ABSTRACT

Background

We examine the development of youth sociopolitical consciousness and agency in an eighth-grade science classroom as students of color engage in critical speculative design activities, exploring the multi-scalar, racial realities and possibilities of the science and engineering of pervasive digital technologies—specifically involving the entanglement of lightwaves and melanin in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Methods

Through case studies of two girls of color (ES and GS), we analyze the youths’ learning pathways across three instructional phases: threading practices (learners’ sociopolitical interpretation); weaving practices (learners’ coordination of multiple ways of knowing and being in relation to their interpretation); and patternmaking practices (learners’ visions of more just patterns, practices, and politics through speculative design).

Findings

Our analyses show how youth use their felt, cultural, and community knowledges, as well as their developing scientific knowledge of physics, to confront and analyze manifestations of racial bias in technologies. The findings highlight the significance of teachers’ pedagogical support and providing opportunities for meaningful transdisciplinary science investigations and speculative designing for more just and thriving futures.

Contribution

The Critical Speculative Design Pedagogy framework developed suggests how such activities in the classroom can cultivate equitable, expansive science learning that is consequential to youth and their communities.

中文翻译：

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青年作为种族正义的模式制定者：科学中的思辨设计教学法如何通过激进的护理实践促进恢复性未来

摘要

背景

当有色人种学生参与批判性的思辨设计活动，探索多标量、种族现实以及普遍数字技术科学与工程的可能性时，我们在八年级的科学课堂上研究青年社会政治意识和能动性的发展——特别是涉及光波和黑色素在计算机视觉和人工智能 (AI) 技术中的纠缠。

方法

通过对两个有色人种女孩（ES 和 GS）的案例研究，我们分析了青少年在三个教学阶段的学习途径：线程练习（学习者的社会政治解释）；编织实践（学习者协调多种认识方式和与他们的解释有关的存在方式）；和模式制作实践（学习者通过推测设计对更公正的模式、实践和政治的看法）。

发现

我们的分析表明，青年人如何利用他们的感受、文化和社区知识，以及他们不断发展的物理学科学知识，来面对和分析技术中种族偏见的表现。研究结果强调了教师教学支持的重要性，并为有意义的跨学科科学研究和推测性设计提供了机会，以实现更公正和繁荣的未来。

贡献

所开发的批判性思辨设计教学法框架表明，课堂上的此类活动如何能够培养对青年及其社区具有重要意义的公平、广泛的科学学习。