Generative contexts: generating value between community and educational settings

Abstract

As educators and researchers, the authors of this paper participated, at different points in time, in a National Science Foundation funded research program to place culturally responsive education into generative justice frameworks. We discovered that the mechanisms to create generative contexts-contexts where value can possibly be returned to the community where the people generating that value live and work-in-school, after-school, and not-school were not uniform and required individual attention and care. One can think of generative contexts as the educational preconditions for generative justice. We aim to show how generative contexts are crucial to understanding a larger theory of generative justice. Next is a generative context after-school where a student demonstrates soldering skills that she learned from family members. The third is a not-school "E-Waste to Makerspace" workshop where students created garden-technology designs for low-income communities. KEYWORDSAsset building; culturally responsible teaching; educational programs. RESUMENComo educadores e investigadores, los autores de este artículo participaron en un programa de investigación financiado por la NSF (Fundación Nacional para la Ciencia de Estados Unidos) con la intención de situar la educación sensible a la diversidad cultural en el marco de la justicia generativa. Descubrimos que los mecanismos para crear contextos generativos-contextos en los que existe la posibilidad de retornar valor a la comunidad donde se genera, vive y trabaja-escolares, extraescolares y no-escolares no eran uniformes y, por tanto, requerían una atención y cuidado individuales. Podemos entender los contextos generativos como los requisitos para la educación en materia de justicia generativa. Nuestro objetivo es mostrar la crucial importancia del contexto a la hora de comprender la teoría de justicia generativa en su sentido más amplio. Para ello proporcionamos tres ejemplos de contextos generativos. El primero, un contexto escolar generativo, donde una profesora de tecnología invitó a clase a una comunidad de peluqueros para ayudar a enseñar a los alumnos geometría transformacional haciendo trenzas; una destreza, además, relevante para sus estudiantes afro-americano/as. El segundo es un contexto extraescolar, en el que un estudiante demostró sus habilidades como soldador, las cuales había aprendido de miembros de su familia. El tercero es un taller no escolar, "E-waste to makerspace", donde los estudiantes diseñaron un jardín tecnológico para personas con bajos recursos. PALABRAS CLAVEConstrucción de activos; educación culturalmente responsable; programas educativos.

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