Daniela K Digiacomo
Biographic Data
| ID | 641246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela K Digiacomo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela K |
| FAMILY NAME | Digiacomo |
| SIGNATURE | DIGIACOMO D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9817-7135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Running in the Direction I Was Already Walking: Reflections from an Experienced Social Studies Teacher on Educating for Democracy in the United States
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast
Living and learning in the United States in 2023 is different than it was decades ago. The proliferation of mis/disinformation vis-a-vis digital means is causing “truth decay,” with an increase in disagreement amongst citizens about what is opinion and fact. Such disagreements constrain opportunities for healthy democratic dialogue. To repair and rebuild dialogue, citizens need information literacy. This article draws upon qualitative data from f…
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity From Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People
The out-of-school time (OST) field in the United States has a complex history. The push to offer programming reflects a legacy rooted in moral panics about racially minoritized youth. However, this field is populated by community spaces that act as multipurpose sites of culturally sustaining educational practices supporting positive youth development. We report findings from interviews with OST leaders, youth workers, policy influencers, and yout…
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships
This article tells the story of the Kentucky Student Voice Team (KSVT), a youth organization that is working toward educational justice in Kentucky by amplifying student voice in education research, advocacy, and policy. In particular, this study examines what makes a healthy intergenerational partnership. Challenges and opportunities within contemporary collaborative research are also discussed
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools
Warning signs for the health of the American democracy abound. These challenges have multiple manifestations and multiple roots, but media and the Internet, more broadly, are implicated in prominent ways. Schools, the institutions charged with educating current and future generations, have a role to play in supporting the preparation of an informed citizenry. This study examines the extent to which state level legislation supports the provision o…
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during Covid-19
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, courses in higher education have increasingly been delivered via asynchronous online modalities. Although such modalities may allow instructors and students greater flexibility in how they engage with their courses, they increase the self-regulatory challenges learners experience. Students may feel less capable of regulating their learning in web-based modalities, which may increase procrastination and lo…
Coping with Covid-19 in Kentucky: Youth Examine Their Learning Lives
This article presents a youth-driven study to understand Kentucky students' learning-from-home experiences in the wake of COVID-19 statewide school closures. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective on human development and guided by a youth participatory action research approach to inquiry, this study employed a sequential mixed-methods design to examine how the pandemic shaped students' learning lives. Data sources include a statewide student su…
The Legitimatization of Young People’s Digital Media Practices Within Neoliberal Contexts and Ecologies
This panel focuses on different ways that practices of children, youth, and families are legitimatized (and deligitimatized) in schools, homes, and market places. With a focus on media consumption, the four papers examine the lived realities of families in the late 2010’s, a time period dominated by Trump-era politics, neoliberal ideologies, digital capitalisms and dilemmas of trust. In this moment, children and youth are positioned variously as …
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Civic Education in a Politically Polarized Era
A healthy democracy requires informed citizens on all sides of the political spectrum but extreme political polarization creates significant challenges. This study examines how teachers conceptualize civic education in an ideologically and racially diverse school district. Embedded within a research-practice partnership, this case offers timely insight into what civic education means to public school teachers in a politically polarized era and id…
The material and social constitution of interest
Replacing Representation With Imagination: Finding Ingenuity in Everyday Practices
T his chapter is a call for consequential education research that has transformative potential: intellectually, educationally, and socially.It is about learning to see differently.It is an argument about seeing our work with youth and communities in ways that can help education researchers see ingenuity instead of ineptness and inability, to see resilience instead of deficit, and to imagine futures with youth from nondominant communities instead …
Relational Equity as a Design Tool Within Making and Tinkering Activities
This article focuses on the partner-like relations that emerge between undergraduates and youth as they engage in "Making and Tinkering" activities in an afterschool learning ecology, and illustrates the potential for designed tinkering activity to produce relational equity among participants. Grounded in sociocultural theory, but leveraging theoretical contributions from learning sciences and tinkering research, we draw on ethnographic data acro…
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity From Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People
The out-of-school time (OST) field in the United States has a complex history. The push to offer programming reflects a legacy rooted in moral panics about racially minoritized youth. However, this field is populated by community spaces that act as multipurpose sites of culturally sustaining educational practices supporting positive youth development. We report findings from interviews with OST leaders, youth workers, policy influencers, and yout…
