The Learning Sciences in Conversation: Theories, Methodologies, and Boundary Spaces

The Learning Sciences in Conversation explores the unique pluralities, complex networks, and distinct approaches of the learning scientists of today. Focused on four key scholarly areas – transdisciplinarity, design, cognition, and technology – this cutting-edge volume draws on empirical and theoretical foundations to illustrate the directions, perspectives, methods, and questions that continue to define this evolving field. Contributions by researchers are put in dialogue with one another, offering an exemplary analysis of a field that synthesizes, in situ, various scholarly traditions and orientations to create a critical and heterogenous understanding of learning.

Marie-Claire Shanahan is Professor in the Learning Sciences and Co-Director of the Mind, Matter & Media Lab and also served as the Research Chair in Science Education and Public Engagement in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Beaumie Kim is Professor in the Learning Sciences in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the Founding President of the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada, established in 2019.

Miwa Aoki Takeuchi is Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Takeuchi is on the Board of Directors at the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and is the current President of the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada.

Kim Koh is Professor and Chair of Educational Studies in Learning Sciences in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

A. Paulino Preciado-Babb is Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences in the Werklund School of Education and Director of the Math Minds Initiative at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Pratim Sengupta is Full Professor in the Learning Sciences in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he also served as Research Chair for STEM Education. He recently co-authored Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination (open access, MIT Press). He cordirects the Mind, Matter and Media Lab.