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

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Kenneth J. Saltman

The Alienation of Fact

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

Kenneth J. Saltman

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MIT Press
17 January 2023

Education

An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency.

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 explains the educational, technological, and ideological preconditions for these contemporary crises of truth and agency and explores the contradictions and competing visions for the future of education that lie at the center of the problem.

Schools are increasingly reimagined as businesses, and high-stakes standardized testing and curricula, for-profit charter schools, and the rise of educational AI put capital and technology at the center of education. Yet even as our society demands measure, data, and facts, politicians and news outlets regularly make unfounded assertions. How should we make sense of the contradictions between the demand for radical data-driven empiricism and the flight from evidence, argument, or theoretical justification?

In this critical investigation of the new digital directions of educational privatization-AI education, adaptive learning technology, biometrics, the quantification of play and social emotional learning-and the politics of the body, Saltman shows how the false certainty of bodies and numbers replaces deliberative and thoughtful agency in a time of increasing precarity. A distinctive contribution to scholarship on public school privatization and educational technology, politics, policy, pedagogy, and theory, The Alienation of Fact is a spirited call for democratic education that values creating a society of ""thinking people"" over capitalistic gains.

By: Kenneth J. Saltman
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262544368
ISBN 10: 0262544369
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 17 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kenneth J. Saltman is a professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His recent publications include Scripted Bodies- Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education; The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance; The Failure of Corporate School Reform; and Capitalizing on Disaster- Taking and Breaking Schools.