Sander Bax appointed Professor of Education and Culture

The Executive Board of Tilburg University has appointed Dr. Sander Bax as Professor of Education and Culture effective January 1, 2023. Bax will work on the influence of digital and global media culture on the development of culture and literature, on education in culture and literature and on educational design in general. In addition to his professorship, Bax will also serve as department chair of the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. Sander Bax: "The research that I would like to initiate from my chair focuses on the impact of media culture on the cultural field and on education. This means that research will be conducted into how writers, artists and other public intellectuals fashion themselves in what they do and what they make, and how they intervene with work and performance in public debates about social and political developments (in past and present)." In addition, the research will concern the effects of media culture on education. Our education is changing pervasively due to digitalization and globalization, and the Covid 19 pandemic has reinforced this. New technologies have enabled new forms of education, but have also revealed the value of the forms of education that already existed.