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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 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.
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Keywords
- Computer science
- Computing & information technology
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical theory
- digital privatization
- Education
- education policy
- education technology
- educational privatization
- Educational strategies & policy
- Mathematics & science
- neoliberalism and education
- Politics of education
- Positivism
- Science funding & policy
- Science: general issues
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology of Education
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDK Science funding and policy
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDM Scientific research
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science
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DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14387.001.0001Editions