Outgoing Editors’ Note: The <i>Journal of the Learning Sciences</i> as a Mirror of Trends in the Field

Radinsky, Josh; Tabak, Iris

doi:10.1080/10508406.2017.1260414

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“…More recently, in the learning sciences, scholars have called for more attention to the critical role that social experiences and identities play in learning and engagement in formal and informal education. For example, a recent review article by the outgoing editors of The Journal of the Learning Sciences (Radinsky and Tabak, 2017) cited the following areas as having received increased attention: "social justice as a context of learning," gendered and racialized experiences and identities (Langer-Osuna, 2015), socioeconomic inequities (Conner, 2014;Esmonde, 2014) and learning through social justice movements (Jurow and Shea, 2015). Moreover, critical scholarship on racialized and gendered design practices in industry and academia has propelled greater attention to the design of technologies for widespread meaning making and information seeking (Kafai et al, 2016;Noble, 2018;Noble and Tynes, 2016;Richard and Gray, 2018) and youth and adult content creation (Richard, 2017;Richard and Kafai, 2016).…”

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Reframing designs for learning in context: culturally-situated and social justice research approaches in the learning and information sciences

Richard

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2020

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This special issue on culturally-situated and social justice research comes to the fore at a time of great global and national uncertainty. It was proposed and launched in early 2019, yet, during this contemporary health and social crisisand in the face of an international pandemic of proportions not experienced in our lifetimesthere has never been more local and global attention shone on the social, cultural and economic inequities at the core of its central themes. The ramifications of social injustice have had measurable and consequential results for many internationally and in North America, with "income inequality [. . .] at a level not seen since 1928," anxiety and depression at "epidemic proportions" and "homelessness in the United States and Canada. . . declared a national emergency" (Thrift and Sugarman, 2019, pp. 3-4).Simultaneously, social justice movements, which have grown in strength and numbers in the past decade with the rise of social media and growing inequities, have accelerated around injustices made more visible during the pandemic and the looming United States presidential election. The reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter movement during the global health crisis was both a response to disproportionate police violence against Black communities and other racially and ethnically minoritized communities (Dave et al., 2020;Eligon, 2020), and broader grievances and recognition of economic and racial inequities and health disparities that disproportionately affect people of colorwho are overrepresented amongst the essential workforceduring the pandemic (Elbaum, 2020). The new wave of protests also heightened calls for awareness around institutional and structural inequities, prompting strikes by scientists and academics on June 10, 2020, using the Twitter hashtags #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia to raise awareness of systemic biases faced by minoritized scholars generally, and Black scholars in particular (Gwynne and Durrani, 2020).Social justice and critical engagement in culturally-situated learning have become especially important in recent years when international relationships and civic and political involvement with information have been affected by social media and emerging technologies. Digital spaces have invited not only new cultures of online consumption and production but also new forms of activism (Jenkins, 2012;Kligler-Vilenchik et al., 2012;Stornaiuolo and Thomas, 2017). Fan activismor activism around shared media contentcan provide a "powerful training ground for future activists and community organizers" (Jenkins, 2012, Section 2.6). However, the digital media landscape can also be tenuous for resistance, which can open up minoritized and marginalized groups to discrimination,

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