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Co-constructing a Framework for Abolitionist, Anti Colonial Science Teaching and Learning

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Van Den Akker's (2007)  call to changes in research methodology and discussion of the impact of research on practice and the class discussion/writing prompt of "_____ needs a way to _____" has me getting a clearer picture of how I need to better define the scope and problem in my POP.

Stovall's (2016) cautioning of falling into default "colonial relationships" that often happen between academia and those they are "researching" and introduction to methodology like counterstory and frameworks like the 3Ds of neoliberal corporate education reform have me primed and excited to take on this work with my problem of practice this semester. How will my identities influence me as a researcher? How do I disrupt the default narratives and relationships? How do I co-construct the research that is to be done?

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How This Class Will Also Cross-Apply At Work

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How This Class Will Also Cross-Apply At Work

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Because science is just building out, I am actually in a matrix position where I work mostly with Partnership teams but am actually part of the Program Team on the organization chart. We have monthly design labs that I've only been partially able to attend all year due to my partner facing responsibilities. Already the readings in the initial weeks have bolstered my understanding of what we are doing in those sessions and how these concepts are already applying to my daily work in unnamed ways that I'm now able to give more deliberate attention to. My manager and her manager are excited about my takeaways from class discussions and readings.  I already pitched the idea that we should do an organization-wide "Freedom Dreaming Design Lab" where we use design thinking in small groups to tackle questions like "how could we recreate a housing system within America's free market that doesn't reinforce economic and racial segregation?"

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Intrigued and started flipping through Brown's discussion of "Design Activism" in Chapter 9.

Planning to continue reading along in "Research as Resistance" and "Decolonizing Methodology" with a wondering about what the different design stages could look like, especially the "Act" stages (right).

Chosen for the Antiracist Writing Workshop hosted by AU for beginning of June

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Question Sitting With Me After Session 1:

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Question Sitting With Me After Session 1:

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What does co-construction look like within the Liberatory Design process when research is done with an explicit antiracist, anticolonial methodology?

What does antiracist problem of practice work look like?

Not enough to just create/add knowledge

Need to disrupt traditional systems and orthodoxy

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Brown (2019) continues... "ability to tap into intuitive qualities such as delight, beauty, personal meaning and cultural resonance" (p. 3).

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Based on the Brown (2019) Introduction, Design Thinking is the deliberate and intentional re-thinking through of an issue or problem.  It "expands the canvas" by providing a "human-centered, creative problem-solving approach" (p.1).