1st Edition
Other Suns Designing for Racial Equity Through Speculative Education
Introduction – Other suns: Designing for racial equity through speculative education
Antero Garcia and Nicole Mirra
1. Cyborg sociopolitical reconfigurations: Designing for speculative fabulation in learning
José Ramón Lizárraga
2. Early dawn toward imagining worlds
Amanda R. Tachine and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
3. Restorying a Black girl’s future: Using womanist storytelling methodologies to reimagine dominant narratives in computing education
Mia S. Shaw, James Joshua Coleman, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Yasmin B. Kafai
4. Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices
Kathleen Arada, Anastasia Sanchez, and Philip Bell
5. Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales
Antti Rajala, Michael Cole and Moises Esteban-Guitart
6. Critical policy analysis and gameplay
Leigh Patel
7. Organizing pedagogies: Transgressing campus-movement boundaries through radical study and action
Christopher R. Rogers, Ben Mendelsohn and Krystal Strong
Biography
Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. He has authored or edited more than 20 books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America.
Nicole Mirra is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Her research utilizes participatory design methods in classroom, community, and digital spaces to collaboratively create civic learning environments with youth and educators that disrupt structures of racial injustice and creatively compose liberatory social futures.
