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TY - JOUR
TI - Designing for social justice: A decolonial exploration of how to develop EdTech for refugees
AU - Barnes, Katrina
AU - Emerusenge, Aime Parfait
AU - Rabi, Asma
AU - Ullah, Noor
AU - Mazari, Haani
AU - Moustafa, Nariman
AU - Thakrar, Jayshree
AU - Zhao, Annette
AU - Koomar, Saalim
T2 - Education Sciences
AB - This paper reflects on the lived experiences of young refugees located in Pakistan and Rwanda when interacting with education technology (EdTech) during and following displacement. We offer a broad decolonial commentary on issues related to the design and development of EdTech initiatives for refugees, noting some of the historical trends prevalent in the education and emergencies sector. We are guided by questions such as: Why EdTech to start with? Who designs the products? Where are they designed? How are they designed? And, which power dynamics are at play during the design process? From this, we draw on qualitative data generated through three focus groups, where we explore young refugees’ experiences of EdTech. The focus group included a creative element inviting participants to imagine what a liberatory EdTech practice would look like. We aim to illustrate the practical implications of design choices taken by EdTech developers and, from this, recommend a set of justice-centred design principles for developers of EdTech in refugee contexts. These insights relate specifically to the experiences of refugees in Rwanda and Pakistan, though we also discuss the implications of these learnings for other contexts.
DA - 2024/01/09/
PY - 2024
DO - 10.3390/educsci14010077
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 14
IS - 1
SP - 77
J2 - Education Sciences
LA - en
SN - 2227-7102
ST - Designing for Social Justice
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/1/77
Y2 - 2024/01/12/12:59:26
ER -

TY - JOUR
TI - Designing for social justice: A decolonial exploration of how to develop EdTech for refugees
AU - Barnes, Katrina
AU - Emerusenge, Aime Parfait
AU - Rabi, Asma
AU - Ullah, Noor
AU - Mazari, Haani
AU - Moustafa, Nariman
AU - Thakrar, Jayshree
AU - Zhao, Annette
AU - Koomar, Saalim
T2 - Education Sciences
AB - This paper reflects on the lived experiences of young refugees located in Pakistan and Rwanda when interacting with education technology (EdTech) during and following displacement. We offer a broad decolonial commentary on issues related to the design and development of EdTech initiatives for refugees, noting some of the historical trends prevalent in the education and emergencies sector. We are guided by questions such as: Why EdTech to start with? Who designs the products? Where are they designed? How are they designed? And, which power dynamics are at play during the design process? From this, we draw on qualitative data generated through three focus groups, where we explore young refugees’ experiences of EdTech. The focus group included a creative element inviting participants to imagine what a liberatory EdTech practice would look like. We aim to illustrate the practical implications of design choices taken by EdTech developers and, from this, recommend a set of justice-centred design principles for developers of EdTech in refugee contexts. These insights relate specifically to the experiences of refugees in Rwanda and Pakistan, though we also discuss the implications of these learnings for other contexts.
DA - 2024/01/09/
PY - 2024
DO - 10.3390/educsci14010077
DP - Crossref
VL - 14
IS - 1
SP - 77
LA - en
SN - 2227-7102
ST - Designing for social justice
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/1/77
Y2 - 2025/07/10/13:58:59
L1 - https://inee.org/sites/default/files/resources/education-14-00077-v2.pdf
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