Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli
Is Data Literacy a Catalyst of Social Justice? A Response from Nine Data Literacy Initiatives in Higher Education
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
education specifically data literacy initiatives higher education appropriate instrument promote social justice context datafication education center debate achievement social justice desirable quality human society however type educational interventions promoted deal complex multilayered emergent problem case datafication society since problem heavily entrenched shifting socioeconomic model called surveillance capitalism technological infrastructures connected educational approaches could diversified even contradictory purpose heralding skills live datafied society paper explores nine initiatives higher education aimed developing literacies deal data society efforts concentrated promoting freedom choice awareness agency though original intention promoting social justice analysis carried theoretical basis provided martha nussbaum social justice initiatives span educational activities open data open educational resources formal data literacy activities educational engagement students data students personal educational data emerges still fragmented panorama responding need promoting social justice context datafication given fragmentation article provides conceptual scheme address pedagogical reflection practice aim supporting social justice datafication