Cultural Studies and Quantification in Educational Research

• In Event: 72.064 - Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 72.064-3 - Exorcising the Specters of Neoliberalism and Quantification: Intersections of Cultural Studies and Education

Abstract

The (theological) belief and value in the methods of quantification have not been widely shared in educational research. On the one hand, the quantitative continues to hold on to positivist assumptions of objectivity and the privileged access to the “truths” of natural phenomena via the logics of mathematics. On the other hand, cultural studies has radically rejected the quantitative due to several criticisms. But, to what extent does this radical rejection of the quantitative compromise the deconstructive project of cultural studies by falling trap to the quantitative/qualitative and, related, nature/culture binaries? This manuscript leans on post-humanist deconstructive interventions on the nature/culture binary in order to rethink and reconsider the possibilities of quantification for cultural studies in educational research.

Author

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, The University of Pennsylvania