Digital citizenship, digital justice and the promise and perils of technological transformation
Bob will discuss the Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Digital Ethics in the Classroom and Beyond (TfDC) is large-scale research project housed within the ESRC Education Research Programme (2021-2026) directed by Professor Gemma Moss.
The project seeks to engage philosophers of digital ethics, software development corporations serving the education sector, schools and policy-makers in the four nations of the UK in discussions about how to furnish young people with a sense of agency and an understanding of data justice.
Bob will discuss the project’s ethnographic work with young people and their teachers with extended philosophical and moral deliberation on the rapid changes overtaking education in areas such as the pedagogical uses of digital technologies; the expansion of digital profiling and dataveillance; social media, privacy and learning; the coming of AI in schools.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in the implications of technology in education, citizenship, data justice and the philosophy of education more broadly.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online. Email Yuxin Su: stnvysu@ucl.ac.uk to attend online.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
About the Speaker
Professor Bob Davis
Professor of Religious and Cultural Education at the University of Glasgow
He is current Chair of the PESGB.
He has taught, written and broadcast widely on religion and education, moral education, the history of education, and the place of literature and the humanities in the modern curriculum.
