27.05.2025 München / Online
Embedded ethics in the sphere of education:
The case of the Dutch National Education Lab AI (NOLAI)
Time: Tuesday 27 May at 16:30-18:00 CET (Germany)
Venue: Hybrid session, external guests are welcome to join online via Zoom
Organised by: TU Munich Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine (IHEM)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marthe Stevens, Assistant Professor Digitalization and Society, Leader Ethics Team at NOLAI, Radboud University, the Netherlands.
The Dutch National Education Lab AI (NOLAI) is a ten-year initiative funded by the Dutch government that seeks to enhance primary and secondary education in the Netherlands through the development of AI technologies tailored specifically for the educational sector (NOLAI, 2023). Within this initiative, the ethics team plays a central role in identifying, anticipating, and addressing ethical issues related to AI development, while supporting stakeholders across the educational landscape.
The work of the ethics team is informed by embedded ethics approaches developed in other domains, particularly computer science education (Grosz et al., 2019; ) and healthcare (McLennan et al., 2022; Tigard et al., 2023). In this presentation, I will reflect on the applicability and translation of embedded ethics approaches to the field of education. I will also introduce the theoretical framework of sphere transgressions (Sharon, 2021a; 2021b; Stevens et al., 2024), which we use within NOLAI as a foundation for our normative analyses. This framework enables us to critically assess whether core educational values risk being displaced by (digital) values that accompany AI.
If you would like to attend online, please use the following Zoom dial-in info:
Meeting-ID: 630 6241 2184
Code: 536634
Please register before May 26 by sending an email to marie-christine.fritzsche@tum.de.