1st Edition

Education Fiction Reimagining Teaching and Learning

Edited By Stefan Hrastinski Copyright 2027
246 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Education Fiction aims to inspire readers who are passionate about critically exploring possible futures of education and learning. This edited volume addresses key educational issues of our present and future through a collection of short stories. In today’s educational landscape, shaped by rapid AI developments, a climate crisis, and growing commercial interests, Education Fiction provides... Read more

Introduction Part A: Artificial Intelligence 1. Questions & Answers: AI and the Re-Turn to Our Students’ Humanity 2. The Shifting Narrative Around AI in Education 3. Writing the Pseudo Uni: Speculative Fiction as Catharsis, Critique, and (Accidental) Foresight Part B: Beyond Human Learning 4. Crafting Hopeful AI Futures for Education 5. Free to Choose More than Human Learning 6. The Professor and the Hologram: Student Visions of AI-Assisted Learning 7: Education Futures Beyond Learning: Toward Connexus Part C: Ruined Education 8. Old Ghosts, New Machines: How Current Trends in EdTech Could Haunt the Future of Education 9. On Learning, Loss, and The Remains of Wonder 10. Foundation (Models) and (Educational) Empire 11. EdTech Dreams in Bids, Metrics, and Precarity 12. Disruptive Laughter: A Dystopian Future Where Humor is Bureaucratized Part D: Hopeful Education 13. Speculation as Radical Present: Tending Hopeful Futures in Higher Education Pedagogy and Practice 14. Rethinking Assessment for Learning and Meaningful Societal Impact at Majestic Oak University 15. Re-storying Digitalization in Higher Education by Using Generative AI Part E: Beyond Education 16. Place of Wonder in Education 17. Listening to the Ecotones: Learning in the Wetland Classroom 18. Futures that Refuse to Perform: Learning and Technology after Collapse 19. Teaching, Learning, Managing, and Researching Otherwise

Biography

Stefan Hrastinski is Professor in the Department of Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.