Research
Drawing from the scholarship and traditions of constructivism, constructionism, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural educational research, we conduct research exploring new ways to teach and learn STEM disciplines. Our lab is not concerned with merely optimizing what already exists, but in reimagining how children and youth can engage with STEM disciplines in transformative, personally-meaningful, and community-relevant ways. Thus we develop tools, create learning spaces, research human and social cognition, create pedagogical designs, inquiry into communities’ social life, and work at scaling up educational innovation around the world. Our lab is unique in which is has a strong focus on research-to-practice work, so most of our basic research projects have a strong implementation and broader impact component, trying to take the best research and designs to schools and students.