Post-Face: Cultural Studies of Numeracy. (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lather, Patti
• Other Names: de Freitas Elizabeth guest-editor.; Dixon-Román Ezekiel guest-editor.; Lather Patti guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 16:Number 5(2016:Oct.)
• Page Start: 502
• Page End: 505
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: quantification -- cultural studies of numeracy -- (post)critical inquiry; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708616655771
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

Re-emphasizing our agenda for this special issue as marking the shift from epistemological to ontological concerns in social science inquiry, Patti Lather locates it in challenging the orthodoxies of both positivist and critical approaches to the calculative, computational thinking and the limits of reason. With a focus on an escape from psychometrics in education research, she grounds her remarks in the context of the wider terrain of the possibilities of quantification for cultural studies and (post)critical inquiry.