Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom...

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Nettrice R. Gaskins Leah Buechley

Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation

Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Nettrice R. Gaskins, Leah Buechley, Ruha Benjamin

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MIT Press
10 August 2021

Psychology

A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education.

A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education.

The growing maker movement in education has become an integral part of both STEM and STEAM learning, tapping into the natural DIY inclinations of creative people as well as the educational power of inventing or making things. And yet African American, Latino/a American, and Indigenous people are underrepresented in maker culture and education. In this book, Nettrice Gaskins proposes a novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education. Techno-vernacular creativity (TVC) connects technical literacy, equity, and culture, encompassing creative innovations produced by ethnic groups that are often overlooked.

TVC uses three main modes of activity- reappropriation, remixing, and improvisation. Gaskins looks at each of the three modes in turn, guiding readers from research into practice. Drawing on real-world examples, she shows how TVC creates dynamic learning environments where underrepresented ethnic students feel that they belong. Students who remix computationally, for instance, have larger toolkits of computational skills with which to connect cultural practices to STEAM subjects; reappropriation offers a way to navigate cultural repertoires; improvisation is firmly rooted in cultural and creative practices. Finally, Gaskins explores an equity-oriented approach that makes a distinction between conventional or dominant pedagogical approaches and culturally relevant or responsive making methods and practices. She describes TVC habits of mind and suggests methods of instructions and projects.

By: Nettrice R. Gaskins, Leah Buechley
Afterword by: Ruha Benjamin
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262542661
ISBN 10: 0262542668
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 10 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Foreword by Leah Buechley ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xv Introduction 1 Part I: Reappropriation Chapter 1: Self-taught Engineering, Upcycling and Speculative Design 15 Chapter 2: Hitting Switches & The Hero's Journey 31 Part II: Remixing Chapter 3: Conceptual Remixing and Computation 53 Chapter 4: Remixing in Teaching and Learning 71 Part III: Improvisation Chapter 5: Tangible and Embodied Improvisation 89 Chapter 6: Improvisational STEAM Learning and Making 105 Part IV: TVC and Culturally Relevant Making Chapter 7: TVC and Implications for STEAM Teaching and Learning 125 Conclusion: Building a Culturally Relevant Maker Toolkit 137 Afterword by Ruha Benjamin 149 References 153 Index 171

Nettrice R. Gaskins is a digital artist, youth educator, independent academic, and cultural critic. Previously Director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy, she is currently Assistant Director of the STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University.