The Left Hand of Data by Matthew Berland - ISBN: 9780262547529
Paperback
Data can liberate learning, fostering creativity and justice, not conformity.

The Left Hand of Data

Designing Education Data for Justice

  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2024

Summary

A speculative framework that imagines how we can use education data to promote play, creativity, and social justice over normativity and conformity.

Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data, educational researchers Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia start from a different assumption—that outliers are, and must be treated as, valued individuals. Berland and Garcia argue that the aim of analytics should not be about e…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262547529
ISBN-10:026254752X
Author:Matthew Berland, Antero Garcia
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:28 May 2024
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Matthew Berland

Matthew Berland is Professor of Design, Informal, and Creative Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Affiliate Faculty in Information Studies, Computer Sciences, Educational Psychology, and Science/Technology Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America.

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