15.041 - Endogenously Organized Teaching and Learning Events in Informal Learning Environments

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium expands on scholarship that eschews deficit views by privileging the meanings that learners negotiate and develop as they engage in activity. We consider how treating learning as a members’ phenomenon (Stevens, 2010), can serve to illuminate endogenously organized teaching-learning interactions across diverse settings and activities. Case studies examine how young people assemble and orient to their activities as teaching and/or learning events in three distinct settings: a high school robotics team, a school field trip to a science museum, and a teen tutoring center. The cases explore the utility of treating learning as a members’ phenomenon for studies of informal learning, while also critically expanding this approach to include explicit attention to issues of power.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Informal Learning Environment Research

Chair

• Jasmine Y. Ma, New York University

Papers

• "Time for Some Quick Maths": Teaching-Learning Moments on a Robotics Team - Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York University; Daniela Della Volpe, New York University

• "It's Kinda Cool...I'll Show You How It Works": Endogenously Organized Teaching-Learning Interactions in a Science Center - Molly Kelton, Washington State University - Pullman

• I'm Going to Turn You Into a Fan!" Learning to Love One Direction - Karis Michelle Jones, New York University

Discussant

• Reed Stevens, Northwestern University