Toward Equity by Design
Kris Gutierrez, Professor
Education
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This project seeks undergraduates that are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for how we can re-imagine what equity means in educational discourse. Through extensive analyses of social design-based experiments (SDBE's), URAP students will learn how we can;
1) Leverage the histories and repertoires of practice of non-dominant communities in learning ecologies
2) Co-design new tools and practices that bring the past as a resource into the future
3) Understand the function of diversity in conferring resilience to ecologies
4) Develop critical and world-making analyses for how we can re-imagine learning and schooling.
Role: The learning outcomes and tasks of undergraduates are to:
1) Examine video data of conferences where faculty discuss social design-based experiments (SDBE's)
2) Participate in weely hour-long research group meetings to discuss analyses and findings
3) Create analyses cented around culture, equity, and power in education
4) Develop qualitative research methodologies and analyses as the team works toward presentations and publications
Qualifications: Undergraduate in 1st or 2nd year and/or transfer students (prefer students with an interest in the field of education) are highly encouraged to apply. However, if you are a 3rd or 4th year and are interested in these topics, please do apply as you will be considered.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Isaac Felix
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: 2121 Berkeley Way Ofc 4426
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology