vietnam, Belgium, the UK, and the US. She is co-editor of the journal Learning, Media and Technology, a member of the advisory boards of the DiskursNetz research network, ZeMKI (University of Bremen), and the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Historical Encounters. She has been a research associate at the Georg Eckert Institute since February 2009 and department head since 2015. She can be found on Twitter at @discoursology.

    Digital education: What kinds of futures are, for instance, imagined by today's edtech, educational policy or school practices?
    Education, technology and inequality: How is technology entangled with inequality in education? How are educational stakeholders engaging with technology and inequality?
    Post-qualitative inquiry: How do, for instance, discourse studies, ethnography, software studies, critical data studies, social science fiction and design research help us to explore educational technology? How can a critical utopian approach contribute to theorising education?

    Macgilchrist, F. (2018). The “digital subject” of 21st century education: On datafication, educational technology and subject formation. In Peter Pericles Trifonas & Susan Jagger (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education. New York: Routledge.

    Macgilchrist, F. (2018). Die medialen Subjekte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Digitale Kompetenzen und/oder Critical Digital Citizenship. In Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter & Michael Asmussen (Eds), Digitalität und Selbst: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Subjektivierungs- und Bildungsprozesse. Bielefeld: transcript, 145-168.

    Macgilchrist, F. (2018). Stirbt das Buch aus und kommt das Tablet? Über die Zukunft des Schulbuches in digitalen Zeiten. Vier Viertel Kult, Frühling/Sommer, 8-9.

    Macgilchrist, F. (2017). Digitale Schulbücher: Chancen und Herausforderungen für den politischen Fachunterricht. In Harald Gapski, Monika Oberle & Walter Staufer (Eds), Medienkompetenz als Herausforderung für Politik, politische Bildung und Medienbildung. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 226-234. (open access)

    Macgilchrist, F. (2018). Zur Medialität des Schulbuchs. In Matthias Proske & Kerstin Rabenstein (Eds), Kompendium Qualitative Unterrichtsforschung. Unterricht beobachten – beschreiben – rekonstruieren. Bad Heilbrunn Klinkhardt-Verlag, 281-298.

    Macgilchrist, F., Allert, H., & Bruch, A. (2020). Students and society in the 2020s: Three future 'histories' of education and technology. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 76-89. (open access)

    Selwyn, N., Hillman, T., Eynon, R., Ferreira, G., Knox, J., Macgilchrist, F. & Sancho-Gilet, J.M. (2020). What’s next for Ed-Tech? Critical hopes and concerns for the 2020s. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 1-6. (open access)

    Macgilchrist, F. (2020) When discourse analysts tell stories: what do we ‘do’ when we use narrative as a resource to critically analyse discourse? Critical Discourse Studies, online first, 1-17. (open access)

    Macgilchrist, F. (2019). Digitale Bildungsmedien im Diskurs: Wertesysteme, Wirkkraft und alternative Konzepte. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 69, 18-23 from http://www.bpb.de/apuz/293124/digitale-bildungsmedien-im-diskurs. (open access)

    Macgilchrist, F. (2018) Digitality and Education for Sustainable Development. Annual Conference on Sustainability, Göttingen, Germany. (Video here)