ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Symposium · ALP 1300

Renewing Socio-cultural theory in a Networked, Decentralized Supercapitalist Society

Three papers and discussion ask what socio-cultural theory offers for understanding learning amid extremism, online fragmentation, and supercapitalist cultural structures. Cases draw on community partners including Homeboy Industries, academic esports federations, and Indigenous education partners to examine how macro cultural trends shape learning today.

Sociocultural & Activity-Theory Frameworks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Broadening the Boundaries of the Learning Sciences: Reclaiming the Territory of Latin American Contributions to Educational Research

This symposium reimagines the Learning Sciences through Latin American epistemologies, weaving studies of Mapuche weaving mathematics, Uruguayan rural futures, and WhatsApp organizing at the Mexico-US border. Empirical work across Colombia, Ecuador, and beyond puts constructionism, ethnomathematics, and decolonial speculation in dialogue with field theories.

Sociocultural & Activity-Theory Frameworks

2:30 PM

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Symposium · ALP 1300

Scaling Communities of Learners: How Size, Power, and Partnerships Shape Political Learning

A symposium using sociocultural and critical theories of power to examine how community scale shapes political learning for equity and justice. Across four cases ranging from organizational change in graduate education to a youth design-build group, teacher-leaders organizing for integration, and a single teacher-mentor dyad, it traces how transformation is mediated across community sizes.

Sociocultural & Activity-Theory Frameworks