Another Step Forward: Engaging the Political in Learning

A critical search for the learning object across school and out-of-school contexts: A case of entrepreneurship education

“…In critical studies, the ideals are claimed to be coming from the (neoliberal) political view in which the individual ("internal") is "at the center of social life and economic activity" and which makes her "responsible for the economic conditions of her existence in society" (Holborow, 2015, p. 94, see also Foucault, 2008. The ideals underlying a worldview of marketdriven reality sustain tensions between the relationship of the individual to communities, public values, and the public good (on the neoliberal criticism addressed to science studies, see McKinney de Royston & Sengupta-Irving, 2019;Rahm & Brandt, 2016;Smith, 2011).…”

Theories of learning as theories of society: A contrapuntal approach to expanding disciplinary authenticity in computing

“…As a field, we are at a parallel inflection point today. Increasingly, researchers in the Learning Sciences are showing that studying learning in real-world settings entails understanding learning as political (Booker, Vossoughi, & Hooper, 2014;McKinney de Royston & Sengupta-Irving, 2019;Philip, Bang, & Jackson, 2018;The Politics of Learning Writing Collective, 2017). From this perspective, the political nature of the "real world" and the learning within it are inseparable.…”

Community Infrastructuring as Necessary Ingenuity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…We seek to understand people's sensemaking of this pandemic and their related action within a consequential context that acknowledges the interwoven impacts of this reality. Such an acknowledgement necessitates deeper engagement with the political and ethical dimensions of learning, often neglected in the study of how people learn, in order to build more complex and justice-centered understandings of that learning (McKinney de Royston & Sengupta-Irving, 2019).…”