Expansive and Consequential Learning for English Learners
Kris D. Gutiérrez is professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the Inaugural Provost’s Chair and Distinguished Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and professor of social research methodology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gutiérrez is a national leader in education, with an emphasis in literacy, learning sciences, and interpretive and design-based approaches to inquiry. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and was past president of the American Educational Research Association. Gutiérrez was appointed by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Board for the Institute of Education Sciences where she served as vice-chair. She serves on the board of directors for the Learning Policy Institute, the National Research Council Committee on Strengthening Science Education through a Teacher Learning Continuum, and on the Guiding the Implementation of PreK-12 Engineering Education Committee, National Academy of Engineering. Her empirical studies are funded by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.
Her research examines learning in designed learning environments, with attention to students from non-dominant communities and English learners. Her work on Third Spaces examines the affordances of hybrid and syncretic approaches to literacy, new media literacies, and STEM learning and the re- mediation of functional systems of learning. Gutiérrez's research has been published widely in premier academic journals. She is a coauthor of Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory.
Her research examines learning in designed learning environments, with attention to students from non-dominant communities and English learners. Her work on Third Spaces examines the affordances of hybrid and syncretic approaches to literacy, new media literacies, and STEM learning and the re- mediation of functional systems of learning. Gutiérrez's research has been published widely in premier academic journals. She is a coauthor of Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory.