Tinkered Thesis

Introduction Contemporary advancement in information technology informs educational systems, ranging from local schools to teacher education programs within universities and higher education. This reality creates expectations and requirements on teacher educators to be well versed in what is described as critical skills. To be able to handle and teach students to handle an ever-growing flow of information, often in the form of fragmented parts only loosely connected. General and generic abilities have grown in importance. These abilities include being able to express oneself both in writing and speech, to reflect and to critically evaluate information, to analyse knowledge claims and source material. There is also a more direct kind of firsthand technological knowledge relating to the use of digital tools, often being taught to teacher candidates (Adenling & Olsson, 2011).  Given the rise of new ai-driven information systems, machine learning and media technologies, such ...

There is important research on the topic of privatization of the education sector. Specifically, processes which can be described as concealed privatization and neoliberalization by proxy can be unveiled.  Two research articles map out how evolving forms of privatization and neoliberal ideological power finds new arenas within education, to control and commodify.   The first article studies the influence of private actors on the education of teachers in Sweden, by analyzing education policy mobility. (Player-Koro, Beach, 2017)    Privatization of state education, where education and education policy are targeted by educational (edu)-businesses and sold as “market solutions” (Ball, 2009), is explored in this article. Here, privatization is not understood as carried out by removing services out of state sector control but is instead conducted through a different kind of private collaboration with the public sector, selling solutions to specific problems or through sell...