Volume 08 Issue 01 January 2025
1Ekeh, G. N., 2Onyebuchi, G. C., 3Ezeanolue, A. O., 4Abiakwu, O.F., 5Madu, K. O.
1,2,3,4,5Department of Educational Foundations, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka,Anambra State - Nigeria
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v8-i1-60Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the framework of education has spelt out a remarkable landmark in the history of educational revolution. Both in teaching-learning methodologies and management practice, AI is rapidly becoming a pivotal indispensability. Employing qualitative methods of conceptual frame, content analysis and literature review, this paper critically evaluates the significance of AI in learning and education management in the light of philosophy of education. The highlights of the paper include the concepts of AI, learning, education management, and philosophy of education. Philosophical perspectives and ethical considerations in implementing AI technology are also discussed. The capacity of AI to inform personalized learning, enhance intelligent learning, and facilitate data-driven decision making is critically examined. The paper, going forward, explores the transformational role of teachers amid the reality of the AI environmental permeation and centrality, with a focus on the need for teachers to be adequately equipped with requisite skills that promote critical thinking, creativity and innovation. In the process of the critical appraisal, it is discovered that AI has great potentials to engender harmonized and customized learning experiences. It is also discovered that it equally brings, in its wake, hordes of challenges and concerns with regard to the possibility of stripping the human face of education in terms of depersonalization, ethical concerns, danger of data privacy and algorithmic bias. On the basis of the findings, the paper recommends, among others, that stakeholders in education should adopt a balanced approach to the issue of AI in learning and education management. In this model of approach, AI is to be given an ancillary position as a source of information and knowledge in the process of education. In this way, AI will play a complementary role to the time-tested traditional values through which education strives to offer and achieve a comprehensive development of the learner. This will go a long way in addressing the challenges associated with AI, thereby harnessing its transformative potentials in learning and education management.
KEYWORDS:Artificial Intelligence, Education, Learning, Management, Philosophy of Education
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