Other Suns

This volume outlines powerful theoretical and methodological approaches for expanding the possibilities of educational research. By illuminating speculative education as an emerging scholarly practice, this collection offers pragmatic guidance for scholarly worldbuilding.

Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. He has authored or edited more than 20 books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America. Nicole Mirra is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Her research utilizes participatory design methods in classroom, community, and digital spaces to collaboratively create civic learning environments with youth and educators that disrupt structures of racial injustice and creatively compose liberatory social futures.

Introduction - Other suns: Designing for racial equity through speculative education 1. Cyborg sociopolitical reconfigurations: Designing for speculative fabulation in learning 2. Early dawn toward imagining worlds 3. Restorying a Black girl's future: Using womanist storytelling methodologies to reimagine dominant narratives in computing education 4. Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices 5. Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales 6. Critical policy analysis and gameplay 7. Organizing pedagogies: Transgressing campus-movement boundaries through radical study and action