Category Archives: Writing

The Lecture is Dead; Long live the Lecture!

Posted on December 7, 2016 by friesenn

Recent interview with Dr. Chris Haskell, Boise State University.

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New Book: Media Transatlantic!

Posted on June 1, 2016 by friesenn

I have a new book out as of the end of May. It’s published by Springer and titled Media Transatlantic: Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe. Here’s the blurb: This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical … Continue reading →

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Response Chapter: Is Education the New Philosophy?

Posted on April 19, 2014 by friesenn

This chapter has recently appeared in the Companion to Educational Research from Springer. It articulates response to recent and ambitious attempts to present education or “learning” as some kind of unified “science.” Specifically, it presents a critique of Mary Kalantzis … Continue reading →

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Paradigm shifts and Educational Forms: A Textbook Case

Posted on November 18, 2013 by friesenn

This article just appeared in “Online First” for AERA’s Educational Researcher. It is intended as a kind of ‘sequel” to my study of the “transmedial history”of the lecture, which was published in the same journal in 2011. Both articles look … Continue reading →

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Bernhard Waldenfels: Responsivity and Tele-absence

Posted on September 6, 2013 by friesenn

Two things regarding the contemporary German phenomenologist, Bernhard Waldenfels (pictured, right, with his wife Christine on his way to a Merleau-Ponty seminar in 1961): I’ve tracked down a hard-to-find piece by Waldenfels in which he explains one of the main … Continue reading →

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"Problems with Identity" – Chapter from Forgotten Connections

Posted on August 23, 2013 by friesenn

In the final chapter on identity, Mollenhauer embarks on what I believe is a tour-de-force conclusion to his book Forgotten Connections. Building on Sartre and others, Mollenhauer defines identity as our often challenging relationship with ourselves, and illustrates the characteristics of … Continue reading →

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Education, Media and the End of the Book –a view from German media theory

Posted on August 1, 2013 by friesenn

Just finished a draft of this paper with Rainer Leschke. It incorporates a number of concepts and references familiar in German media studies (Medienwissenschaften), including notions of a Leitmedium, of Medienvergessenheit and media-systems. But these aren’t all necessarily German. One of these … Continue reading →

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Klaus Mollenhauer’s Hermeneutics

Posted on June 29, 2013 by friesenn

… and his refusal of descriptive phenomenology [slideshare id=23613926&doc=mollenhauersrefusal-130628061753-phpapp02] Audio/slides for a presentation I recently gave at a conference on education and phenomenology at the Humboldt University, Berliln. Here’s the full text. In this presentation, I undertake an informal reconstruction … Continue reading →

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Learning Analytics: Where's it been & where it's going

Posted on May 26, 2013 by friesenn

Been working on a paper on still-emerging field and technology of learning analytics. Although last year’s Horizon Report gave it a “time-to-adoption horizon” of 2-3 years, it still has a way to go before there are products and findings that … Continue reading →

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Special Issue of CJLT on Philosophy & Education

Posted on April 8, 2013 by friesenn

A special issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie co-edited by Erika Smith and myself, is out. This issue has some great papers, including a short editorial by Andrew Feenberg, an excellent … Continue reading →

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