Köksal Banoğlu

AI-informed student activisim beyond learnification AI is reshaping education worldwide, but could it also help to amplify student voices in leadership and activism?

“A spectre is haunting Europe” : AI-informed student activism ✊🏽
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I’m honoured to be editing this issue for Methodological Innovations. I’ll be sharing an introductory text for abstract submissions very soon. Spread the word, bring your groundbreaking #SNA research, and let’s push the field forward together!
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#RuralSchools #SchoolPrincipals #SNA #FriendshipMatters #OpenAccess

Curious about how principals connect in a rural district?

This study offers fresh and methodologically intriguing insights into district-wide principal networks and the role of friendship ties👇🏾

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Yeah I know AERA has a bigger network to connect with, but you know what? #UCEA feels like home! Now that the paper’s been accepted @ucea-leadership.bsky.social, it’s not too far off to start packing the bags for Puerto Rico ❤️ See you there folks ✌🏽

#HeedTheREAL

While the AI agenda seems trapped in a narrowing discourse of instructional possibilities, beyond the box, another AI is possible around child rights, student wellbeing, and democratic participation in K–12 schools!

Read, reflect, and spread the word please👇🏾
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I’m truly honoured to have been awarded the 2025 Best BELMAS Blog Runner-up.

I deeply appreciate the efforts of the @belmasoffice.bsky.social Editorial Group and the BELMAS Awards, Bursaries and Grants Committee for their thoughtful recognition.

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So proud to see this rising star shining bright! #HeedTheREAL

What if the trajectory of AI in education diverged from the dominant… | Köksal Banoğlu What if the trajectory of AI in education diverged from the dominant discourse of “learnification”, charting instead a constellation of untold futures centered on child rights, student activism, child...

AI will change something in education, but it may not be what many imagine 👇🏾

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Hi Bluesky!

Methodological Innovations is an international, open access journal and the principal venue for publishing peer-reviewed, social-research methods articles.

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Are you interested in the growing role of computer-based simulations in school leadership development? Then that's a must-read for you #HeedTheREAL

Exploring the Influence of Principals' Servant Leadership Characteristics on Teachers Job Satisfaction in the Government asecondary School of Hawassa City Administration Research in Educational Administration and Leadership | Early View

New in Early View at REAL: “Exploring the Influence of Principals’ Servant Leadership on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction”

A powerful qualitative study from Ethiopia, expanding the global lens on educational leadership.

#HeedTheREAL #ServantLeadership #Ethiopia

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A compelling read that reminds us of the urgent need to dechiffre how the private education sector subtly manipulates teachers into internalising blame for systemic failures they did not create!
Kudos to authors for giving voice a prevalent tension experienced in many private K-12 schools 👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿

If you be a nice kid, one day you can see the... No we need many more troublemakers indeed.
#TroublemakersWelcome #HeedTheREAL

Perhaps because of their self-assuredness in arguing without opposition, I quickly notice the inconsistencies in both kinds of monologue delivered by the moralising preacher and the impassioned academic ranter. [3/3]

Similarly, when I come across someone ranting uncontrollably and thus inconsistently between the lines of their writing about a historical or political era, most typically the Soviet Union, I feel much the same. [2/3]

For those who hold their convictions with ethical confidence, it’s often amusing to observe others loudly lamenting how the world has come to this point, echoing for me Nietzsche’s disdain for preachers. [1/3]

Per ardua ad astra 🚀 #HeedTheREAL

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into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."

[Letter from Huxley to Orwell, 1949]

It looks like you're on the verge of shattering this nightmare folks...

"Within the next generation, I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people...

The breaking news circilating in international media reminded me of Huxley's letter below—almost as if a generation has finally been awakening from that "narco-hypnosis" he so astutely warned Orwell about 👇🏽

Full text in Turkish and English (extended abstract): dergipark.org.tr/en/download/...

While the mutual interaction between instructional and technology leadership practices is evident, it remains understudied in terms of which specific dimensions drive this connection in principal behaviors. An exciting new research by my grad student explores these reciprocal relationship dynamics 👇🏽