Technology
AMAT’s objects can be summarised as empowering it to address issues concerning the support of human reproduction and the provision of education, including the research, publication and dissemination of literature about human reproduction.
But ideas such as ‘research’, ‘education’, ‘human’, and ‘reproduction’ are problematic in that they depend, in part, on how they are interpreted under modern technologically mediated conditions.
Knowledge concerning human reproduction, then, can no longer be explained under one domain (e.g., within a medical discourse). It is important, therefore, to keep the discussion of technologies on an agenda for critical debate, especially about how they will, and ought to, impact on education, on learning, teaching, and evaluation. Also on the very process of policy formation and therefore, their impact on the objects of AMAT.
Introductory Research Paper
View our introductory research paper that contextualises AMAT’s objectives within a space circumscribed by the discourses of technology, economics and culture, see AMAT, Technology & Human Reproduction.
The topic is further explored in a paper that follows the tradition of Heidegger in questioning technology; see The Question Concerning Educational Technology. Both papers are published on the AMAT website.
