SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Theme:
3.1 Farther reaches of theoretical and methodological explorations
What:
Symposium (Symp)
When:
1:30 PM, Thursday 31 Aug 2017
(2 hours)
Breaks:
Afternoon Refreshments 03:30 PM to 03:50 PM (20 minutes)
Where:
Convention Center
- 205 A
How:
The congress theme pushes us to engage in deep conversations about challenging issues that expand on current practice and lead to new ideas. In this symposium, we engage with the past in that we build on mediated action and mediated discourse analysis with roots in the work of Vygotsky and practice theory, frameworks with a long history in the study of learning in situ. Essentially, we are interested in the design and study of meaning making in multimodal contexts. Yet, we also do so in new ways, building on the call made by Kress (2012) for engaging deeply and possibly in new ways with ‘signs of learning’. Maybe it is the commodification of education that has marginalized or erased altogether the study of creative ways of becoming, interpreting and learning that Vygotsky had so much to say about. In this symposium, we aim to re-engage with creative learning and attend to sociomaterial practices, analyzing agency as a situated process. We attend to the multimodal and multisensory and the ways they mediate the production of learners and learning, but also agency that then results in expansive and transformative forms of learning and becoming. By building on the work of sociocultural and semiotic theory and challenging current neoliberal ideals about what counts as knowing, learning, becoming and who can come to know, the symposium aims to engage in a dialogue with the audience about new ways to recognize learning and engage with learning.
Sub Sessions
Dances of meaning making, languaging, doing and repurposing in and with science and its objects
1:30 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Participant
Dr. Jrene Rahm (Université de Montréal)
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Participant
Chris Siry (Université du Luxembourg)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Resource-rich approaches for learning in a Multilingual Secondary Science Classroom in Luxembourg: A teacher’s point of view
1:50 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Participant
Ms. Anna Gorges (Université du Luxembourg)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Space, Discourse, and Meaning in a Transdisciplinary Design Studio
2:10 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Participant
Dr. Carol Brandt (Temple University)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Signs of Learning, Signs of Failure, and the Struggle for Recognition
2:30 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Imaginaries and subjectivities of teachers of color in Urban STEM classrooms
2:50 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Participant
Dr. Jennifer Adams (University of Calgary)
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)
Building on activity theory to enhance capabilities in international development projects
3:10 PM
(20 minutes)
Part of:
SYMP 261 - Unpacking ‘signs of learning’ in complex social environments: How to desettle neoliberal market driven educational methodologies, epistemologies and recognitions of learning
Paper in a Symposium (Symp)