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Emancipatory Movements Toward Justice and Joy: The Role of Improvisation in Transformational Learning (Table 28)
Fri, April 12, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall BSession Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This session elevates the practice of improvisation for transforming educational contexts in ways that foster more just relations. Scholars share empirical insights drawn from a range of learning environments that work with improvisation as a core practice, design principle, and axiological commitment, and consider the meanings of improvisatory experiences for learning among students, educators, families, and artists. Collectively, we address how studies of improvisation can support the development of pedagogical frameworks rooted in ways of being that not only interrupt various forms of injustice, but also nurture forms of co-presence, wonder, joy and love that enliven educational possibility.
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“Convivencia not Competencia”: Learning From an Elementary-Aged Girl Mariachi Ensemble - Cati V. de los Rios, University of California - Berkeley
Musical Improvisation and the Co-Creation of Everyday Pedagogical Spaces for Social Change - Ananda M. Marin, University of California - Los Angeles; Brenda Y. Lopez, California State University - Fullerton; Lindsay E. Lindberg, University of California - Los Angeles; Shivani Dave, University of California - Los Angeles
Immigrant Youth’s (Re-)Imagining of Communal Well-Being Through Multivocal, Improvisational Storytelling - Inmaculada Maria García Sánchez, University of California - Los Angeles; Amanda Harris, University of California - Los Angeles; Jackson Gzehoviak, University of California - Los Angeles; Jocelyn Meza, University of California - Los Angeles; Kristi Westphaln, University of California - Los Angeles
Pedagogical Weaving and Collective Teaching in a STEAM Storytelling Program - Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Melita Morales, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Mya Franklin, Northwestern University; Sam Carroll, Northwestern University; Onam Lansana, Northwestern University; Teyona James-Harris, Northwestern University; Djamila Oumarou, Northwestern University
Designing to Support “Wondering With”: Disciplined Improvisation and Ethical Pedagogical Mediation Within Field-Based Inquiry - Jordan D. Sherry-Wagner, University of Washington - Bothell; Megan Bang, Northwestern University