Critical Studies of Education and Technology (CSET) - a compilation of local reports from the 2025 meetings

This document is a compilation of reports produced from 43 expert meetings that were coordinated and convened around the world between the 17^th and 21st February 2025. These meetings brought together hundreds of individuals from across academic, research, educator policymaker and industry communities – all with a common interest in ‘problematising education and technology’. Each meeting was asked to address the following four questions:

• What are the pressing issues, concerns, tensions and problems that surround EdTech in our locality? What questions do we need to ask, and what approaches will help us research these questions?
• What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and education in our locality?
• What does the political economy of EdTech look like in our region? What do local EdTech markets look like? How are global Big Tech corporations manifest in local education systems? What does EdTech policy look like, and which actors are driving policymaking? What do we find if we ‘follow the money’?
• What grounds for hope are there? Can we point to local instances of digital technology leading to genuine social benefits and empowerment? What local push-back and resistance against egregious forms of EdTech is evident? What alternate imaginaries are being circulated about education and digital futures?