Introduction: Exploring, Valuing, and (Re)enacting Futures in Postdigital Education

The chapter, an introduction to the anthology Framing Futures in Postdigital Education: Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices, explores the questions that prompted the research in this anthology and explains the rationale of the anthology in the context of education and the postdigital. Some chapters in the anthology single out key concepts in postdigital education and engage in in-depth discussions of the meanings invested in them with regard to data cation of education. Other contributions in the anthology explore the complexity of data-driven practices via empirical cases and studies in education. The approach of the anthology caters for critical examination and uses of concepts and methods that presently occur in a wide range of contexts. The chapters of the anthology address these aspects at conceptual levels that re ect observed practices in the making and the pursuit of methods to explore what futures are enacted in the present.