Critical and Emergent Perspectives on Transdisciplinarity in Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium session advances the discussion on transdisciplinarity as a key theoretical construct to disrupt hegemonic disciplinary norms and to open up critical and emergent disciplinary practices that make visible historically silenced voices and hidden histories. This symposium is a collection of five papers connected to the central notion of transdisciplinarity: 1) social design as transdisciplinary praxis, 2) promotion of transdisciplinary epistemic dialogues, 3) community-driven transdisciplinary learning with Inuit youth, 4) heterogeneity in STEM learning centering the voices of multilingual Black and Brown youth, and 5) multimodality as transdisciplinary design to reframe disability. By gathering researchers who draw from diverse epistemologies and methodologies, we will unpack the notion of transdisciplinarity and its relevance to the research of learning.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Cultural-Historical Research

Chairs

• Miwa Takeuchi, University of Calgary

• Jennifer Dawn Adams, University of Calgary

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary

Papers

• Transdisciplinarity in Social Design–Based Experiments - Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley; Peng Yin, Berkeley University of California

• Promoting Transdisciplinary Epistemic Dialogue - Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University

• Youths' Relationships With the Land, Each Other, and Their Community Understood Through Navigations Among Epistemologies - Jrene Rahm, University of Montreal

• Rethinking Heterogeneity and STEM Learning With Multilingual Black and Brown Young People - Shakhnoza Kayumova, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth; Martha Allexsaht-Snider, University of Georgia - Athens

• Transdisciplinarity as Multimodal Reimaginings of Deficit Framings of Disability in School Science - Marie-Claire Shanahan, University of Calgary; Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary

Discussant

• Luis Antonio Leyva, Vanderbilt University