ICLS Symposium | iY-11_LEARNING-VIBES | Locating Vibes as the Felt Dimensions in Learning

This symposium provides theoretical and empirical contributions for conceptualizing the felt, relational, and often unspoken dimensions of learning – what we are naming as the vibes of learning ecologies. Drawing on interdisciplinary onto-epistomological frameworks, the symposium elevates vibes as an educational construct that is consequential to developing equitable learning with students from non-dominant communities. Through robust analyses of teacher and student interactions that occurred across distinct out-of-school learning ecologies, the respective papers in this symposium: (1) offer a working theory of vibes based on related concepts across disciplines (2) describe teaching and learning experiences in which the colloquial use of vibes supported the development of intuitive pedagogical approaches and; (3) make a case for the continued investigation of vibes in the learning sciences as legitimate dimensions impacting how we teach, learn, and engage in world-making.