Big Data's Call to Philosophers of Education

Autor/in	Blanken-Webb, Jane
Titel	Big Data's Call to Philosophers of Education
Quelle	In: Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 24 (2017) 4, S.310-322 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2369-8659
Schlagwörter	Educational Philosophy; Data Analysis; Educational Research; Learning Processes; Data Interpretation; Educational Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Auswertung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Data evaluation; Datenauswertung; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	This paper investigates the intersection of big data and philosophy of education by considering big data's potential for addressing learning via a holistic process of coming-to-know. Learning, in this sense, cannot be reduced to the difference between a pre- and post-test, for example, as it is constituted at least as much by qualities of experience as it is the situation, process of inquiry and its consequences. Long a perennial concern of philosophers of education, the author suggests that big data offers a budding opportunity for philosophers to engage in dialogue with empirical research in order to better understand the process of learning as coming-to know. Drawing on John Dewey's theory of inquiry and his philosophy of experience, the author demonstrates ways that both empirical and philosophical research stand to benefit from cross-dialogue. In offering an unprecedented glimpse of empirical detail, the author proposes that big data stands to afford new insights into this most complex human process, and that Dewey's philosophy offers a vital lens of interpretation that can help philosophers of education to make use of this data in addressing the perennial question of how humans come-to-know. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01