AI and liberation pedagogy at tertiary-level English writing: Perceptions of teachers, students, and job holders

Abstract

Today, we are living in the age of AI where anything and everything is massively influenced by AI. In this case, the education system is also included as students, teachers and every stakeholder need to stay updated with all the advancement to practice it at a pedagogical level. As writing is an important productive skill and a great number of studies show that AI has a great influence on writing skill however, there is hardly any study which deals with the influence of AI on liberation pedagogy at tertiary level students’ English writing. Therefore, the researcher felt interested to explore the influence of AI on liberation pedagogy at tertiary level English writing in the context of Bangladesh. In this study, the researcher chose Paulo Freire's famous concept of liberation pedagogy as it goes well with the tertiary education system. This study will explore the influence of AI in liberation pedagogy at tertiary level English writing and the perceptions of students, teachers and English graduate job holders. This is qualitative study where data has been collected through classroom observation, semi structured interviews, and focus group discussion. The participants were university students and teachers from the English Department. Also graduates from the department of English who are currently doing writing related jobs where the researcher followed purposive sampling technique. After that, through thematic analysis of the data, the researcher sorted prominent themes and tried to explore the influence of AI on liberation pedagogy and the perceptions of students, teachers and also the impact of this in writing related job fields.