Seven Chilis: Expanding "Repertoires of Practice" Through Documenting and Designing for "Third Space" in a Multicultural Learning Environment

• In Event: Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Broadening Learning Across Subject Areas

Abstract

Opportunities for supporting and extending the ways in which youth are making sense of themselves and their relations to learning activities are often quelled, in part, because pre-service teachers struggle to leave room for the emergence of “third spaces” (Gutiérrez, Rymes & Larson, 1995). These third spaces are essential for the creation and sustenance of equitable practices of teaching of learning, especially in the context of diverse afterschool programs like El Pueblo Mágico. To attend to this problem of practice, we use mediated discourse analysis for in adult-youth interactions at El Pueblo Mágico to better understand how to organize learning environments that push against essentialist notions of culture, and in doing so, support the emergence of “third spaces.”

Authors

• Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley