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Michael Paulsen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of the Study of Culture.
His research focuses on the ontology and axiology of education. This includes questions like: What is education? How can education be understood? Why educate? What should education be about today? How should it proceed? How is it possible?
Currently he is working on developing a new understanding of education situated in the anthropocene. This include working with the following issues and areas:
- The anthropocene, trans- and posthumanism, new materialism, sustainability, world-understanding, ecology, the life-critical zone, the double entanglement
- Technologies, media, big data, cyborgs, hybridization, digitalization, media ecologies, potentialities, new assemblages
- Intercultural pedagogy, cultural regimes, democracy, public sphere, globalization, plurality, dialogue, collective learning, the culture-nature relation, being-togetherness
- Teaching, Bildung, becoming, innovation, wild pedagogies, emancipation, philosophical anthropology, reflection, values, nomadic spaces
He has led several collaborative research projects, including the DUFA project – on Digitalisation and Bildung in Danish upper secondary schools, together with Jesper Tække (2017-2019), the Innovation & Sustainability project – about innovation in the Danish upper secondary schools, together with Morten Ziethen (2014-2016), the Socio Media Education project – about using social media in school, together with Jesper Tække (2011-2014) and the Diversity project - about plurality and community in school, together with Steen Beck (2009-2011).
His publications include: Bildung through social media, Acting with and against Big Data, Digging into the Anthropocene, Distraction and digital media, The theory of the three waves, Bildung in the era of digital media, Hybridisation of education, Learning from the other. Also, it includes the books:
- Ziethen & Paulsen (2020). Dannelse i det antropocæne – kritik og nyorientering.
- Paulsen & Tække (2018-2019). Digitalt understøttet faglighed og almendannelse. Bog 1 og 2. forlaget Unge pædagoger.
- Hansen, Larsen & Paulsen (2019). Undervisning, dannelse og ungdomsliv. Syddansk Universitetsforlag.
- Paulsen & Tække (2016). Undervisningsfællesskaber og læringsnetværk i den digitale tidsalder. Forlaget Unge pædagoger.
- Beck, Kaspersen & Paulsen (2014). Klassisk og moderne læringsteori. Hans Reitzels forlag.
- Paulsen & Tække (2013). Sociale medier i gymnasiet: mellem forbud og ligegyldighed. Forlaget Unge pædagoger.
- Paulsen & Servan (2013). Terra Nullius: utopier i et hav af kultursammenstød. Aalborg Universitetsforlag.
- Paulsen & Klausen (2013). Innovation og læring: i filosofisk og kritisk perspektiv. Aalborg Universitetsforlag.
- Paulsen et. al (2011). Learning from the other. NSU Press.
Michael Paulsen has worked as an associate professor in applied philosophy at Aalborg University, the department of Learning & Philosophy from 2012-2016, where he also was chair of the Applied Philosophy Study Board. Before that he was an assistant and later associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark from 2006-2012. He completed an MA in social philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark, and a PhD in Philosophy, also Aalborg University. From 2017-2020 he has also been co-coordinator of the Nordic University Study Circle “Learning & Bildung in time of globalisation”.
Research areas
- General Theories of Teaching
- Theories of Bildung
- History of Pedagogical Ideas and Institutions
- Secondary Education
- Democracy
- Welfare State Reforms
- Internet
- Innovation Strategies
- Ecological networks and interactions
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Research Output 2001 2019
Acting with and against Big Data in School and Society: the Big Questions of Big Data
Paulsen, M. & Tække, J., 2019. 30 p.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper › Research
Bildung through social media
Paulsen, M. & Tække, J., 2019, In : Netcom. 33, 1/2Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Digging into the Anthropocene: finding way to a cautious educational practice
Paulsen, M., 2019, p. 1-24.Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper › Research › peer-review
Digitalt understøttet faglighed og almendannelse: Bog 2: analyser og indblik
Paulsen, M. & Tække, J., 2019, Unge Pædagoger. 250 p. (Undervisning og medialisering; No. 4).Research output: Book/anthology/thesis/report › Book › Research › peer-review
Distraction and digital media: Multiplexing, not multitasking in the classroom
Tække, J. & Paulsen, M., 2019, In : Læring og Medier (LOM). 21, 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities 2006 2019
Ninth Conference on Pragmatic constructivism and Actor-Reality Construction
Camilla Kølsen Petersen (Organizer), Michael Paulsen (Organizer), Hanne Nørreklit (Organizer)Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation
Projekt: Pædagogisk brug af it i undervisningen
Michael Paulsen (Guest lecturer)Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lectures, external teaching and course activities at other universities
Projekt om lærings og arbejdsformer i gymnasiet
Michael Paulsen (Participant)Activity: Other activities › Other
Udviklingsprojekt om kursisters forskellige tilgange til skolelivet
Michael Paulsen (Participant)Activity: Other activities › Other
Evaluering af projektet Innovationskraft og entreprenørskab på gymnasier i Region Hovedstaden
Michael Paulsen (Participant)Activity: Other activities › Other
Projects 2019 2019
- 1 Active
UN World Goal Workgroup
Balslev, G. M., Hansen, P. K., Levinsen, C. B., Grønning, A., Wolsing, P., Paulsen, M., Binzer, D. & Elf, N. F.
04/10/2019 → …
Project: Other
Press / Media
Til forsvar for 23.000 Chromebooks i Aarhus Kommune
06/11/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Det er gymnasieskolens privilegium at åbne nye og ukendte verdener for eleverne
05/09/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Læreruddannelse mellem refleksions- og lidenskabssyge
28/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Teaching & Supervision
Kommunikationsteori og interkulturel pædagogik
Vibeke Christensen & Michael Paulsen 01/02/2019 → 31/05/2019 |
Course: Teaching and supervision › Teaching