Beyond the story

A three-lens analysis of education fiction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21785366
AutoresIosif Gidiotis (0000-0002-4905-8209, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, autor de correspondencia), Stefan Hrastinski (0000-0002-9984-6561, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Año2025
Páginas1-12
Fecha de publicación2025-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLearning Media and Technology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1743-9884 • E-ISSN: 1743-9892
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17439884.2025.2565251
OpenAlexW4414773397
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas41

Education fiction offers unique opportunities to creatively explore education futures, yet approaches for analysing such works remain limited. This paper proposes three interpretive lenses for analysing education fiction: alternative educational imaginaries, narrative and rhetorical mechanics, and critical value for educational scholarship and practice. Each lens is posed alongside guiding questions to support deeper and reflective reading. Applying the lenses to a worked example about artificial intelligence in education shows how literary form, persuasion, and implicit value claims generate practice-relevant insights, without prescribing a single final reading. The lenses aim to bridge speculative storytelling with educational scholarship, demonstrating education fiction’s potential not merely to imagine but to actively shape the future of educational research and practice

Discourse analysis · Higher education · Narrative · Qualitative research · Teaching method · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education