Advancing Learning Sciences for a New Generation
Beyond the Baby Lab, I direct an interdisciplinary consortium, New Gen Learning, promoting research that takes an assets-based approach to studying and supporting the learning by children and students from underserved backgrounds. With Barbara Rogoff (psychology) and Cynthia Lewis (education), we co-founded New Gen Learning in 2019 to address pressing issues related to equitable learning across a wide age range and in various contexts.
New Gen Learning brings together faculty and students in Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Social Sciences at UCSC, to develop research that identifies (a) the cultural strengths of learning by children and students from historically underserved populations and (b) ways to foster those strengths in formal and informal settings for learning.
Funded by the Spencer Foundation and UCSC, New Gen Learning provides graduate student support to fuel new collaborative research at the intersection of equity, learning sciences and human development.