The alienation of fact digital educational privatization, AI, and the false promise of bodies and numbers / Kenneth J. Saltman.
| Author/creator | Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022] |
| Description | xxiv, 200 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Alienation of Fact -- AI and the Digital Educational Privatization -- New Directions of Global Educational Privatization -- The Lego Foundation and the Quantification of Play -- Conspiracy Against Theory -- Trust in Numbers, Distrust in Experts -- "Privilege-Checking", "Virtue-Signaling", "Affinity Groups", and "Safe Spaces" -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "Saltman wrestles with the contradiction between the demand for radical empiricism ("data driven" everything) in contemporary education, and the flight from evidence in the enactment of policy and politics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022005023 |
| ISBN | 9780262544368 (Paperback) |
| ISBN | (PDF) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |