Mapping dispositions for social justice: towards a cartography of reflection

Casebeer, Daniel

doi:10.1080/14623943.2016.1164685

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“…Images and maps were created from the focus group discussions in order to offer visual interpretations of the research. Mapping was used as a creative research method, as a ‘heuristic device to encourage culturally conscious critical reflection’ (Casebeer, 2016: 363). Using social cartography- and arts-based approaches allowed the research to consider both discursive and non-discursive ways of knowing (Langer, 1957) and to consider the emotional element of the research topic.…”

Section: The Rationale For Creative Research Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using creativity to envision a good society

Goldstraw

2018

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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This paper considers research into civil society’s visions of a good society. In the context of this research, a good society was understood to be visions for society that included a variety of alternatives to the current neoliberal hegemony. These visions of a good society ranged from increased state intervention to place-based community level visions for society. Creative challenges were developed using creative participatory research approaches which are described below. These were framed around three core requests to civil society: to grow, encourage and converse. These core requests aim to empower the development of a broad solidarity of human values. This paper uses the theoretical perspectives of cultural, social, community and human capitals (Bourdieu, 1984; Flora and Flora, 2008; Putnam, 1995) to critically evaluate the creative challenges that have been developed by participatory research with civil society groups. The paper seeks to critically evaluate civil society’s visions of a good society, and to frame a counter-narrative to neoliberalism, which reflect creative challenges; to grow and encourage a civil society ‘field’ (Bourdieu, 1984).

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Section: The Rationale For Creative Research Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using creativity to envision a good society

Goldstraw

2018

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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“…Social cartography as a research method has a history of providing useful data sets and analysis for problems that cannot be addressed through positivist or closed approaches (e.g., Casebeer, 2016; Robinson, 2002). Rather, social cartography is applied when questions are posited with respect to open, shifting, variant conditions, where change is recognized as being immanent to the situation, and, as such, becomes the focus of the study.…”

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The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney

Cole

Moustakim

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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Modern cities produce areas of poverty, despite their overall wealth. These pockets of living can exacerbate societal problems, especially because the opposite end of the societal spectrum is often close by. This paper examines an educational initiative in one such district, called Claymore, in the suburbs of outer Sydney. The project deployed a mobile youth van equipped with high-tech educational hardware and software, and encouraged local youth to take advantage of the van, to further high-tech skills acquisition. This paper offers a Deleuze/Guattari (1988) cartographic approach to mapping the effects of the van extracted from their opus maxima, 1000 Plateaus. This approach is a mode of social topology that deepens the type of discourse analysis that one may take from Foucault and its uses in educational research (e.g., Ball, 2012). The social cartography that one might derive from Deleuze/Guattari involves producing a ‘plane of immanence’ and assemblages about the phenomena under scrutiny, in the case of this article, the mobile van initiative in Claymore. This does not mean that hierarchies are diminished, but that they are reset for the purposes of analysis, so that their complex relationships are realized and understood. This paper looks to describe and analyse what is immanent to the situation in Claymore, and what effects the mobile van might have given this state of affairs.

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“…Since the introduction of social cartographies by Paulston and Liebman (), and Paulston (), social cartographies have become accepted and useful in a variety of research contexts to map and illustrate the different intersections, juxtapositions and fluidities of phenomena and discursive orientations (Casebeer, ; Ruitenberg, ). Social cartographies “problematise common sense imaginaries, and draw attention to the intersections of normative claims in ways that amplify the ambivalences, contradictions and limits of common discursive assemblages” (de Oliveira Andreotti, Stein, Pashby, & Nicholson, , p. 84).…”

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A social cartography of analytics in education as performative politics

Prinsloo¹

2019

Brit J Educational Tech

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Data—their collection, analysis and use—have always been part of education, used to inform policy, strategy, operations, resource allocation, and, in the past, teaching and learning. Recently, with the emergence of learning analytics, the collection, measurement, analysis and use of student data have become an increasingly important research focus and practice. With (higher) education having access to more student data, greater variety and nuanced/granularity of data, as well as collecting and using real‐time data, it is crucial to consider the data imaginary in higher education, and, specifically, analytics as performative politics. Data and data analyses are often presented as representing “reality” and, as such, are seminal in institutional “truth‐making,” whether in the context of operational or student learning data. In the broader context of critical data studies (CDS), this social cartography examines and maps the “data frontier” and the “data gaze” within the context of the dominant narrative of evidence‐based management and the data imaginary in higher education. Following an analysis of the main assumptions in evidence‐based management and the power of metrics, this paper presents a social cartography of data analytics not only as representational, but as actant, and as performative politics. What is already known about this topic Student data in higher education are increasingly used not only to inform operational and strategic planning, but to inform and shape curricula, pedagogy and student learning. The collection, measurement, analysis and use of student data are informed by a particular data imaginary in service of evidence‐based management. Data and analytics are seen as objective, neutral representations of reality and used as basis for informing policy, operational planning, resource allocation, and, increasingly, learning analytics and student facing dashboards. What this paper adds Critically examines data analytics in higher education as “truth‐making” and never neutral, and always as provisional snapshots of “reality” serving particular, often undeclared, assumptions and interests. Situates learning analytics as the collection, measurement, analysis and use of student data in the broader context of the data imaginary and student data as “data frontier”. Provides evidence that data analytics is not only representational, but, increasingly, performative and political. Implications for practice and/or policy Makes explicit some of the theoretical, political, epistemological and ontological assumptions underpinning and sustaining the data imaginary in higher education. Foregrounds the need for more critical approaches to our expectations, collections, analyses and use of student data. Argues the need for policy and practitioners to recognise the inherent political and performative nature of data and data analysis, and the need for transparency, accountability and care.

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Mapping dispositions for social justice: towards a cartography of reflection

Cited by 3 publications

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Using creativity to envision a good society

Using creativity to envision a good society

The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney

A social cartography of analytics in education as performative politics

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