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Designing for Racial Justice Through Speculative Pedagogies: Learning to Build Liberatory Futures

Sat, April 13, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115B

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

This poster session brings together a dynamic group of scholars who span disciplines, geographies, and career stages to articulate a speculative paradigm for teaching and learning in formal and informal educational environments oriented toward building racially just and equitable futures. Building from traditions of Afro-, Latinx-, Indigenous, and Queer futurisms that are shaping current popular media and culture, this session takes seriously the act of imagining new forms of learning in K-12 schools, teacher education, and out-of-school ecosystems. Each poster examines the cultural nature of speculative learning by leveraging a range of media forms including: comics, social media, making/tinkering creations, video and other forms of gaming, journaling, and quilting. Participatory social design methodologies embody collective forms of knowing and envisioning.

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