Breathing Life into Technologies: Designing Digital Pedagogies in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Abstract

This study examines how teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, design and enact digital pedagogies grounded in local cultural and linguistic contexts. Drawing on ethnographic and co-design methods, the research explores how educators engage digital technologies not as neutral tools but as pedagogical co-designers shaped by community values, infrastructural constraints, and relational commitments. Preliminary findings suggest that teachers’ digital practices are guided less by technological access and more by ethical, cultural, and pedagogical priorities. By conceptualizing digital pedagogical designs as a sociocultural and relational process, this study contributes to research on teacher learning and digital pedagogy, offering new insights into how educators create more just and culturally sustaining approaches to teaching with technology.

Author

• Emanuel Suarez Jimenez, University of California - Santa Cruz