Imaginaries and problematisations

A heuristic lens in the age of artificial intelligence in education

Bibliographic Data

ID21297595
AuthorsLina Rahm (0000-0002-0410-8241, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden), Jörgen Rahm‐skågeby (0000-0003-2053-0933, Department of Media Studies Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume54
Issue5
Pages1147-1159
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Educational Technology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1013 • E-ISSN: 1467-8535
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/bjet.13319
OpenAlexW4361269404
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited49

This paper suggests that artificial intelligence in education (AIEd) can be fruitfully analysed as ‘policies frozen in silicon’. This means that they exist as both materialised and proposed problematisations (problem representations with corresponding solutions). As a theoretical and analytical response, this paper puts forward a heuristic lens that can provide insights into how AI technologies (or advocated AI technologies) function as proposed solutions to certain problematisations based on various imaginaries about how education and learning are best performed or supported. The combined reading of imaginaries and problematisations can thereby aid in our understanding of why and how visions of learning and education are framed in relation to AIEd developments. The overall ambition is to advance theoretical and analytical approaches towards an educational system which is (anticipated as) increasingly permeated by AI systems—systems that also support and implement, more or less, invisible models, standards and assessments of learning, as well as more grand visions of (technology‐augmented) education in society. Practitioner notes

Epistemology · Exposition (narrative) · Frame (networking) · Function (biology) · Heuristic · Management science · Mathematics education · Point (geometry) · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · Vision · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Education and Society · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology

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