Hybrid Pedagogy is not ideologically neutral. The threads of our discussions and the underlying philosophy of the journal are grounded in critical pedagogy — an approach to teaching and learning predicated on fostering agency and empowering learners (implicitly and explicitly critiquing oppressive power structures). As a digital journal, our work is further nuanced by a consideration of technologies and cultures — how the digital changes the way we work, think, and create, and how we as humans can use tools (like chalkboards and computers) to form critically engaged communities.

We are issuing this call for participation for articles on critical digital pedagogy. Submissions should help to map (or represent) the terrain of the field, while considering the following questions:

1. How can digital technologies and cultures interrogate and/or deconstruct the roles of student and teacher?

2. How does critical pedagogy change the way we see teachers and students as socially, economically, politically, and emotionally situated in a learning space? How is this changed in the wake of online and hybrid education?

3. What must we know about existing and invisible obstacles to learner agency in order to disrupt them?

4. What is the role of interactivity, engagement, and critical contribution in the digital or digitally-enhanced classroom?

5. How can we make something valuable — something ethical — from the collective intelligence of the web, and not merely be swept along by its numbing flow?

6. How do we make our classrooms sites of intrinsic motivation, networked learning, and critical practice?

7. How can the work of writers and educators like Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Henry Giroux, and John Dewey help us navigate our new educational terrain? And how are educators like Cathy Davidson and Howard Rheingold helping to further reimagine learning that happens in digital space.

8. What is digital agency? What are its incumbent privileges and responsibilities?

Articles should be approximately 1,000 – 2,500 words and work in some way toward the purpose of this call. We also encourage multimedia experimentation. This is a rolling call, so we will accept submissions starting immediately with a deadline of July 15, 2014.  See full details here