Education is often presented as the transmission of knowledge. Yet Hannah Arendt’s ideas of plurality and natality point us toward a richer promise.

Plurality reminds us that education always involves the meeting of diverse perspectives. Natality highlights that each new generation brings the possibility of new beginnings. Together they suggest that education is not only about continuity but also about creating conditions for renewal.

In a time when digital platforms and institutional pressures often move us toward uniformity, how can online learning preserve openness to plurality and to the unexpected promise of renewal?

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EdTech, Critical Pedagogy, Digital Education, Philosophy of Education

What kind of person does EdTech imagine when it speaks of the "autonomous learner"?

This post explores how the dominant model of autonomy in digital education often reflects an individualised, self-managing ideal rooted in what Charles Taylor calls the "buffered self." It questions what is lost when we strip autonomy of its relational and ethical dimensions.

Can we imagine a richer form of autonomy - one that foregrounds co-creation, dialogue, and critical agency?

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A retro-futuristic figure sits at a glowing control panel surrounded by abstract data screens and holographic profiles, evoking themes of autonomy, surveillance, and digital identity in education.

What if educational autonomy was not about self-managing learning tasks, but about becoming a subject capable of critical thought, reflection, and agency?

Too often, online education reduces autonomy to individualised control over pace and content. My latest blog post argues for reclaiming autonomy as a central educational aim - not a system feature.

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A faceless figure stands before a cosmic backdrop with a glowing sun, geometric networks, and floating shapes, evoking a surreal vision of thought, space, and digital interconnectedness.

What if the challenge in digital education is not about the technology, but about our failure to imagine education differently?

In this new post, I explore how Cornelius Castoriadis’ concept of radical imagination helps us question the institutional forms we often take for granted. Platforms, data, and automation are not neutral. They reflect and reinforce particular logics. Education can be otherwise.

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