Uflewska, A. and Tordzro, G. K. (2024) Charting new horizons in lifelong education: planet-centred, peaceful and sustainable paradigms in the age of AI. In: Slade, B., Mayo, P. and Bogossian, T. (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill, pp. 191-211. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_012)
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Abstract
In an era marked by breath-taking advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and a rapidly evolving global landscape, the quest to create embracing lifelong education systems has never been more pressing. Indeed, we find ourselves at a pivotal juncture, confronting not only the transformative potential of AI, but also the enduring legacies of colonialism that continue to shape our educational institutions and praxes. This chapter serves as a compass in the voyage towards imagining lifelong education in a manner that transcends its challenging roots, questions the Western and non-Western colonial praxes, and embraces peaceful and sustainable ethical values. The chapter commences by defining the colonial matrix of power and recognising the historical entanglements of education systems with colonialism. We emphasise that these colonial legacies continue to cast a long shadow, impacting the learning environment, its structures, and participants. We also highlight the emerging role of AI on education, AI-Ed, whose potential to shift educational paradigms adds another layer of complexity. While offering unprecedented opportunities for personalised learning, global interconnectivity, and innovation, AI carries the risk of exacerbating existing colonial injustices, inequalities and biases. We argue that the ongoing AI transformation of education needs to extend beyond the boundaries of mere technical innovation and inclusivity, and needs to be grounded in a profound commitment to planet-centred, sustainable and peaceful vision(s) of knowledge and praxis for harmonious co-existence of all life species on planet Earth. In this context the fusion of AI with planet-centred, peaceful and sustainable ethical values becomes a vital consideration. To do so, we present the idea of seeds. Standing for smart educational ecosystems of dependence and support, seeds constitute a set of signposts aimed at the reconfiguration of current epistemological disbalances of power. Already sprouting around the globe, there are the signs of hope for creating non-discriminatory and embracing lifelong education systems that flourish beyond the colonial matrices of power.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Additional Information: | eISBN: 9789004692626 |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Tordzro, Dr Gameli Kodzo and Uflewska, Dr Agnieszka |
| Authors: | Uflewska, A., and Tordzro, G. K. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9789004692619 |
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