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Replacing Representation With Imagination: Finding Ingenuity in Everyday Practices

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Replacing Representation With Imagination: Finding Ingenuity in Everyday Practices

Abstract/Description

This chapter is a call for consequential education research that has transformative potential: intellectually, educationally, and socially. It is about learning to see differently. It is an argument about seeing our work with youth and communities in ways that can help education researchers see ingenuity instead of ineptness and inability, to see resilience instead of deficit, and to imagine futures with youth from nondominant communities instead of imposing failure. We use the notion of “learn-ing to see” both metaphorically and as a theoretical lens and methodological guide to illustrate how rigorous and consequential education research can help us imagine and design new forms of learning and schooling. We argue that rupturing educational inequality also involves new forms of inquiry that help reconceptualize what it means to work with nondominant communities.

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41

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1

Pages

30-60

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Published Text

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Synthesis/Overview

Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

0091-732X

Citation

Gutiérrez, K. D., Cortes, K., Cortez, A., DiGiacomo, D., Higgs, J., Johnson, P., Ramón Lizárraga, J., Mendoza, E., Tien, J., & Vakil, S. (2017). Replacing Representation With Imagination: Finding Ingenuity in Everyday Practices. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 30–60. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X16687523

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