Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
37 - Education and the Technological Horizon
from Part III - Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
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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