Inner Exploration Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Framework Centered on Learners' Inner Subjectivity
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: When AI makes answers easy to obtain, what should education help learners develop? This conceptual paper introduces Inner Exploration Education, centered on learners’ inner subjectivity and the principle “You are your own teacher.” It develops a five-stage path: returning to one’s center, generating awareness, knowing oneself, understanding others, and helping others return to themselves. The framework describes a learning ecology in which educators offer relational support, learners retain agency, and AI supports recording, reflection, questioning, and meaning construction. It proposes educational design principles and directions for subsequent empirical and cross-cultural research. Author: Lingyao | Independent ResearcherORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4516-5692ISNI: 0000 0005 3180 9600 This is a conceptual framework, not a report of empirically demonstrated effects.
Author: Lingyao
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225456887