Participatory Design Research and Educational Justice: Studying Learning and Relations Within Social Change Making
This special issue brings together a set of articles by scholars working to expand equitable forms of learning and teaching that contribute to a socially just democracy—or what we might call “social change making” projects—and to advance fundamental knowledge of learning and development. Many scholars have charted and enacted innovative forms of theory, method, and praxis to extend the possibilities of productively disrupting historically powered relations as part of working towards equity and forms of just democracies. Often these efforts are focused on developing effective interventions that cultivate transformative agency among historically marginalized individuals and communities toward specific and consequential ends. To accomplish these goals, increasingly scholars are focused on the development of theories of learning that account for critical historicity, power, and relationality. This special issue aims to contribute to this scholarship by drawing attention to growing engagements in the field of education with a method that we are calling participatory design research (PDR). The works featured in this special issue are primarily from early career scholars, some in collaboration with more senior scholars, who explore the ways in which PDR is beginning to shape a newer generation of research epistemologies. These epistemologies may be essential for expanding our fundamental knowledge of learning as well as developing theory that can help create sustainable and transformative social change. Our introduction aims to chart some of the emergent contributions and future directions we think PDR may afford.
Social Design Experiment/Social Design-Based Experiment (SDBE)
Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI)
Open Access PDF (via Northwestern Website)
Bang, M., & Vossoughi, S. (2016). Participatory Design Research and Educational Justice: Studying Learning and Relations Within Social Change Making. Cognition and Instruction, 34(3), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2016.1181879
Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise
Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Participatory Design Research and Educational Justice
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