School Children and the Challenge of Managing Ai Technologies - Fostering a Critical Relationship Through Aesthetic Experiences

This edited volume recognises the need to cultivate a critical and acute understanding of AI technologies amongst primary and elementary school children, enabling them to meet the challenge of a human- and ethically oriented management of AI technologies.

List of contents

Introduction
Part 1. The relationship between new generations and AI technologies
1 The "compound" act of transformation: the case of AI
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3 Artificial Intelligence and new perspectives for teaching/learning processes
4 Leading engagement and learning in, out and between digital and non-digital environments. Hybrid-transitions as a space for children's agency
5 The dystopian threat of AI in primary education: looking towards a utopian postdigital ecopedagogy
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7 The challenges of managing AItech: new educational needs for new generations
Part 2. Fostering a critical relationship with AI technologies through aesthetic experiences
8 Aesthetic and techno-aesthetic experiences to educate school children in critical sensitivity and judgement
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11 Aesthetic experiences as a space of possibility
12 Towards a postmedia literacy: AI photographic filters, education, and self-representation
13 AI and robotics in education: catalysts and complexities
14 The use of artificial intelligence in various artistic researches on the problematization of physical space in relation to virtual space as a platformfor education
15 Educating through creativity with AI, with a view to the development of critical thinking
Part 3. Educational projects in primary school
16 The Child -AI R¿lationship: the CAIR¿ research project educational experience
17 International call for AI Ethics: children draft their Ethical Charter on AI
18. Aesthetic experiences and immersive virtual environments: the IVE4Thinking educational project
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20 The social robot Nao as an Intelligent Tutoring Robot: conducting the TCR test in primary schools

22 Designing an artificial intelligence curriculum for primary schooling
Conclusion. From experiences to educational practices: lead project for promoting a critical management of AItech

About the author

Emanuela Guarcello is Professor in Childhood and Primary Teachers Education, Department of Philosophy and Sciences of Education, University of Turin, Italy.
Abele Longo is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, Department of Education, Middlesex University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuela (University of Turin Guarcello
• Assisted by: Emanuela Guarcello (Editor), Longo Abele (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032694276
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269427-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; EDUCATION / General, Psychology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Moral & social purpose of education, Primary and middle schools, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education