Shima Dadkhahfard & Miwa Aoki Takeuchi
Abstract
May’s Hidden Algorithm was illustrated based on the process discussed in this paper. We used May’s Hidden Algorithm illustrations to evoke the power of artistic renderings for public communication of research. We have investigated underlying racial ideologies of the artist/researcher in the illustrations. We transformed our ethnographic findings around subjugated embodied disciplinary knowledge of May’s Hidden Algorithm into artistic renderings to initiate discussion with teacher candidate participants on equity in school mathematics teaching. In the process of participatory design of arts, the artist/researcher engaged in multiple conversations with the teacher candidates through iterative redesigns centered on these discussions. Based on video data, interview data and the artist/researcher’s reflexive accounts, we examined whether and how the collaboration between the artist/researcher and teacher candidate participants could open spaces for ideological expansion. Our findings demonstrate that iterative cycles of participatory redesign of arts, focusing on racial ideologies, can be generative toward ideological expansions toward equity.
Dadkhahfard, S. & Takeuchi, M. A. (2022). Iterative, reflexive, and generative processes of participatory design of arts: Interrogating racial ideologies in design. In Chinn, C., Tan, E., Chan, C., & Kali, Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2022 (pp. 1021-1024). International Society of the Learning Sciences.