Sažetak
Education researchers often focus on current practices or innovations, although they of course hope to contribute to a ‘better’ education in the future. Up to very recently, therefore, we knew surprisingly little about how researchers imagine the future of education. However, rapid technical developments and hypes such as ChatGPT (see Bozkurt et al. 2023; Jandrić 2023), increasing commercial interests in education, the climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and many other factors have brought about uncertainties leading to an increased interest in education futures. Special issues such as ‘Education and technology into the 2020s: speculative futures’ (Selwyn et al. 2020a), books such as Ross’ Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (2023), projects such as ‘Speculative social science fiction of digitalization in higher education: Towards a theory and practice of humanized digital future (2021–2025)’ (Suoranta et al. 2022), and a growing number of dedicated articles (e.g., Costello et al. 2020; Macgilchrist et al. 2020; Selwyn et al. 2020b), are just a few of many examples.
Ključne riječi
Researcher’s fiction; Academic fiction; Science fiction; Sci-Fi; Educational futures; Education fiction; Social science fiction;