QuantCrit: education, policy, ‘Big Data’ and principles for a critical race theory of statistics

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 158-179

  Gillborn, David ^a   Warmington, Paul ^b   Demack, Sean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Data; Critical race theory; education policy; quantitative research methods; race; racism; statistics

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EDUCATION POLICY; IDEOLOGY; MARGINALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; RACISM; RESEARCH METHOD; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 85030181686     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2017.1377417     Document Type: Article

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