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Lucas Cone is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the critical intersections between pedagogy, school life, education policy, and digital technologies, examining how society meets new generations through educational institutions. He explores questions about societal control over children's time, essential teaching and learning content, historical justifications for educational institutions, and how political and economic interests shape educational problems.
- PhD in Education Studies from Aarhus University (awarded October 2023)
- MA in Comparative Education and Sociology from University of California at Los Angeles (awarded June 2018)
Cone's research investigates how digital technologies and companies influence educational spaces, particularly when global tech companies become involved in public education offerings. His work emphasizes that how society manages its responsibility for education is not fixed but shaped by historical, material, and social conditions. He argues that the choice between teaching with books versus iPads matters not because humans are determined by their surroundings, but because human freedom is always shaped through interaction with the objects and relationships in pedagogical encounters.
His research output reveals consistent focus on digital transformation in education, privatization trends, and the impact of technology on teaching practices. The publications show increasing attention to emergency digitalization post-pandemic, platformization of educational spaces, and the market dynamics affecting teachers and students. His work spans multiple European contexts with particular focus on Danish educational settings.
Cone is actively engaged in academic discourse through numerous lectures, media appearances, and academic activities. His work has been referenced in policy sources, Wikipedia pages, and has significant attention on academic platforms like Mendeley.
- 49 total research outputs including journal articles, books, reports, and theses
- 26 academic activities including lectures, consultancy, and hosting visitors
- 31 media contributions across newspapers, podcasts, and interviews
His teaching and supervision cover history of education, education policy, critical perspectives on educational technologies, critical pedagogy, school life, ethnographic approaches, feminist and posthumanist theory, post-qualitative methods, and comparative international pedagogy. His research demonstrates consistent engagement with how digital technologies reshape educational spaces and power dynamics within them.
