This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analysed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological and environmental.

NataSa Lackovic is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Alin Olteanu is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Publications Coordinator at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. This research centre is entirely funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.

Acknowledgments

Part I: Setting the Ground

1. Introducing Relational and Multimodal Higher Education

2. Learning from and with Everyday Connections

3. Educational Relationality through Meanings: A Semiotic Approach

Part II: A Postdigital Higher Education

4. Rethinking Higher Education through Social Relationality

5. Learning with More-than-Humans and Digital Media

6. How Does Learning Happen?

7. Developing Higher Education through the Environment and Others

8. Social, Material, and Digital Semiotics at Universities

9. Challenging One-Dimensional Literacy, Media Culture, and Identity

10. Multimodal Identity in Higher Education, An Identity+

Part III: Examples through Practice

11. Posthuman Pedagogy as a Relational and Multimodal Practice: In Conversation with Kay Sidebottom

12. Mapping and Counter-Mapping Pedagogies: In Conversation with Shibboleth Schechter

13. Graduate Employment Futures and Relational Employability: In Conversation with Elizabeth J. Cook

14. Using Images to Explore the Self as Self-Other and Troublesome Concepts in Higher Education: In Conversation with Denise MacGiollaRí

15. Pedagogy with Digital Artefacts, Materiality, and Social Media: In Conversation with Zoe Hurley

Index