CSET 2025 – Critical studies of education and technology: an invitation to connect

Date: 17.02.2025 - 21.02.2025
Other event
Format: flexible
Event Fee: Free

Organizer(s):
Neil Selwyn - Monash University

Researchers from around the world are invited to organise and run local academic meetings around the common theme: ‘Problematising education and digital technology’. All these events will take place during the same week (between February 17th and 21st, week 8 of 2025), with exact scheduling to be determined by each local coordinators to best fit their context. The specific nature and form of these meetings can be determined by the local coordinators. For example, these meetings might be fully face-to-face, fully online, or hybrid. These meetings might last for a couple of hours, or over the course of a full day. These meetings might take the form of roundtable discussions, plenary discussions, short papers, Pecha Kucha presentations or any other suitable academic meeting format. The aim is for people to get together in ways that *do not* involve excessive cost, unnecessary travel and unsociable timings. These meetings will all be based around four common themes, addressed in the form of the following questions: #1. What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech 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 EdTech 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 EdTech 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 EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures? Where possible these local meetings will be recorded, and participants invited to co-produce a brief summary around the four common headline questions. These summaries will be collated, and an open-access report will be produced from this material. We hope that various groups and collectives will come together in different cities and regions – drawing in researchers from multiple universities as well as independent/non-affiliated scholars residing in the region. Local coordinators will be responsible for: Organising and running their local meeting in February 2025 Coordinating the co-production of a brief summary of headline results from their meeting We hope these sessions will establish a loose network of groups that can begin to make lasting connections and develop a sense of intellectual community. As such, we will ensure that contact details are shared between all groups in order for further international collaborations to develop. We also want to follow these February meetings up with a face-to-face event sometime in June 2025 (hopefully in Oxford or London, UK) to bring together representatives from as many of these local groups as possible. If you want to volunteer to act as the named coordinator for a local session, then please email Neil Selwyn – neil.selwyn@monash.edu ** Confirmed meetings so far … Augsburg, Ballarat, Basel, Bergen, Brisbane, Bristol, Buenos Aires (I), Buenos Aires (II), Chicago, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dublin (II), Eastern Cape, Edinburgh, Florianópolis, Gothenburg, London (I), London (II), Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, New York City, Norwich, Oldenburg, Paris, Perugia, Purdue, Rio de Janeiro, Thessaloniki, Wagga Wagga, Wolverhampton.

https://criticaledtech.com/2024/07/26/cset-2025-critical-studies-of-education-and-technology-an-invitation-to-connect/

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