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Andrew Izsak
Professor and Department Chair of Education
The psychology of mathematical thinking, teachers' and students' understanding and use of inscriptions, multiplicative reasoning, applications of psychometric modeling for assessment and research in mathematics education.
Erin Seaton
Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair
Special Education, human development, teaching and learning, adolescence, gender, equity in education, qualitative research methods, child and adolescent literature and literacy, writing
Susan Barahal
Senior Lecturer
Linda Beardsley
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Linda's research interests include developing effective partnerships between higher education and public schools, training teachers to teach in urban settings, and integrating technology into classroom teaching. Her articles and book reviews have been published in Childhood Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, The Newslink, Helping Young Children Learn, and Massachusetts Department of Education publications.
Bárbara M. Brizuela
Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Steven Cohen
Senior Lecturer
Sugat Dabholkar
Assistant Research Professor
My work focuses on designing and co-designing computational learning environments that facilitate student participation in knowledge-building practices to construct scientific knowledge. I am interested in investigating students' epistemic engagement and participation in connection with science - how students know what they know in science classrooms and how they think about knowledge construction as a central part of the endeavor of science. Another important aspect of my design-based research work is making and using agent-based computational models of complex systems to support students in thinking and learning about emergent phenomena such as natural selection. I have designed and co-designed several curricular units that have been used in high schools in the US as well as in India. Before starting research in Learning Sciences, I did some research in computational biology in India and have worked for various multinational organizations in different roles.
Meredith Edelstein
Lecturer
Julia Gouvea
Associate Professor
Brian Gravel
Associate Professor
Brian's research focuses on students' representational practices in science and engineering studied using design-based research on learning technologies and socio-technical learning environments. This work builds from the development of SAM Animation, which is stop-motion animation software developed at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. Brian co-developed SiMSAM: a multi-representational toolkit to support creative computational modeling activities for middle grades learners. Curious about design, play, and making, his more recent work involves partnerships with researchers and educators to start Nedlam's Workshop in 2014, a makerspace in an urban high school that emphasizes multidisciplinary inquiry. Through this work, he developed both empirical and theoretical contributions focused on heterogeneous design, STEM literacies in making, and analyses of how communities of makers organize to support each other's practices. Collectively, his research complicates and expands the field's understandings of how inquiry unfolds in making contexts, and how makerspaces can be a site for equitable and dignified participation in STEM. Brian's newer work involves teachers engaging in playful computational making to study how they (re)negotiate relationships to inquiry, disciplines, computational tools, and heterogeneous ways of knowing. This includes the exploration of geographies of care and responsibility that support STEM learning environments that center wellbeing. His scholarship examines the many facets of making and making spaces in schools, both in the United States and abroad. Brian's collaborative research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the LEGO Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.
Scott Greenspan
Lecturer
Scott's research focuses on school-based mental health services and multi-tiered systems of support, physical activity promotion, and affirming psychosocial supports for LGBTQIA+ youth. He publishes his work in peer-reviewed journals and presents at national conferences.
David Hammer
Professor
Milo Koretsky
McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Education
engineering education research, learning and engagement in the university classroom, development of disciplinary practices, instructional design and technology development, instructional practices, organizational change, social practice theory
Hong Ly
Lecturer
Patricia Palmer
Lecturer
Shameka Powell
Associate Professor
Educational Equity, Teacher Education, Critical Race Theory, Social Context of Schooling, Urban Schooling, Multicultural Education
Ryan Redmond
Senior Lecturer
Noelle Roop
Lecturer
Affiliate Faculty
Freeden Blume Oeur
Associate Professor
My research engages feminist and humanist insights to enrich a Sociology in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, one committed to understanding the persistence of anti-Black racism today.
Ira Caspari-Gnann
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and STEM Education. In order to understand how and why successful teaching and learning of chemistry at the university level works, the Caspari research group focuses on analyzing students', teaching assistants' (TA), learning assistants' (LA), and instructors' reasoning, interactions, and culture. The group collects video data of classroom practices and conducts qualitative research interviews with instructors, TAs, LAs, and students to better understand how certain interactions and ways of reasoning lead to student sense making and learning. While zooming in and investigating how students connect aspects of chemistry, the group also zooms out and investigates classroom culture and how individual interactions and personal experiences integrate into larger systems of teaching and learning. The group uses this fundamental research as a theoretical basis for implementing teaching innovations and designing training opportunities in order to promote supportive learning environments for students that value and encourage their unique ways of being, knowing and doing.
Trevion Henderson
Assistant Professor
Engineering education; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; team-based engineering pedagogies; engineering design thinking
Sarah Herchel
Associate Dean of GSAS
Adult learning; online education; mentoring; experiential learning
Justin Jiménez
Academic Coach
Greses Pérez
McDonnell Family Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
Cynthia Robinson
Senior Lecturer and Director of Museum Studies
Natasha Warikoo
Lenore Stern Professor in Social Sciences
Education, race, ethnicity, immigration, Asian Americans, culture, inequality, qualitative methods
Kristen Wendell
Associate Professor and Stacey and Robert Morse Fellow
learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction
Part-time Faculty
Anna Banerjea
Lecturer
Denise Carver
Lecturer
Deborah Donahue-Keegan
Lecturer
Victoria Downes
Lecturer
Christopher Hall
Lecturer
Richard Kim
Lecturer
Joy Kubarek
Instructor
Dalia Linssen
Lecturer
Cathryn Magielnicki
Lecturer
John Perella
Lecturer
Jeff Shea
Instructor
Dean Simpson
Lecturer
Robert Trant
Lecturer
Rachel Vorkink
Lecturer
Michele Welch
Lecturer
Emeriti Faculty
Steven Luz-Alterman
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Laura Rogers
Senior Lecturer Emerita
Analucia Schliemann
Professor Emerita
Martha Tucker
Senior Lecturer Emerita
Kathleen Weiler
Professor Emerita