Robot for Mayor: Creative Pedagogies with Social Robots in Secondary Education for Youth Civic Agency

aut.relation.endpage1198
aut.relation.issue06
aut.relation.journalCreative Education
aut.relation.startpage1176
aut.relation.volume14
dc.contributor.authorSosa, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Rebeca
dc.contributor.authorBradford, Penny
dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-31T03:50:34Z
dc.date.available2023-10-31T03:50:34Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents new ways to imagine and carry out creative pedagogies that use robots to teach socio-technical topics. The paper presents key theoretical and methodological ideas that informed a project co-designed in partnership with teachers and learners from Manurewa High School. This project portrays a speculative story of an affable humanoid robot who shares its goal of running for Mayor of the city of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand and asks children for advice on how to prepare for this future role. The findings from this case study are organised around three main themes: suspending disbelief, powerful questions, and breaking the fourth wall. A discussion around learning using digital technologies more creatively and more critically closes the paper. The appropriateness of robots for creative and dialogic learning calls for the participation of learners and teachers in playful co-creation activities that transgress the conventional roles and scripts in the classroom and the curriculum.
dc.identifier.citationCreative Education, ISSN: 2151-4755 (Print); 2151-4771 (Online), Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 14(06), 1176-1198. doi: 10.4236/ce.2023.146075
dc.identifier.doi10.4236/ce.2023.146075
dc.identifier.issn2151-4755
dc.identifier.issn2151-4771
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/16850
dc.publisherScientific Research Publishing, Inc.
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=125601
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject3903 Education Systems
dc.subject39 Education
dc.subject13 Education
dc.titleRobot for Mayor: Creative Pedagogies with Social Robots in Secondary Education for Youth Civic Agency
dc.typeJournal Article
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