Data Literacy and Social Justice: An oxímoron? Responses from the counter-hegemony

This work introduces educators' reactions from their professional practice to the injustice generated by the practices and narratives of datafication. A reflective and interpretive work approach based on the principles of hermeneutics is presented, implemented within a series of workshops (12) with the participation of 298 educators. From the interpretive synthesis it is observed that: A) although educators are developing forms of sensibility and attention to the problem of datafication, they feel that their degrees of freedom are limited. In a subordinate way to the first effect, it appears that B) in some cases, they abandon themselves to suffer the problems of datafication passively; C) in others, they wield their technical and technological skills to "hack the algorithm". In any of these situations, the need arises to organise the educational work beyond technological competence, to promote counter-hegemonic antagonisms as a way to build new contexts of data justice, and therefore, social justice