What values should be driving the EdTech of the future?

About this episode

Professor Arathi Sriprakash discusses reimagining edtech based on principles of reparation, sovereignty, care, and democratisation.

Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford) wants us to reimagine edtech along radically different lines. What might digital education look like if it was based around principles of reparation, sovereignty, care and democratisation? Accompanying reference >>> Sriprakash, A., Williamson, B., Facer, K., Pykett, J. & Valladares Celis, C. (2025) Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation, Oxford Review of Edu...

People in this episode

Host: Neil Selwyn

Guest: Arathi Sriprakash

Topics covered

• edtech
• digital education
• reparation
• sovereignty
• care
• democratisation

Keywords

• edtech
• digital education
• reparation
• sovereignty
• care
• democratisation
• future of education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oxford

Books & works: Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation

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