Nina Brandau
Biographic Data
| ID | 770273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Brandau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandau |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDAU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmut Schmidt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1563-8456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Participation and co-design in digital education research
Over the past decade, there has been a boom of participatory as well as co-design-oriented approaches (also) in the field of digital education. While much of that boom has been following a mainly instrumental understanding of participation and co-design, there has also evolved a growing body of critical research, devoted to the normativities and political dynamics of the approaches, including the performative impact of technologies. This paper in…
Tracing technological obstinacies in critical educational platform design
Big Tech platforms, and their largely proprietary logics, have been scrutinised within the field of critical edtech studies as bringing forth an increase in surveillance and inequality in education. There has therefore been a rising call to apply critical, participatory and speculative design approaches to develop alternative platform infrastructures that correspond with values such as communality.However, as research on public-oriented approache…
Visualising the school
Critical research on data visualisations in education has so far mostly focused on the representation of numeric data in dashboards or graphs. Consequently, the question of how schools are made visible and (re)enacted through visual structures on data-mediated interfaces more broadly – what we call Graphic Data Visualisations (GDV) – has remained under-researched. Addressing that research gap, this study specifically scrutinises the role of GDV a…
Maneuvering constellations of valuation
This article provides a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector. Edtech startups are companies that are in the first stages of their operation and that seek to provide a newly developed edtech product or service to the education sector. To date, there is hardly any critical research present that seeks to disentangle what the characteristics and modes of operation of this sector are precisely. Through ethnographic research of an edtech…
Critical and participatory design in-between the tensions of daily schooling
Using Critical Design (CD) and Participatory Design (PD) as analytical and normative vantage points, this contribution reflects on how characteristics of both approaches can be useful for a reflective and inclusive engagement with educational technology in school development processes. Illustrating initial empirical findings from the research project Smart Schools, we analyse how characteristics of CD and PD are challenged or affirmed when unfold…
Visualising the school
Critical research on data visualisations in education has so far mostly focused on the representation of numeric data in dashboards or graphs. Consequently, the question of how schools are made visible and (re)enacted through visual structures on data-mediated interfaces more broadly – what we call Graphic Data Visualisations (GDV) – has remained under-researched. Addressing that research gap, this study specifically scrutinises the role of GDV a…
Maneuvering constellations of valuation
This article provides a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector. Edtech startups are companies that are in the first stages of their operation and that seek to provide a newly developed edtech product or service to the education sector. To date, there is hardly any critical research present that seeks to disentangle what the characteristics and modes of operation of this sector are precisely. Through ethnographic research of an edtech…
Critical and participatory design in-between the tensions of daily schooling
Using Critical Design (CD) and Participatory Design (PD) as analytical and normative vantage points, this contribution reflects on how characteristics of both approaches can be useful for a reflective and inclusive engagement with educational technology in school development processes. Illustrating initial empirical findings from the research project Smart Schools, we analyse how characteristics of CD and PD are challenged or affirmed when unfold…
Maneuvering constellations of valuation
This article provides a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector. Edtech startups are companies that are in the first stages of their operation and that seek to provide a newly developed edtech product or service to the education sector. To date, there is hardly any critical research present that seeks to disentangle what the characteristics and modes of operation of this sector are precisely. Through ethnographic research of an edtech…
Visualising the school
Critical research on data visualisations in education has so far mostly focused on the representation of numeric data in dashboards or graphs. Consequently, the question of how schools are made visible and (re)enacted through visual structures on data-mediated interfaces more broadly – what we call Graphic Data Visualisations (GDV) – has remained under-researched. Addressing that research gap, this study specifically scrutinises the role of GDV a…
Participation and co-design in digital education research
Over the past decade, there has been a boom of participatory as well as co-design-oriented approaches (also) in the field of digital education. While much of that boom has been following a mainly instrumental understanding of participation and co-design, there has also evolved a growing body of critical research, devoted to the normativities and political dynamics of the approaches, including the performative impact of technologies. This paper in…
Tracing technological obstinacies in critical educational platform design
Big Tech platforms, and their largely proprietary logics, have been scrutinised within the field of critical edtech studies as bringing forth an increase in surveillance and inequality in education. There has therefore been a rising call to apply critical, participatory and speculative design approaches to develop alternative platform infrastructures that correspond with values such as communality.However, as research on public-oriented approache…
Digital Education and Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)