To Give: Ethically Storying Data

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Title: To Give: Ethically Storying Data
Language: English
Authors: Louise Gwenneth Phillips, M. Obaidul Hamid, Vicente Reyes, Ian Hardy
Source: Educational Review. 2024 76(7):1857-1874.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Researchers, Data, Data Use, Story Telling, Ethics, Personal Narratives, Humanization, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom (England), Australia, Singapore, Bangladesh
DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2023.2293453
ISSN: 0013-1911
1465-3397
Abstract: We live in a data-driven world. The voluminous scale of data gathered can lead to diminished consciousness of ethics whilst economic interests are prioritised. Across recent decades education has come to be heavily data driven and datafied. We have witnessed the dehumanising and increased labour impacts of school datafication. In search for alternatives, we wonder about the role and hope of story. We look to the etymological roots of data to see how a relationship with story may work to foreground ethicality, through attention to positionality, values, presence, representation and form. As education researchers of differing socio-cultural backgrounds, we bring diverse illustrations of how these five considerations feature in our research with educational data and trouble the politics of education data in a post-truth world. To further resonate a merging of story with data for ethical research, we apply Derrida's metonymic logos: "cinders there are", reminding us of the traces of life in data. We close with questions to inform ethical consciousness to storied data with transparent attention to positionality, values, presence, representation and form.
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Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1450709
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:We live in a data-driven world. The voluminous scale of data gathered can lead to diminished consciousness of ethics whilst economic interests are prioritised. Across recent decades education has come to be heavily data driven and datafied. We have witnessed the dehumanising and increased labour impacts of school datafication. In search for alternatives, we wonder about the role and hope of story. We look to the etymological roots of data to see how a relationship with story may work to foreground ethicality, through attention to positionality, values, presence, representation and form. As education researchers of differing socio-cultural backgrounds, we bring diverse illustrations of how these five considerations feature in our research with educational data and trouble the politics of education data in a post-truth world. To further resonate a merging of story with data for ethical research, we apply Derrida's metonymic logos: "cinders there are", reminding us of the traces of life in data. We close with questions to inform ethical consciousness to storied data with transparent attention to positionality, values, presence, representation and form.
ISSN:0013-1911
1465-3397
DOI:10.1080/00131911.2023.2293453