43.019 - Socializing Epistemologies That Consolidate Complexity, Weighing Evidence, and Interrogating Emotional Responses: The Role of Ecologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This conference raises the challenge and opportunity of interdisciplinary and mixed methods research that can capture the complexity of human learning as lived experience across multiple contexts. This symposium takes up that theme by interrogating conceptual and methodological opportunities of interdisciplinary efforts to situate learning as ecological, growing out of people’s participation in cultural practices within and across settings. Each of the papers draws on theoretical groundings in cognition, human development, design research, studies of dynamic systems and ecological systems and empirical studies informed by a cultural and critical theory set of perspectives. The empirical studies described in these papers involve examination of youth’s participation in multiple settings and employ multiple methods to examine data and interrogate claims.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chair

• Elizabeth Birr Moje, University of Michigan

Papers

• Identity Repertoires Within and Across Ecological Spaces as Resources for Interrogating Political Positioning - Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Emotional Responsiveness as a Key Component of Learning Ecologies: A View From Multiple Settings - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin; Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Spencer Foundation

• Documenting Injustice: Consequential Learning in Everyday Resistance Practices - Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley; Arturo Cortez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Supporting the Youth Sense-Making in Navigating Ethical Multiplicities of Heterogeneous Nature-Culture Relations in Learning Environments - Megan Bang, The Spencer Foundation

Discussant

• Elizabeth Birr Moje, University of Michigan