Pedagogy of the Digital Archive

Pedagogy of the Digital Archive reimagines Paulo Freire's concerns about education for an era shaped by artificial intelligence and a hegemonic digital archive. Tracing a line from the Library of Alexandria to today's virtual clouds, this book shows how the digital archive is not a neutral repository, but a powerful cultural tool that is already transforming the cognitive, affective, and ethical relationship between students and teachers. Written from a critical point of view, the book considers which perspectives count and influence the production of knowledge, and which perspectives are suppressed or silenced by artificial intelligence. It shows how, increasingly, the teacher-student relationship is mediated by machine learning that is informed by algorithmic technology, digital behaviourism, and surveillance capitalism. This book thus calls for a radical reflection on the way knowledge is produced, stored, and disseminated today, or a pedagogy for the digital archive, which proposes pedagogical practices based on the ethical and cognitive reconfiguration of the teacher-student relationship in the era of generative AI. Brilliantly original and tightly argued, this book is of interest to scholars, educators, and students in education, philosophy, sociology, psychology and anyone concerned with the ethical, social, and political dimensions of AI in learning.