Civic Education in a Politically Polarized Era
A healthy democracy requires informed citizens on all sides of the political spectrum but extreme political polarization creates significant challenges. This study examines how teachers conceptualize civic education in an ideologically and racially diverse school district. Embedded within a research-practice partnership, this case offers timely insight into what civic education means to public school teachers in a politically polarized era and id…
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Relational Equity as a Design Tool Within Making and Tinkering Activities
This article focuses on the partner-like relations that emerge between undergraduates and youth as they engage in "Making and Tinkering" activities in an afterschool learning ecology, and illustrates the potential for designed tinkering activity to produce relational equity among participants. Grounded in sociocultural theory, but leveraging theoretical contributions from learning sciences and tinkering research, we draw on ethnographic data acro…
Replacing Representation With Imagination: Finding Ingenuity in Everyday Practices
T his chapter is a call for consequential education research that has transformative potential: intellectually, educationally, and socially.It is about learning to see differently.It is an argument about seeing our work with youth and communities in ways that can help education researchers see ingenuity instead of ineptness and inability, to see resilience instead of deficit, and to imagine futures with youth from nondominant communities instead …
The material and social constitution of interest
The Legitimatization of Young People’s Digital Media Practices Within Neoliberal Contexts and Ecologies
This panel focuses on different ways that practices of children, youth, and families are legitimatized (and deligitimatized) in schools, homes, and market places. With a focus on media consumption, the four papers examine the lived realities of families in the late 2010’s, a time period dominated by Trump-era politics, neoliberal ideologies, digital capitalisms and dilemmas of trust. In this moment, children and youth are positioned variously as …
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Civic Education in a Politically Polarized Era
A healthy democracy requires informed citizens on all sides of the political spectrum but extreme political polarization creates significant challenges. This study examines how teachers conceptualize civic education in an ideologically and racially diverse school district. Embedded within a research-practice partnership, this case offers timely insight into what civic education means to public school teachers in a politically polarized era and id…
Coping with Covid-19 in Kentucky: Youth Examine Their Learning Lives
This article presents a youth-driven study to understand Kentucky students' learning-from-home experiences in the wake of COVID-19 statewide school closures. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective on human development and guided by a youth participatory action research approach to inquiry, this study employed a sequential mixed-methods design to examine how the pandemic shaped students' learning lives. Data sources include a statewide student su…
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools
Warning signs for the health of the American democracy abound. These challenges have multiple manifestations and multiple roots, but media and the Internet, more broadly, are implicated in prominent ways. Schools, the institutions charged with educating current and future generations, have a role to play in supporting the preparation of an informed citizenry. This study examines the extent to which state level legislation supports the provision o…
College students’ self-regulation in asynchronous online courses during Covid-19
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, courses in higher education have increasingly been delivered via asynchronous online modalities. Although such modalities may allow instructors and students greater flexibility in how they engage with their courses, they increase the self-regulatory challenges learners experience. Students may feel less capable of regulating their learning in web-based modalities, which may increase procrastination and lo…
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast
Living and learning in the United States in 2023 is different than it was decades ago. The proliferation of mis/disinformation vis-a-vis digital means is causing “truth decay,” with an increase in disagreement amongst citizens about what is opinion and fact. Such disagreements constrain opportunities for healthy democratic dialogue. To repair and rebuild dialogue, citizens need information literacy. This article draws upon qualitative data from f…
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity From Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People
The out-of-school time (OST) field in the United States has a complex history. The push to offer programming reflects a legacy rooted in moral panics about racially minoritized youth. However, this field is populated by community spaces that act as multipurpose sites of culturally sustaining educational practices supporting positive youth development. We report findings from interviews with OST leaders, youth workers, policy influencers, and yout…
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships
This article tells the story of the Kentucky Student Voice Team (KSVT), a youth organization that is working toward educational justice in Kentucky by amplifying student voice in education research, advocacy, and policy. In particular, this study examines what makes a healthy intergenerational partnership. Challenges and opportunities within contemporary collaborative research are also discussed
Running in the Direction I Was Already Walking: Reflections from an Experienced Social Studies Teacher on Educating for Democracy in the United States
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (4 works) · Democracy (3 works)