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Youth Co-Design: The Possibilities, Affordances, and Challenges of Including Youth in Educational Design

Mon, April 16, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Fourth Floor, Room 4.02-4.03

Session Type: Symposium

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The papers in this symposium explore the processes of youth co-design in informal STEM educational contexts. The works presented address the constraints and affordances of including youth as designers in educational programs, products, and activities. Though the benefits of co-design can include empowering youth, incorporating diverse perspectives, and attending to ideas that might otherwise go uncaptured, there are also challenges that prevent youth co-design from becoming standard design practice. Some of those challenges involve all participants to take on new and somewhat unconventional roles. This symposium looks at the processes in which youth are involved in the co-design process, the purposes for involving youth in co-design, and the final programs, products, and activities that are designed.

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