ICLS Symposium | iY-17_LATIN-AMERICA | Broadening the Boundaries of the Learning Sciences: Reclaiming the Territory of Latin American Contributions to Educational Research

From Mapuche palikantun rhythms in Chile to Uruguayan rural futures, from WhatsApp organizing at the Mexico-US border to Brazilian constructionist reinterpretations—this symposium weaves together studies reimagining the Learning Sciences through Latin American epistemologies. We gather not to import theories from distant academies, but to honor knowledge systems flowering in our territories: mathematical wisdom in Mapuche weaving, learning that unfolds at the Tijuana-San Diego border, resistance enacted through digital practices. Our work traces how communities transform constraints into creativity, how intergenerational memory becomes a pedagogical method, how the periphery generates its own centers of gravity. Through empirical studies spanning Colombia, Ecuador, and beyond, we demonstrate the generative potential of putting Learning Sciences theories in dialogue with Latin American frameworks—where constructionism converses with conscientização, ethnomathematics meets epistemic footprints, and speculation becomes decolonial praxis. Together, we offer distinctive interpretative lenses that expand the field by centering community knowledge and lived experiences situated in Latin America.