Speculative Pedagogies

Antero Garcia is an associate professor at Stanford University and coauthor of Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction. Nicole Mirra is an associate professor of urban teacher education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and author of Educating for Empathy: Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement.

Contents (Tentative)


Introduction

“Always a War Story”: Speculative Pedagogies and Breaking the Narrative of Multicultural Education Possibilities

Antero Garcia and Nicole Mirra


Part I: Designing Learning Futures


1. Critical Constructionist Design: A Design Framework and Analytic Tool for Developing and Documenting Speculative Learning Experiences

Nathan Holbert, Michael B. Dando, and Isabel Correa


2. “A Deep Reckoning”: Re/Mixing Literacies and Imaginative Rupture in “Let’s Talk About Election 2020”

Emma P. Bene, Emma C. Gargroetzi, Lynne M. Zummo, and Alexandra R. Aguilar


3. Speculative Pedagogies in Video Gameplay: Designing for New Social Futures in Collaborative World-Making

Arturo Cortez and José Ramón Lizárraga


4. Abolitionist and Afrofuturist Game Design Pedagogies

Matthew W. Coopilton, Brendesha M. Tynes, Olivia Peace, and De’Andra Johnson


Part II: Kindling Community


5. Dreaming Together: Exploring Youth-Adult Partnerships in Speculative Educational Design

Lauren Kelly


6. Community-Engaged Culturally Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning as an Approach to Speculative Education

Jingjing Sun, Ronda Howlett, Debbie Hogenson, Lindsey M. Nichols, Anisa N. Goforth, Sisilia Kusumaningsih, Niki Graham,and Emily Brooke


7. “I Think a Song Would Be Good”: Grounding Youth Speculative Practices in Theories of Relationality and Desire

Lee Melvin M. Peralta and Joanne E. Marciano


8. Participatory Methodologies TO Transform the Project of Schooling: Student Voices Leading

Leyda W. Garcia, Edwin Cruz, Jaune Reyez, Aliza Manalo, Eduardo Galindo, Adriana Rios-Cruz, Alex Alejo, Nareli J. Lopez, Le’kie Hatfield-Whitlock, Claire Matias, and Walter Hernandez Mejia


9. “Is This How It’s Always Going to Be?”: Speculative Teacher Education With(in) Community Toward Liberatory Praxis

Kristen Jackson and Rubén A. González


10. Education as a Fundamental Right: A Speculative Narrative about Educational Dignity

Raquel Isaac, Maria Karina Sanchez, Duy Tran, Tania Soto Valenzuela, and mandy wong, with Remi Kalir, on behalf of the Right2Learn Dignity Lab


Endnotes


Index


About the Editors and Contributors