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Critical studies of education and technology … reasons to be hopeful?
No full textThe past couple of decades have seen the steady rise of digital technologies as a prominent element of education around the world. Digital technologies are now a key feature of education provision in the global north from pre-schools through to tertiary and community education – touching the educational experiences of young children through to seniors. In these regions, education provision now increasingly takes place through platforms and other large systems - dependent on cloud providers and the data industry in ways that were scarcely imaginable a few years previously. At the same time, ed-tech continues to grow in prominence in global south regions as governments, NGOs, philanthropic and industry actors look to implement various digital education innovations to help low-income and middle-income countries address fundamental problems around failing teacher workforces and lack of universal basic education.
While there continues to be much practitioner enthusiasm, financial investment and commercial hype around such technological developments, we are currently living through particularly unsettled times for the use of digital technologies in education. The worldwide school shutdowns triggered by the COVID pandemic and subsequent periods of ‘emergency remote schooling’ at the beginning of the 2020s have since been renounced in a detailed UNESCO report as ‘an EdTech tragedy’. This has been followed by pronounced regulatory turns in many countries – from Ireland to Indonesia - against student use of smartphones and other digital devices, accompanied by e_orts in countries such as Denmark and France to curtail the educational reach of ‘big tech’ corporations. Now we are seeing growing public and practitioner concerns expressed around the dehumanising e_ects of AI-driven education, and the environmental burdens caused by the production, consumption and disposal of digital technologies.
These shifts have certainly been reflected in the changing nature of academic scholarship and research in the area of education and technology over the past few years. In particular, we are now seeing growing interest in what can be termed ‘critical studies of education and technology’ (CSET) – bringing together academics, researchers, teachers, writers and technologists with a shared interest in approaching tech use as a problematic. This is resulting in academic research and scholarship that is focused primarily on the politics of ed-tech, and producing accounts of power, control, inequalities and disadvantage associated with and/or arising from the presence of digital technologies in education. While critical accounts of education and technology have been developed over the past 40 years, the past few years have seen a sharp increase in the number of academic researchers taking this approach. All told, there is now a fast-growing academic literature o_ering critiques of education and technology – o_ering a timely counterpoint to the traditional ‘what works’ approaches to how digital technology might be used in education settings.
In light of the increased significance of this area of research it seems appropriate that we talk more openly about what it means to take a ‘critical’ approach to education and technology. Against this background, this brief report draws on the outcomes of 53 expert ‘CSET’ meetings that were coordinated and convened around the world between the 17th and 21st February 2025 (see Appendix A for further details of this process).
These meetings brought together over 500 individuals from across academic, research, educator policymaker and industry communities – all with a shared interest in ‘problematising education and technology’. Each meeting was asked to address the following four common questions:
(1) What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround ed-tech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?
(2) What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?
(3) What does the political economy of ed-tech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does ed-tech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?
(4) What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push- back and resistance against egregious forms of ed-tech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures
Critical studies of education and technology … reasons to be hopeful?
No full textThere is growing interest in critical studies of education and technology (CSET). This report summarises the view of hundreds of academics, researchers, teachers and others interested in critical ed-tech scholarship on the purposes and intended outcomes of their work.Non peer reviewe
Critical studies of education and technology … reasons to be hopeful?
No full textBackground The past couple of decades have seen the steady rise of digital technologies as a prominent element of education around the world. Digital technologies are now a key feature of education provision in the global north from pre-schools through to tertiary and community education – touching the educational experiences of young children through to seniors. In these regions, education provision now increasingly takes place through platforms and other large systems - dependent on cloud providers and the data industry in ways that were scarcely imaginable a few years previously. At the same time, ed-tech continues to grow in prominence in global south regions as governments, NGOs, philanthropic and industry actors look to implement various digital education innovations to help low-income and middle-income countries address fundamental problems around failing teacher workforces and lack of universal basic education. While there continues to be much practitioner enthusiasm, financial investment and commercial hype around such technological developments, we are currently living through particularly unsettled times for the use of digital technologies in education. The worldwide school shutdowns triggered by the COVID pandemic and subsequent periods of ‘emergency remote schooling’ at the beginning of the 2020s have since been renounced in a detailed UNESCO report as ‘an EdTech tragedy’. This has been followed by pronounced regulatory turns in many countries – from Ireland to Indonesia - against student use of smartphones and other digital devices, accompanied by efforts in countries such as Denmark and France to curtail the educational reach of ‘big tech’ corporations. Now we are seeing growing public and practitioner concerns expressed around the dehumanising effects of AI-driven education, and the environmental burdens caused by the production, consumption and disposal of digital technologies. These shifts have certainly been reflected in the changing nature of academic scholarship and research in the area of education and technology over the past few years. In particular, we are now seeing growing interest in what can be termed ‘critical studies of education and technology’ (CSET) – bringing together academics, researchers, teachers, writers and technologists with a shared interest in approaching tech use as a problematic. This is resulting in academic research and scholarship that is focused primarily on the politics of ed-tech, and producing accounts of power, control, inequalities and disadvantage associated with and/or arising from the presence of digital technologies in education. While critical accounts of education and technology have been developed over the past 40 years, the past few years have seen a sharp increase in the number of academic researchers taking this approach. All told, there is now a fast-growing academic literature offering critiques of education and technology – offering a timely counterpoint to the traditional ‘what works’ approaches to how digital technology might be used in education settings. In light of the increased significance of this area of research it seems appropriate that we talk more openly about what it means to take a ‘critical’ approach to education and technology. Against this background, this brief report draws on the outcomes of 53 expert ‘CSET’ meetings that were coordinated and convened around the world between the 17th and 21st February 2025 (see Appendix A for further details of this process). These meetings brought together over 500 individuals from across academic, research, educator policymaker and industry communities – all with a shared interest in ‘problematising education and technology’. Each meeting was asked to address the following four common questions: What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround ed-tech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions? What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality? What does the political economy of ed-tech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does ed-tech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’? What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local pushback and resistance against egregious forms of ed-tech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures? Meeting coordinators were invited to prepare and submit brief reports detailing their participants’ discussions around each of the four questions. This material is being used to prepare two separate synopsis reports – drawing together common themes, pointing to areas of divergence and generally bringing together an overview of what issues arose across the 53 meetings. First, is a report focusing on the first three questions – titled ‘Education and digital technology: an international overview of issues, problems and ways forward’. Second, the report that you are currently reading presents a synthesis of the discussions around the fourth of the meeting questions – what grounds for hope might there be amongst the many reasons to feel despondent and discouraged around the current state of education and technology? This fourth CSET question was intended as a provocation for academics, researchers, teachers and others working along ‘critical’ lines to reflect on the purposes and intended outcomes of their work. Critical scholarship is not simply an exercise in pointing out problems and raising difficult questions (although these are very important aspects of any critical piece of scholarship). Ultimately, critical scholarship needs to make a difference … so, what might this difference look like? How can critical studies of education and technology make the world a (slightly) better place?
