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Ingenuity and the Shaping of New Participation Trajectories: Examining Connected Learning Through Joint Mediated Practices in the Home

Mon, April 11, 10:00 to 11:30am, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 103 A

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

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‘Formal’ learning environments are often rife with tensions between everyday expertise and school-based knowledge, particularly for youth from nondominant communities. The scholars in this session approach learning as a syncretic process that brings together everyday and academic learning (Gutiérrez, 2014). To develop an understanding of how syncretic processes of connected learning develop in youth and adults, we examine connected learning “as movement” (Gutierrez, 2008) across multiple sites, ways of knowing, relationships among peers, mentors and family members, and youths’ interests. We find that nondominant communities in our study employ creativity and ingenuity to expand the possibilities of their current circumstances and shape new participation trajectories.

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