quote from Alan Bainbridge

We quote the first paragraph of conclusions from Digital Technology, Human Word Making and the Avoidance of Learning by Bainbridge. paper

“Psychoanalysis teaches us that learning is a complex and difficult process, influenced by defence mechanisms that protect the individual from the anxiety inherent in confronting new knowledge. The use of technology in HE can therefore be located within a discourse of psychological defences, where the teacher and learner, influenced by an unconscious ‘passion for ignorance’ and simplistic split thinking, are seduced to avoid engaging with the difficulties and anxieties associated with learning. Instead, the seduction leads to fetish-like confused attempts to find satisfaction in learning mediated by digital technologies. Unfortunately, this technological product of human world making, with its own logic, ultimately confronts and maintains the damaging disruption of the dialogical holding environment relationship.”

Editor's note: I have separated the quotation from the reference and made the latter the introduction to the page. I also replaced the 'code' item with normal 'paragraph' items. Code is offered as a possible format that can be clicked accidentally. Code itself is of most use to programmers writing about their work.