Opening Remarks by the President; Keynote Session: Infrastructuring Culturally-situated Design Research in Education

Full Session: General Session

Short Description

Design research is a genre of inquiry in which the iterative development of solutions to authentic challenges in context provides the setting for scientific investigation. Educational design researchers collaborate with practitioners to analyze the problems being tackled, and to develop and refine solutions, which are informed by (formative) evaluation along the way. This work is multifaceted, requiring the investigators to serve as consultants and designers, as well as researchers. If design research is to realize its potential for engendering (knowledge about) culturally-responsive learning environments, then explicit attention must be given to the infrastructure that can support such multi-faceted work. This presentation discusses core design research processes, along with the roles and competencies they require, before turning to the human, material, and structural features of the environment that can increase the impact of design research endeavors.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Sessions

Submissions

• Infrastructuring Culturally-Situated Design Research in Education - Presenter: Susan McKenney, University of Twente