44.034 - Children's Books, Dungeons & Dragons, Twitter, and Coding: Tools for Ingenious Negotiations of Nondominant Learner Roles

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session builds upon scholarship that has documented the transformative potential of informal learning environments for non-dominant youth (Hull & Katz, 2006; Hull & Schultz, 2002). It explores issues of inequity and opportunity as catalysts for changing participation structures, and proposes ingenuity as a frame of inquiry for examining how non-dominant youth push against established identity norms. The diverse papers in this session attend to 1) the potential of role-playing games in the shaping of civic identity; 2) the transformation of formal teacher/learner roles in informal contexts; 3) the shifting of expertise for non-dominant youth in an informal digital literacies program; and, 4) the changing nature of agentive identity development for non-dominant youth in our current social media age.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation with social contexts of education

Chair

• Carlos Martínez-Cano, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Playing Dungeons & Dragons in an Era of Terror, Violence, and Discrimination - Antero Garcia, Stanford University

• From Imagination to Action: Architectural Ingenuity and the Role of Play in a Summer Book Writing Program - Arturo Cortez, University of Colorado - Boulder; José Ramón Lizárraga, University of California - Berkeley; Nicola McClung, University of San Francisco

• The Limits of Coding: Mexican-Origin Boys as Aspiring Technology Experts in the Educational Borderlands - Carlos Martínez-Cano, University of Pennsylvania

• #QueeringThePresent, #QueryingTheFuture: The Learning, Identity, and Performativity of New Possible Futures Through Digital Queerness Online - José Ramón Lizárraga, University of California - Berkeley; Arturo Cortez, University of Colorado - Boulder

Discussant

• Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania