Critical DataLit extends current citizenship education by generating a social justice-oriented approach to data literacy, using creative practices with children aged 11 to 17 in various learning environments such as schools and youth centers. The research responds to concerns on data-driven discrimination and social inequalities and aligns with calls for supporting critical data literacies. Critical DataLit research actions use future-oriented methods to capture children's imaginaries on the relation between social justice and data. The study adopts Participatory Action Research to support children's civic engagement and proposes creative methods drawing from design fiction, speculative design, and critical making to support children envisioning social justice-oriented data-driven systems. Critical DataLit advances research and practice developing tools for cultivating children's protagonist role in data-driven systems.

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