51.063 - Education and Technological Unemployment: Dilemmas and Possibilities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While there is a growing empirical and theoretical literature in the social sciences and humanities that examines emergent patterns of automation and employment, the role of education in a world of accelerating automation remains underexplored and undertheorized. This symposium begins to fill this gap and features papers from a forthcoming edited collection in press with Springer that examines education and technological unemployment. The symposium is particularly focused on bringing to light and scrutinizing economic, social, epistemological, and political dilemmas and possibilities for educational change presented by automation and the changing dynamics of work in the digital age.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools and Education

Chair

• David W. Hursh, University of Rochester

Papers

• Education and Technological Unemployment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Michael Peters, Beijing Normal University

• Education, Technology, and Post-Work Policy Imaginaries - Alexander Means, University of Hawaii at Manoa

• What Is Wrong With Educationalizing Technological Unemployment? - Petar Jandric, Polytechnic of Zagreb

• Is Entrepreneurial Education the Solution to the Automation Revolution? - Chris Arthur, York University

• Transdisciplinary Engagement With Enforced Dependency: Addressing Crises in Employment, Sustainability, and Democracy in Technological Society - Tina Lynn Evans, Colorado Mountain College

Discussant

• Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth