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Agency, Identity, And Writing: Perspectives From First-Generation Students Of Color In Their First Year Of College, Jie Park

Education

This paper highlights the perspectives of first-generation students of color in their first year of college, and the ways in which they exercised agency in their writing. Framed by definitions of agency as mediated action that creates meaning, the paper reports on qualitative data collected from a summer writing program for first-generation students and students of color, and from writing samples and follow-up interviews with six students who participated in the summer program. Findings suggest that students in their first year of college leveraged their social and discoursal identities to offer new ways of understanding an issue. They also wrote …

Learning From The Knowledge Builders: Student Perspectives On The Challenges Of Classroom Knowledge Building Communities, Katerine Bielaczyc

Education

How do students make sense of the change process from more traditional learning environments to a Knowledge Building Community classroom (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2006)? What challenges do they identify in their own participation and the development of the collective as a knowledge building community? This research followed a team of middle school students and teachers over the course of two years. Student interviews focused on the community s knowledge work in Knowledge Forum and their development as knowledge builders. Students identified structures that both supported and challenged student socialization into knowledge building communities. The research also examines how students experiences …

Infrastructuring For Knowledge Building: Advancing A Framework For Sustained Innovation, Shiri Kashi, Yotam Hod, Alwyn Vwen Yen Lee, Guangji Yuan, Etan Cohene, Katerine Bielaczyc, Bodong Chen, Jianwei Zhang

Education

Despite the wide implementations and extensive research base that has developed on knowledge building communities, continued efforts are required to address the challenges of implementing innovations in diverse contexts as well as sustaining them over time. In this paper, we draw on the idea of infrastructuring as an emergent, multilevel approach that can shed new light on ways to do this. After defining the notion of infrastructuring and showing its unique potential to sustain knowledge building, we examine three cases of infrastructuring within the context of efforts to grow knowledge building innovations in existing educational ecologies. This paper offers some …

Tracks Magazine (Issue #1: Bridge), Sophie Gill, The Tracks Magazine Team

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Tracks magazine is an art and literary magazine based in Worcester, MA. It was established in 2022 during the senior capstone sequence within the Community, Youth, & Education Studies department at Clark University. Tracks was created with the desire to provide another outlet for artists in the area to share and connect with others with the wider goal to explore the potential of art to enact social change and build community.

This project is for the entire main south neighborhood. This magazine is structured differently than most. Instead of having a small group of people create and determine the entirety …