1st Edition
Relational and Multimodal Higher Education Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives
Acknowledgments
Part I: Setting the Ground
1. Introducing Relational and Multimodal Higher Education
2. Learning from and with Everyday Connections
3. Educational Relationality through Meanings: A Semiotic Approach
Part II: A Postdigital Higher Education
4. Rethinking Higher Education through Social Relationality
5. Learning with More-than-Humans and Digital Media
6. How Does Learning Happen?
7. Developing Higher Education through the Environment and Others
8. Social, Material, and Digital Semiotics at Universities
9. Challenging One-Dimensional Literacy, Media Culture, and Identity
10. Multimodal Identity in Higher Education, An Identity+
Part III: Examples through Practice
11. Posthuman Pedagogy as a Relational and Multimodal Practice: In Conversation with Kay Sidebottom
12. Mapping and Counter-Mapping Pedagogies: In Conversation with Shibboleth Schechter
13. Graduate Employment Futures and Relational Employability: In Conversation with Elizabeth J. Cook
14. Using Images to Explore the Self as Self-Other and Troublesome Concepts in Higher Education: In Conversation with Denise MacGiollaRí
15. Pedagogy with Digital Artefacts, Materiality, and Social Media: In Conversation with Zoe Hurley
Index
Biography
Nataša Lacković is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK.
Alin Olteanu is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Publications Coordinator at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. This research centre is entirely funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.
"This book responds to some of the most pressing issues of our times in and for education. Although it is targeted towards higher education, the understated reach of this volume has implications for all ages and spheres of learning. Important messages concerning the relationality of all things in our contemporary world are artfully wrapped up in a relational membrane that invites age-old principles concerning ethics, self-other and social justice into the midst of rapid digital advancements and new forms of ‘otherness’ now entering the educational milieu (...) This is indeed a book for our times."
- Professor Jayne White, University of Canterbury
"Relational and Multimodal Higher Education urges its audience to think beyond the discipline and beyond the self as hitherto conceived. This book, with all its hopes, is also a sustained critique of the quotidian monologic tyranny that we encounter in late capitalism. While it is so multifariously regrettable that the academy, in its very institution, has become a key player and stakeholder in capitalist monologism, this book sees a way out."
Source: Cobley, P. (2025) Book review: Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu, Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives. Discourse & Society.
- Professor Emeritus Paul Cobley, Middlesex University
