The Alienation of Fact Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

• Main Author: Saltman, Kenneth J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Science funding & policy; Computer science; Education; digital privatization; education technology; politics of education; education policy; sociology of education; critical theory; critical pedagogy; neoliberalism and education; educational privatization; positivism
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An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency. Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of Fact e...