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Caroline Kuhn, Judith Pete, Juliana Raffaghelli

Published On

2023-10-25

Page Range

pp. 491–508

Language

  • English

Print Length

18 pages

21. Critical data literacies for good

Chapter of: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures(pp. 491–508)
This chapter offers an illustrative and generative example of a local social and pedagogical problem in a Global South context –students’ engagement with open data for coming up with a climate change solution– to reflect on the importance of understanding the nuance and complex nature of data literacy to transform different aspects of their social reality. This, in turn, opens up a discussion about how and why understanding the complexity of critical data literacy is the foundation of HE for Good.

Contributors

Caroline Kuhn

(author)
Senior Lecturer, School of Education at Bath Spa University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0393-6093
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/caroline-kuhn/

Caroline Kuhn came from Venezuela to Europe to pursue a PhD. Now a senior lecturer based at the School of Education in Bath Spa University (UK), her research focuses on the intersection of sociology, philosophy, technology, and education. She has a particular interest in open education and social justice framed under a critical pedagogy approach. She is also interested in issues of data justice and how technology can be meaningfully integrated into resource-constrained contexts so that different ways of knowing and being are respected, and agency is fostered.

Judith Pete

(author)
Regional Coordinator, Service Learning Hub for Africa at Tangaza University College
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0971-5945
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=kJPx3lsAAAAJ

Judith Pete has been an educator in higher education institutions in East Africa for 13 years. She was regional director for Africa for ROER4D and is currently Uniservitate regional coordinator for Service Learning Hub for Africa at Tangaza University College (Kenya). She holds a PhD from the Open University (Netherlands) and MBA from Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She won the 2021/22 Researcher of the Year Award and is a member of UNESCO University Network and alumnus of GO-GN.

Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli

(author)
Assistant Professor, Educational Research and Experimental Pedagogy at University of Padua
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-6478
https://jraffaghelli.com

Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli is an assistant professor in educational research and experimental pedagogy at the University of Padua (Italy). She actively practices the values of open science and education, exploring the impacts on educators’ professional identities. Juliana is also an associated researcher of the research group Edul@b (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) and associated researcher to the TIC-CIAFIC department at the Center for Research in Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology, National Commission of Science and Technology (Argentina).