Inclusive education in the age of AI: A critical perspective on policy guidelines through the lens of ecological-systemic theory of technological mediation

Titolo Rivista EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Autori/Curatori Valeria Cesaroni
Anno di pubblicazione 2025 Fascicolo 2024/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 13 P. 329-341 Dimensione file 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2024oa18453
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Given the recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence, this paper examines the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for educational systems, focusing on inclusion as a critical lens for understanding current political and theoretical trajectories in AI implementation in education. After providing an overview of the main soft policy documents developed by UNESCO in relation to AI and inclusion, the paper will highlight how the theoretical framework that emerges from these documents risks collapsing the theme of inclusion with that of integration and techno-solutionist views, which are inadequate both for understanding the socio-technical transformations driven by these technologies and for addressing the issue of inclusion. Subsequently, this paper employs the philosophical theory of technological mediation and a socio-technical analysis to examine the relationship between generative AI and human development, aiming to elucidate the connections among inclusion, social justice, and artificial intelligence.

Given the recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence, this paper examines the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for educational systems, focusing on inclusion as a critical lens for understanding current political and theoretical trajectories in AI implementation in education. After providing an overview of the main soft policy documents developed by UNESCO in relation to AI and inclusion, the paper will highlight how the theoretical framework that emerges from these documents risks collapsing the theme of inclusion with that of integration and techno-solutionist views, which are inadequate both for understanding the socio-technical transformations driven by these technologies and for addressing the issue of inclusion. Subsequently, this paper employs the philosophical theory of technological mediation and a socio-technical analysis to examine the relationship between generative AI and human development, aiming to elucidate the connections among inclusion, social justice, and artificial intelligence.

Parole chiave:; Inclusion; Artificial Intelligence; Ecological-Systemic Theory; Sociotechnical Theory; Post-phenomenology

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Valeria Cesaroni, Inclusive education in the age of AI: A critical perspective on policy guidelines through the lens of ecological-systemic theory of technological mediation in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2024, pp 329-341, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2024oa18453