AERA Annual Meeting: Formative Interventions from the Global South: Expansive Learning as Justice-Oriented Educational Praxis

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Formative Interventions from the Global South: Expansive Learning as Justice-Oriented Educational Praxis

Sun, April 12, 1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT), Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Los Feliz

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines how Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and formative interventions can support expansive learning and systemic transformation in the face of intensifying global crises. Through studies in Brazil, China, Türkiye, and an Anishinaabe Nation in the U.S., we explore how formative interventions rooted in Indigenous and decolonial epistemologies enable communities to surface contradictions, reclaim epistemic agency, and prototype inclusive futures. Each paper highlights how Learning Labs and Change Laboratories facilitate justice-oriented transformation in education by generating new objects of activity and anchoring utopias in local struggles. Together, the papers show how CHAT can be reworked through engagement with communities in the Global South and beyond to enact education as a collective, historically grounded, and future-oriented practice.

Sub Unit

SIG-Cultural-Historical Research

Chair

Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

Session Organizer

Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

Fernanda Liberali, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Sao Paulo