The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice

by Antero García and Matthew Berland

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026254752X
• ISBN13: 9780262547529
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"