ICLS Symposium | iY-12_GLOBAL-SOUTH-1 | Relational Becoming As Global South Side Methodologies

This symposium asks what it means to engage or practice community-based methodologies through the lens of relational becoming in Global South Side contexts. We focus our inquiry and analysis of relational becoming from an ontological approach to design (Escobar, 2018), concerned with the ways we live, design, and become within educational research that upholds the foundational presence and power of communities. Across cases in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Denver, and China, we explore community-based methodologies, in ethnographic, and participatory design-based contexts (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016) and intimately study our processes of becoming among families, teachers, community members, and students. Specifically, we explore the tensions and possibilities of becoming in relation within interstitial spaces and learning ecologies that emerge from local and historicized understandings of self and place, how they influence our methodological choices and research designs, and how these designs too, design us.