Designing Learning for Just, Sustainable, and Culturally Thriving Futures: Engaging Complex Socio-Ecological Systems in Place

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Socio-cultural practices in learning settings are sites for leveraging and/or re-mediating sustainable and just conceptions of nature-culture relations to meet changing environmental demands of 21st century (Authors et al, in press). Using ethnographic and interactional methodologies, this symposium consists of 4 studies that take up Indigenous land-based pedagogies designed to explore complex socio-ecological phenomena in the context of a four year community based design research project focused on Indigenous STEAM education. Critical to this work was the design and enactment of pedagogies that supported learners onto-epistemic sensemaking and navigation of multiple ways of knowing and being. These studies in this symposium each exam critical aspects of youth learning and pedagogical practice that supported robust engagement with place.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Priya Pugh, University of Washington - Seattle

Papers

• Students' Onto-Epistemic Navigation in Learning About Plants in Forest Ecosystems - Megan Bang, University of Washington

• Learning Place-Based Perspective-Taking Through Place-Based Play - Joh Howard, University of Washington

• Scaffolding Observations in the Design of Material and Dialogic Tools - Priya Pugh, University of Washington - Seattle

• Exploring Nature's Mathematics to Build Indigenous Youth's Sense of Relational Reciprocity - Filiberto Barajas-Lopez, University of Washington

Discussant

• Carrie T. Tzou, University of Washington - Bothell