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56.035 - Seeing Learning Anew: Shifting the Gaze Toward Ingenuity of the Everyday

Sun, April 30, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 221 C

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

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Using the notion of “learning to see” as a theoretical lens and methodological guide, this session encourages researchers to see ingenuity instead of ineptness and inability, resilience instead of deficit, and to imagine futures with youth from nondominant communities instead of imposing failure. The objectives of this session are to understand: 1) how to re-orient the researcher gaze and refine methodological lenses to see ingenuity in the learning trajectories of non-dominant youth across formal and informal contexts; 2) how to design ecologies that include learning practices that are organized around both everyday and school-based forms of expertise; and 3) how children and families engage in joint activity with digital media and other tools.

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