Abstract
We develop a project-based digital humanities pedagogy based on Don Ihde’s post-phenomenological analysis of the human/technology interface and Michael Polanyi’s heuristic model of skills which emphasizes the social practices of communities learning through apprenticeship projects to interiorize two kinds of technology (machine technology and mental/symbolic technology). First, we present a pedagogical theory for the digital classroom synthesizing Ihde’s theory of technology which entails replacing the view separating humans as subjects from technology as an inanimate object with a view of technologies as part of students’ relations with the world and Polanyi’s theory of skills which emphasizes social apprenticeship learning through the interiorizing of the two kinds of technology (machine and mental) made present in the digital humanities classroom. Second, we provide practical examples of the post-phenomenological pedagogy used in literature and critical thinking courses in Saudi Arabia. The study details how we use project-based assignments derived from students’ unique interpretation of course material against a backdrop of their identities and understanding of the world to allow students to interiorize the two kinds of technology (machine and literary/rhetorical) that form students’ relation with their world. Most importantly, these projects allow students an opportunity to use these technologies to create individualized expressions of their world. Students involved in the study are from both male and female campuses at a private university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where the promotion of autonomous and life-long learning is a priority for course design and administration.
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Melvin HallAssistant Professor, English, College of Humanities, Prince Sultan University Orchida Fayez Ismail
Leader of Research Group, Linguistics and Translation, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
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Digital Humanities, Project-Based Literary and Rhetorical Technology, Individualized Projects
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