Toward a Critical Race Technology Theory in Education: Interrogating Sociotechnical Racism in Educational Research, Pedagogy, and Practice

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Race Technologies, Digital Media Pedagogies, and Online Education (Table 19)

Abstract

The field of education is increasingly becoming entrenched with sociotechnical systems, whether through the adoption of educational technologies, the implementation of school-based surveillance systems, or the shift to digital research contexts. It is inarguable that technology now plays an indispensable role in educational research, pedagogy and practice. Yet the field lacks a theoretical framework that can interrogate the material and discursive consequences of using, implementing, designing and/or researching digital technologies in race-evasive and techno-chauvinist ways. This work offers critical race technology theory (CRTT) in education as a theoretical framework that enables scholars to conduct techno-structural examinations of digital systems in ways that expose and disrupt anti-Blackness as the ‘default setting’ of digital information systems.

Author

• Tiera C. Tanksley, University of Colorado - Boulder
  Presenting Author