Sheila Macrine

Sheila Landers Macrine, PhD, is a Professor and a Cognitive Psychologist in the Department of STEM Education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where she coordinates the Special Education Program. Her research interests focus on embodied cognition, cognitive development, alternative assessment, the learning sciences and the politics of education. She recently published Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning with MIT Press, as well as numerous papers on Embodied Cognition in the International Journal of School and Educational Psychology, and in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias-Education at Oxford University Press. She is a critical feminist who has published numerous articles and books, as well as, the recipient of many grants. She is also a licensed and certified School Psychologist and a Reading Specialist. She recently published a book on transnational feminist politics, as well as a book on Embodied Cognition with MIT Press.