Utopian Methodology: Researching Educational Interventions to Promote Equity Over Multiple Timescales

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Five
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Methodological Opportunities of Cultural-Historical Research (Table 15)

Abstract

This article explores the methodological foundations for utopian methodology as a form of Design-Based Research (DBR) that can guide the process of envisioning, implementing, and evaluating the more radical forms of activity systems that have become both possible and necessary in the current world crisis. We examine examples from three national traditions for designing and implementing equitable educational activities. Each illuminates critical moments in the process of conducting DBR, combining social theory and cultural-historical activity theory. This paper makes a methodological contribution by specifying principles for a utopian methodology that goes beyond addressing incremental changes and strives to organize for possible and impossible futures.

Authors

• Antti J. Rajala, University of Eastern Finland
  Presenting Author

• Michael Cole, University of California - San Diego
  Presenting Author

• Moises Esteban Guitart, University of Girona
  Non-Presenting Author