Küçükuncular, Ahmet (ed.): Teacher Alienation in the AI Era

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly entangled with teachers’ daily labor – from learning management systems and adaptive platforms to generative assistants and algorithmic evaluations. Drawing on Marx’s theory of alienation and labor process theory, this chapter examines how AI reconfigures teachers’ autonomy, authorship, practical wisdom, and relations with students and institutions. I develop an analytic framework that maps four forms of alienation (from product, process, others, and