Third Spaces as Relationally-Mediated and Historicized Learning

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Abstract

Educators interested in third spaces must attend to how activity systems are mediated through interaction and design and have the potential to solidify as educational substrates over time. Thus, we share analysis from a collaborative ethnography a critical history class to better understand how the relational mediation of third spaces can accumulate over time as a historicized learning experience. Drawing from insights gleaned from ongoing dialectical conversations on student analytic narratives, we explore how one student’s experience of relational mediation of third spaces in moment-to-moment interactions over time impacted their experience and perception of learning. We hope to invite dialogue on how attending to the relational mediation of third spaces illuminates their historical permanency on student future trajectories.

Authors

• Ava Jackson, Loyola University Chicago

• Paige A Hicks, Loyola University Chicago

• Corey A Winchester, Northwestern University