Refugee Youth Modeling the Affects of War and Displacement: Deepening Ethical Stances Using Stop-Motion Animation

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  In Roundtable Session: Centering Affective, Accessible, and Inclusive Perspectives in the Learning Sciences (Table 7)

Abstract

This paper advances a contrapuntal view of “making” through centering the complex work of representing the affective realm of experiencing war by Muslim, female refugee youth of color. Our work builds on the recent emphasis on the dignity-affirming, ethical-political approaches in makerspaces, such as emphasizing the relationship between affect and ethical trails of micro-interactions between learners, and centring embodied, multimodal and multilingual interactions between immigrant learners of color, and offers a further reorientation by showing how the work of using stop-motion animation to represent the complex emotions and affect in war-torn countries as voiced by refugee youth can be supported pedagogically.

Authors

• Santanu Dutta, University of Calgary

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary

• Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary