Toward Epistemic Justice in Socioscientific Decision Making: How Youth Make Sense of Lively COVID-19 Vaccine Data

• In Event: Analyzing Youths' and Teachers' Science Practices as a Vital Part of Learning and Instruction

Abstract

Studies of socio-scientific decision-making in times of crises are in their infancy. This study investigates how minoritized youth make sense of newly developed COVID-19 vaccines and their intersections with the evolving multi-pandemic. Guided by theories of lively data and data sense, an epistemic injustice and re-storying methodological approach is used to center the experience of four Palestinian Arab minority youth throughout the pandemic. Analysis of long-form interviews and experience sampling show how youth come to understand the multidimensional nature of the crisis and proposed solutions resonant with the science they understand and in negotiation with the local, national and global pandemic data and broader context. The study offers implications for learning with lively data towards epistemic justice in socio-scientific decision-making.

Authors

• Wisam Sedawi, University of Michigan
  Presenting Author

• Angela Calabrese Barton, University of Michigan
  Non-Presenting Author