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2011 AERA Presidential Address: Designing Resilient Ecologies: Social Design Experiments and a New Social Imagination

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2011 AERA Presidential Address: Designing Resilient Ecologies: Social Design Experiments and a New Social Imagination

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This article is about designing for educational possibilities?designs that in their inception, social organization, and implementation squarely address issues of cultural diversity, social inequality, and robust learning. I discuss an approach to design-based research, social design experiments, that privileges a social scientific inquiry organized around a new sociocultural imagination, with an expansive understanding of how people can learn resonantly, as they live together productively and interculturally. I present a case of a postindustrial mining town to illustrate what can be learned from ecological approaches to help us design, sustain, and re-mediate vulnerable ecologies. I also present an educational case from my work and one from architecture as arguments for consequential design interventions for nondominant communities.

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Date

In publication

Volume

45

Issue

3

Pages

187-196

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Research/Scholarly Media

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Published Text

Scholarship genre

Commentary/Editorial

Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

0013-189X

Citation

Gutiérrez, K. D. (2016). 2011 AERA Presidential Address: Designing Resilient Ecologies: Social Design Experiments and a New Social Imagination. Educational Researcher, 45(3), 187–196. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X16645430

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