ICLS Hybrid Symposium | iHY-4_ARTS-MAKING | Reimagining Learning through Arts & Making: Creative Identity Work in Partnership

This hybrid symposium brings together learning sciences research exploring intergenerational identity development in relation to the arts and making as a means of deepening partnership. We look across continents through projects that center art and making as identity work, particularly for people navigating historic oppression, to better understand the ways these creative acts can provide pathways of resistance and reimagination. We follow the conference theme to reimagine the ways that learning scientists interpret “impactful learning experiences” (Fishman et al., 2013) in partnerships that emphasize notions of joy and creation as meaningful forms of reimagining learning in our present global context. Each paper reimagines how intergenerational participants inscribe themselves into the world, positioning acts of identity building as a deeply rooted engagement in possibility. Through this session, we strive to build conversations across these nine projects and in collaboration with attendees toward more nuanced, critical, and culturally grounded notions of partnership.