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37 - Education and the Technological Horizon

from Part III - Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

By
Paul Farber
Edited by
Sheron Fraser-Burgess ,
Jessica Heybach  and
Dini Metro-Roland
Sheron Fraser-Burgess
Affiliation:
Ball State University, Indiana
Jessica Heybach
Affiliation:
Florida International University
Dini Metro-Roland
Affiliation:
Western Michigan University
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the accelerating pace and unprecedented reach of technological innovation. Ethical issues, evident, for example, in the impacts of social media and the burgeoning applications of artificial intelligence, raise questions as to how technological advances align with and alter human values and ways of life. Education is pivotal where such questions are concerned, but its role may be constrained by technologically amplified forms of cultural and temporal parochialism, and technologically enhanced efforts optimize education in terms of narrowly configured outcomes aligned with prevailing forms of meritocratic order. Alternatively, evolving forms of educational practice may provide, in the form of ethically responsive, intergenerational practical deliberation, a counterweight to the cascading social and cultural influence of emerging technology.

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technologyartificial intelligenceparochialismoptimizationattentionteaching
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The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education , pp. 777 - 796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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