Kalervo Gulson
Biographic Data
| ID | 759758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kalervo Gulson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kalervo |
| FAMILY NAME | Gulson |
| SIGNATURE | GULSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI, classification, and education
This paper explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping classificatory practices in education governance, with a focus on policy subjects such as teachers, students, policy makers, and school leaders. Drawing on Ian Hacking’s concept of ‘making up’ people, we examine whether AI alters the historical role of statistics in constructing policy subjects. We aim to answer two interrelated questions: One, how does AI contribute to the practices of…
Prototyping an Edtech Assessment Toolkit
New forms of facial recognition, aggression detection systems, bus routing optimization software, generative AI detection, and online exam proctoring: the edtech industry is rapidly increasing its influence over schools and universities by introducing new AI-powered products and services. As the ubiquity and complexity of AI systems intensifies, deliberation among practitioners about immediate and long-term risks is becoming ever more challenging…
Breaking or Repairing Long-Term Care for Older People
From robots to chatbots, AI technologies in care (nursing) homes have gained policymakers’ attention amid critical issues like staffing shortages. Concurrently, the long-term care sector has become a prime target for technologists due to its global market potential given the growing ageing population. Drawing conceptually on ideas of breakdown and repair, we explore socio-technical discourses of AI-based care for later life. We combine Bruno Lato…
Measured Education
Education has long been a space of in which knowledge was created through data practices. But the ongoing datafication and digitalisation has made new forms of datafied knowledge production within educational research possible. This new form of datafied knowledge creation has shifted the sites of expertise and the authority to create educational knowledge to a more-than-human network. This panel conceptually and empirically examines the possibili…
Fast policy
This paper discusses the theoretical and methodological contributions of 'Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism' by Peck and Theodore (2015, University of Minnesota Press). It does so by situating the book in the ongoing debate on policy borrowing and lending in the field of comparative education, of which I have been a part. Arguably it is the body of literature in education policy studies that relates directly …
Democracy, ‘sector-blindness’ and the delegitimation of dissent in neoliberal education policy
As a response to the 2013 special issue of Discourse on marketisation and equity in education, this paper suggests it is important to understand how school sectors (independent, Catholic and government) continue to play a significant role in how we constitute education, markets and equity in Australia. The first part of this paper provides a genealogy of school funding in Australia, giving an overview of how Australia has reached the current stat…
The neo-liberal education policies ofepimeleia heautou
The paper argues that neo-liberal education policy has capitalized on a historical concern to care for the self, or the Greek epimeleia heautou. We discuss epimeleia heautou in relation to education policies that emphasize greater choice in curriculum offerings, and in relation to school choice policies more generally. Thus, a premise of our argument is that school choice policies accommodate a much greater range of selves to be cared for. The an…
Indigenous People and Urbanization
A White Veneer
This paper explores how neo-liberal education policy change and urban renewal in inner Sydney and London has interacted with “raced” and classed educational identities. I draw on two examples of policy change, the Building the Future policy development in the inner city area of Sydney and the “Excellence in Cities” partnership programme in East London. The paper outlines, and applies, a spatial education policy sociology framework to explore the …
A White Veneer
This paper explores how neo-liberal education policy change and urban renewal in inner Sydney and London has interacted with “raced” and classed educational identities. I draw on two examples of policy change, the Building the Future policy development in the inner city area of Sydney and the “Excellence in Cities” partnership programme in East London. The paper outlines, and applies, a spatial education policy sociology framework to explore the …
The neo-liberal education policies ofepimeleia heautou
The paper argues that neo-liberal education policy has capitalized on a historical concern to care for the self, or the Greek epimeleia heautou. We discuss epimeleia heautou in relation to education policies that emphasize greater choice in curriculum offerings, and in relation to school choice policies more generally. Thus, a premise of our argument is that school choice policies accommodate a much greater range of selves to be cared for. The an…
Fast policy
This paper discusses the theoretical and methodological contributions of 'Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism' by Peck and Theodore (2015, University of Minnesota Press). It does so by situating the book in the ongoing debate on policy borrowing and lending in the field of comparative education, of which I have been a part. Arguably it is the body of literature in education policy studies that relates directly …
Indigenous People and Urbanization
A White Veneer
This paper explores how neo-liberal education policy change and urban renewal in inner Sydney and London has interacted with “raced” and classed educational identities. I draw on two examples of policy change, the Building the Future policy development in the inner city area of Sydney and the “Excellence in Cities” partnership programme in East London. The paper outlines, and applies, a spatial education policy sociology framework to explore the …
Indigenous People and Urbanization
Democracy, ‘sector-blindness’ and the delegitimation of dissent in neoliberal education policy
As a response to the 2013 special issue of Discourse on marketisation and equity in education, this paper suggests it is important to understand how school sectors (independent, Catholic and government) continue to play a significant role in how we constitute education, markets and equity in Australia. The first part of this paper provides a genealogy of school funding in Australia, giving an overview of how Australia has reached the current stat…
The neo-liberal education policies ofepimeleia heautou
The paper argues that neo-liberal education policy has capitalized on a historical concern to care for the self, or the Greek epimeleia heautou. We discuss epimeleia heautou in relation to education policies that emphasize greater choice in curriculum offerings, and in relation to school choice policies more generally. Thus, a premise of our argument is that school choice policies accommodate a much greater range of selves to be cared for. The an…
Fast policy
This paper discusses the theoretical and methodological contributions of 'Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism' by Peck and Theodore (2015, University of Minnesota Press). It does so by situating the book in the ongoing debate on policy borrowing and lending in the field of comparative education, of which I have been a part. Arguably it is the body of literature in education policy studies that relates directly …
Measured Education
Education has long been a space of in which knowledge was created through data practices. But the ongoing datafication and digitalisation has made new forms of datafied knowledge production within educational research possible. This new form of datafied knowledge creation has shifted the sites of expertise and the authority to create educational knowledge to a more-than-human network. This panel conceptually and empirically examines the possibili…
Prototyping an Edtech Assessment Toolkit
New forms of facial recognition, aggression detection systems, bus routing optimization software, generative AI detection, and online exam proctoring: the edtech industry is rapidly increasing its influence over schools and universities by introducing new AI-powered products and services. As the ubiquity and complexity of AI systems intensifies, deliberation among practitioners about immediate and long-term risks is becoming ever more challenging…
Breaking or Repairing Long-Term Care for Older People
From robots to chatbots, AI technologies in care (nursing) homes have gained policymakers’ attention amid critical issues like staffing shortages. Concurrently, the long-term care sector has become a prime target for technologists due to its global market potential given the growing ageing population. Drawing conceptually on ideas of breakdown and repair, we explore socio-technical discourses of AI-based care for later life. We combine Bruno Lato…
AI, classification, and education
This paper explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping classificatory practices in education governance, with a focus on policy subjects such as teachers, students, policy makers, and school leaders. Drawing on Ian Hacking’s concept of ‘making up’ people, we examine whether AI alters the historical role of statistics in constructing policy subjects. We aim to answer two interrelated questions: One, how does AI contribute to the practices of…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Education policy (2 works)