Repurposing Technologies as Digital Pedagogy Design Work in Oaxaca, Mexico (Poster 29)

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Abstract

This dissertation examines how Indigenous teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico learn, make sense of, and design digital pedagogies to repurpose technologies toward local languages, cultural practices, and community endeavors amid uneven infrastructures. Drawing on qualitative data with 11 teachers in urban and rural multilingual communities, I show that teachers learn through hands-on experimentation while judging what “works” by community commitments; turn pedagogical sensemaking into design by continually imagining, testing, revising, and repurposing tools; and foreground relational labor over technological function, showing how relationships are what make learning possible. This study reframes teacher learning with technology as an ongoing human practice of repurposing tools toward community endeavors, and shows how infrastructures, rather than teachers’ knowledge of technology, shape what is pedagogically possible.

Author

• Emanuel Suarez Jimenez, University of California - Santa Cruz