Food for thought: an analogy for digital sovereignty in education

Ruiz Garcia, Aurelio; Hernández-Leo, Davinia

Food for thought: an analogy for digital sovereignty in education

Citation

Ruiz-García A, Hernández-Leo D. Food for thought: an analogy for digital sovereignty in education. In: Rajala A, Cortez A, Hofmann R, Jornet A, LotzSisitka H, Markauskaite L, editors. 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2025; 2025 June 10-13; Helsinki, Finland. International Society of the Learning Sciences; 2025. p. 2538-40.

Abstract

Digital sovereignty (DS) in education refers to the educational community’s capacity to exercise self-governance over technology use, aligning it with educational goals. Many educators, with limited familiarity with critical digital literacy, struggle to represent technological issues using domain principles and values, restricting engagement with its ethical, environmental, and agency-focused principles. This paper proposes using food sovereignty principles as an analogy to foster abstract representations by linking DS to a familiar context.