Thriving in Fogaraté: Engineering Ingenuity in Haitian-Dominican Communities (Poster 17)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Saturday 11:45 am
  In Invited Poster Session: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work Poster Session

Abstract

Drawing on theories from sociolinguistic and learning sciences, this work expand Thriving in Fogaraté, a conceptual model that illustrates how Haitian-Dominicans, despite histories of marginalization and erasure, have cultivated a culture of engineering ingenuity by integrating technical knowledge with community practices across generations. Using a mixed-methods, this project combines grounded theory and within-group analyses of fieldnotes, participant observations, surveys, and semi-structured interviews. The project examines (a) the engineering-related practices through which Haitian-Dominican communities enact social transformation using their multilingual and multidialectal repertoires; (b) community perceptions linking language practices and cultural understandings to engineering learning; and (c) the features in the bateyes as learning environments, that afford learning opportunities in engineering.

Author

• Greses Perez, Tufts University