Drafting for JLS article on transformative action

Strategically, I think it’s a good idea to argue that being more inclusive is essential for achieving the mission of LS, not just for making LS more equitable. -> Are we arguing toward goals that are already endorsed? (What does matter) Or about what ought to be our goals? (What ought to matter?)
-> LIFE Center diagram: If we want to study learning, we need to look at where learning takes place.

What is the epistemological ground??? -> Why is this not just outreach? -> Why is this learning?

Is transformative action a methodology? An affinity group?

How does learning sciences contribute to action on the ground. -> OK, so to make all this not just an asterisk. / Moderating factor -> AND not grounded in DEI.

How does action look different in different places around the world?

Indigenous epistemology is a big thing in LS. -> CRT.

Being, doing, becoming Epistemology, Ontology, Axiology

“Hearsay ethnography”

Where does learning happen? Learning happens in a globalized world.

What prior work do we want to speak with?

  • Scribner & Cole
  • Affinity groups.
  • Get outside of identity politics.
    • From monolithic blackness to diasporic blackness.
  • This probably is not a call to be more like ethnography.
  • RPP.

I am really not interested in homeopathic medicine.

We need to cross