Critical studies of education and technology … reasons to be hopeful?
No full textBackground The past couple of decades have seen the steady rise of digital technologies as a prominent element of education around the world. Digital technologies are now a key feature of education provision in the global north from pre-schools through to tertiary and community education – touching the educational experiences of young children through to seniors. In these regions, education provision now increasingly takes place through platforms and other large systems - dependent on cloud providers and the data industry in ways that were scarcely imaginable a few years previously. At the same time, ed-tech continues to grow in prominence in global south regions as governments, NGOs, philanthropic and industry actors look to implement various digital education innovations to help low-income and middle-income countries address fundamental problems around failing teacher workforces and lack of universal basic education. While there continues to be much practitioner enthusiasm, financial investment and commercial hype around such technological developments, we are currently living through particularly unsettled times for the use of digital technologies in education. The worldwide school shutdowns triggered by the COVID pandemic and subsequent periods of ‘emergency remote schooling’ at the beginning of the 2020s have since been renounced in a detailed UNESCO report as ‘an EdTech tragedy’. This has been followed by pronounced regulatory turns in many countries – from Ireland to Indonesia - against student use of smartphones and other digital devices, accompanied by efforts in countries such as Denmark and France to curtail the educational reach of ‘big tech’ corporations. Now we are seeing growing public and practitioner concerns expressed around the dehumanising effects of AI-driven education, and the environmental burdens caused by the production, consumption and disposal of digital technologies. These shifts have certainly been reflected in the changing nature of academic scholarship and research in the area of education and technology over the past few years. In particular, we are now seeing growing interest in what can be termed ‘critical studies of education and technology’ (CSET) – bringing together academics, researchers, teachers, writers and technologists with a shared interest in approaching tech use as a problematic. This is resulting in academic research and scholarship that is focused primarily on the politics of ed-tech, and producing accounts of power, control, inequalities and disadvantage associated with and/or arising from the presence of digital technologies in education. While critical accounts of education and technology have been developed over the past 40 years, the past few years have seen a sharp increase in the number of academic researchers taking this approach. All told, there is now a fast-growing academic literature offering critiques of education and technology – offering a timely counterpoint to the traditional ‘what works’ approaches to how digital technology might be used in education settings. In light of the increased significance of this area of research it seems appropriate that we talk more openly about what it means to take a ‘critical’ approach to education and technology. Against this background, this brief report draws on the outcomes of 53 expert ‘CSET’ meetings that were coordinated and convened around the world between the 17th and 21st February 2025 (see Appendix A for further details of this process). These meetings brought together over 500 individuals from across academic, research, educator policymaker and industry communities – all with a shared interest in ‘problematising education and technology’. Each meeting was asked to address the following four common questions: What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround ed-tech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions? What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality? What does the political economy of ed-tech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does ed-tech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’? What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local pushback and resistance against egregious forms of ed-tech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures? Meeting coordinators were invited to prepare and submit brief reports detailing their participants’ discussions around each of the four questions. This material is being used to prepare two separate synopsis reports – drawing together common themes, pointing to areas of divergence and generally bringing together an overview of what issues arose across the 53 meetings. First, is a report focusing on the first three questions – titled ‘Education and digital technology: an international overview of issues, problems and ways forward’. Second, the report that you are currently reading presents a synthesis of the discussions around the fourth of the meeting questions – what grounds for hope might there be amongst the many reasons to feel despondent and discouraged around the current state of education and technology? This fourth CSET question was intended as a provocation for academics, researchers, teachers and others working along ‘critical’ lines to reflect on the purposes and intended outcomes of their work. Critical scholarship is not simply an exercise in pointing out problems and raising difficult questions (although these are very important aspects of any critical piece of scholarship). Ultimately, critical scholarship needs to make a difference … so, what might this difference look like? How can critical studies of education and technology make the world a (slightly) better place?
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
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counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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