25.033 - Designing for Learning With Digital Media Alongside Indigenous Communities: Ethics, Allyships, and Technocultural Change

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Presenters develop theories of educational change from participatory design research alongside Indigenous communities, focused on technocultural change. Presenters reflect on the unique potentials and challenges that arise in co-design processes aimed at meaningful alliances in decolonizing educational research and practice. Their work toward technocultural change involves tensions related to settler-colonial histories and the Westernization of Indigenous education and technologies. Presenters describe co-design processes that navigate these tensions ethically and toward forms of change that communities define as culturally relevant and that registers as meaningful across generations, from youth to educators. The ethics of co-design and the community-based theories of technocultural change that these papers contribute have implications for attending to the politics of power in co-design research with non-dominant communities.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry and Transformations

Chair

• Christian Ehret, McGill University

Papers

• Engaging Native Youth in Learning and Making Change: Land, Story, and Art Elsewhere to Climate Change - Megan Bang, The Spencer Foundation; Nikki McDaid-Morgan, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy Learning Sciences; Mario Guerra, Northwestern University

• Co-Designing Opportunities to Learn in the Kanien'kehá:ka Digital Youths' Project: Processes and Affects of Technocultural Change - Christian Ehret, McGill University; Curran Katsi’sorókwas Jacobs, Nova Career Centre; Luka Ciklovan, McGill University

• Learning to Take No for an Answer: Co-Designing Digital Experiences With Indigenous Youth in the Southwestern United States - Kristin Anne Searle, Utah State University; Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University; Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University; Yasmin B. Kafai, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto