Seeing Histories in Bodies, Places, and Disciplinary Learning: Historicizing Methodologies

Arshad Ali, Natalie R. Davis, Miwa Aoki Takeuchi, Lucy Avraamidou, Ananda Marin, Isabel Martins, Thomas Philip, Shirin Vossoughi

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Abstract

In this symposium, we will reconceptualize our methodologies and research design centering histories in places, bodies, and disciplinary learning. We re-engage in qualitative methodologies that guided us so far yet limited us in fully accounting for the sociopolitical and sociohistorical nature of our research and analyses. This symposium challenges individualized knowledge production and invites the field of the learning sciences to bring forth collective and dialogic figuring and refiguring, co-thinking, and community/solidarity building. Four sets of paired dialogues will defamiliarize familiar methodologies in the learning sciences (e.g., video-based research, interaction analysis, ethnography) toward fuller consideration of power and radical transformation. These paired dialogues will also open new horizons on the role of arts and affect in research from the perspectives of histories in places and in bodies. Collectively, we will revisit the epistemological assumptions that shaped what were rendered visible and invisible in our research process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All
Subtitle of host publicationOverarching Research, Development, and Practices - 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022
EditorsClark Chinn, Edna Tan, Carol Chan, Yael Kali
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Pages1723-1730
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781737330653
StatePublished - 2022
Event16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022 - Virtual, Online, Japan
Duration: Jun 6 2022Jun 10 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
ISSN (Print)1814-9316

Conference

Conference16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/6/226/10/22

Funding

We are grateful to our dear friend and colleague Dr. Audrey Msimanga for her role in shaping the evolution of this work. Audrey's ideas on agency, freedom and science education in the Global South deepened our understandings of learning and histories in places. May her ideas and commitments to just education live on. We are honored to have had the opportunity to co-think with her.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Education

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