Processes of Partnering: Local Development of Methods to Democratize Knowledge Production in Research on Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In recent years, questions about the participatory nature of design research have come to the fore in the Learning Sciences. Specifically scholars are critically reflecting on the knowledge produced in design projects that do not interrogate the forms of participation and social relations across researchers, practitioners and communities (Gutiérrez & Penuel, 2014; Esmonde & Booker, 2016). This collection of presentations uses ethnographic analysis of processes of partnering to unearth and make more transparent the improvisational and locally instantiated routines that expand our methods for developing equitable partnerships. Collectively, the session will consider how these local innovations contribute to our understandings of learning and processes of partnering within PDR, as well as implications for methodological training in the Learning Sciences.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chair

• Molly Victoria Shea, San Francisco State University

Papers

• Toward Indigenous Collective Continuance Through Designing Our Own Learning Environments - Megan Bang, University of Washington

• Intention, Desire, and Power in a New Community Partnership - A. Susan Jurow, University of Colorado - Boulder; Terrenda Corisa White, University of Colorado - Boulder; Brian A Lightfoot, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Disrupting and Subverting Researcher Knowledge Through Storytelling in a Community-Based Partnership - Molly Victoria Shea, San Francisco State University; José Sandoval, Environmental Science Workshop

• Methodological Imagination and Improvisation: The Development of Collaborative Epistemic Relations in Participatory Design Research - Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Meg Elena Escudé, Exploratorium

Discussant

• Kris Gutierrez, University of California - Berkeley