Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care

Eamon Costello, Steve Welsh, Prajakta Girme, Fiona Concannon, Tom Farrelly, Clare Thomson

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    Abstract

    This article undertakes a critical appraisal of learning design and its relation to ethical ideas of care. We give an account of three personae of near future learning designers, developed using speculative methods, seeded with real-world data comprising job advertisements and validated with learning designers. The personae illustrate conflicts about the role of learning designers within the teaching and research missions of the academy and issues of care or lack thereof for these workers. The disembodied skills of learning designer job advertisements are contrasted with the bodies of (more than) real people that can suffer and care. We finish by contributing elements of a speculative job advertisement for a learning designer, who will help shape educational spaces of the near future by entangled care and unencumbered attentiveness.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)460-475
    Number of pages16
    JournalLearning, Media and Technology
    Volume48
    Issue number3
    Early online date12 May 2022
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2023

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