Full Description
This volume outlines powerful theoretical and methodological approaches for expanding the possibilities of educational research. By illuminating speculative education as an emerging scholarly practice, this collection offers pragmatic guidance for scholarly world-building.
It introduces "speculative education" as a critical and hopeful approach to educational research. Through empirical scholarship, the book describes paradigms of collective thriving beyond the existing horizons guiding research, policy, and practice in educational research. The collection of scholarship here offers visionary and future-oriented approaches to teaching and learning that operate beyond the bounds of current social, economic, and cultural arrangements that perpetuate various forms of oppression. Through specific examples and a collection of thematic interludes, this collection details a framework through which educational researchers and practitioners can enact speculative dreaming. This speculative framework seeks to foreground ethical relations as the basis of civic trust; foster an ethos of collaborative practice as the work of world-building; and engage in joyful struggle toward just futures. Ultimately, this volume highlights how researchers, designers, educators, and individuals linked in community with each other must question the intended outcomes of educational scholarship writ large and if the priors of academic scholarship actually lead toward destinations of freedom. In recognizing the pluralistic nature of speculative worlds that might be built, the possibilities for new educational models and experiences are boundless.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Contents
Introduction - Other suns: Designing for racial equity through speculative education 1. Cyborg sociopolitical reconfigurations: Designing for speculative fabulation in learning 2. Early dawn toward imagining worlds 3. Restorying a Black girl's future: Using womanist storytelling methodologies to reimagine dominant narratives in computing education 4. Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices 5. Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales 6. Critical policy analysis and gameplay 7. Organizing pedagogies: Transgressing campus-movement boundaries through radical study and action
