Higher education

Sociology

Sociology of Education

Determinism

Instrumentalism

Pure mathematics

Transdisciplinarity

Mathematics

Social science

Economic growth

Technological determinism

Operating system

Epistemology

Engineering

Philosophy

Political science

Economics

Multidisciplinary approach

Philosophy of education

Ontology

Convergence (economics)

Theme (computing)

Educational research

Computer science

Field (mathematics)

Education theory

Engineering ethics

Policy Futures in Education

This article develops a post-determinist and a post-instrumentalist understanding of education and educational research through the lens of postdigital theory. We begin with historicizing current postdigital research by showing its intellectual ancestry and recognizing its rapidly changing nature. We move on to current state of the art, which we present in three wide themes. The first theme is the great convergence of various lower-level techno-scientific convergences, such as analogue–digital, physics–biology, and biology–information, which results in new epistemologies, ontologies and practices. The second theme is some consequences of the great convergence for education and pedagogy, which result in new postdigital ecopedagogies. The third theme is postdigital research, which is reconfigured by the great convergence towards a closer collaboration between traditional scientific fields and disciplines. We briefly outline four such reconfigurations (multidisciplinary, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and antidisciplinarity) and their implications. The article concludes with a brief list of directions for future work in the field.

The postdigital turn: Philosophy, education, research