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How teachers understand their responsibilities for ChatGPT use in public schools
Greinacher, Philipp (2024) How teachers understand their responsibilities for ChatGPT use in public schools.
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| Abstract: | ChatGPT’s impact on schools leads to real-world problem for society and for educators. In response to the current lack of insights into teachers’ experiences and their sense-making, this thesis investigated how teachers understand their responsibilities in relation to ChatGPT-use in public schools and what this implies for the conception of responsibility in relation to ChatGPT. Through an IPA-based appropriation study, I identified themes of existential importance for the participating teachers: a lack of time and capacity; the ambivalent impact of ChatGPT-use pupils’ independence; and divides among teachers. Against these backdrops, the study revealed ongoing hermeneutic efforts of teachers to appropriate ChatGPT and its ambivalent effects on teaching and learning practices. The interpretation of the findings showed how senses of responsibilities emerge from the interrelations between teachers, ChatGPT-use and its presence, and their socio-cultural lifeworld. This disclosed that the participants’ hermeneutic processes and the development of related dispositions depend on factors like shifting social relations, the conditions for collaboration, the recognition of personal and systemic limitations, and political recognition and support. I concluded by discussing possibilities to address the societal challenges associated with the development of responsible relations to AI technologies like ChatGPT through further research. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 08 philosophy, 73 cultural anthropology, 77 psychology, 80 pedagogy, 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc (60024) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/103050 |
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