PraSK seminar: Nina Bonderup Dohn

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Today, the PraSK (Practices, Skills, and Knowledge) seminar hosts professor in Learning and ICT at the department of Design and Communication, Nina Bonderup Dohn at Syddansk Universitet, who talks about "Designing for situated knowledge in a world of change." More informatation about her work can be found here.
What is knowledge and how is it situated? With three critical questions – "Why is this an interesting issue – and for whom?," "How is knowledge situated?," and "Education for whom, and why?" – as a backdrop, Bonderup Dohn discusses the nature of knowledge, learning, and the transfer of knowledge.
Inserted in the discussion are three slides on design-based research:
This run-through is followed by a Q&A slot with the following summarised topic(s) as its foundation:
The main issue is the transfer of knowledge: "How can students learn to put knowledge, developed in one context, to use in another context?" How do students understand the links between different subjects, for instance chemistry and maths? Professor Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta brings back the first question – "What is knowledge?" – and asks to what extent the view of knowledge indicated in Bonderup Dohn's presentation is eurocentric, whether it is more relational and pondering what the difference may indicate. Bonderup Dohn does not agree. Anders Buch asks whether Bonderup Dohn could draw on a more agnostic viewpoint regarding knowledge and she responds by outlining her own background in phenomenology and the ideas of Merleau-Ponty, indicating that this would imply turning her own world-view upside down.

Unfortunately, I was unable to stay to the end of the seminar, since I had to move on to my own teaching.

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