Tanya Elias argues, "the literature of feminized craftwork offers insights for instead understanding educational technology as a tension-negotiating practice through which we might learn to see and experience alternate possibilities in our field." She seeks to "reconstitute not only the missing links in academic practices, but also and especially the missing people," and to this end to "draw into this paper the experiences of globally dispersed women engaged in 'traditional' craftwork, including sewing and weaving, whose expertise as skilled technologists has historically been overlooked." She draws on three examples to illustrate the idea: n open online course entitled Phonar (Photography and Narrative), the Domain of One's Own (DoOO), and the FemEdTech Quilt of Care and Justice in Open Education. This is a dense rich paper (19 page PDF) that resonates well with my own experiences as a learning technologist working on a craft in a community where we as "craftworkers co-constructed both material and meaning in ways that changed their social, cultural, economic, and material worlds."
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