Ananda M. Marin

As a learning scientist my goal is to bring research on the socio-ecological and cultural nature of learning and development alongside efforts to co-design more just teaching/learning environments. Broadly speaking, my research explores the diversity of ways that multigenerational groups of people organize attention and observation to participate in joint activity, collaborate, and improvise in everyday and professional contexts. Drawing on video-based methodologies, I examine how people in science-related and arts-based teaching/learning contexts make meaning in the moment-to-moment unfolding of interaction while accounting for the role of relationality, embodied movement, and place. My studies in these areas inform my collaborations with educators and practitioners. I have widespread experience partnering with Indigenous communities, community-based organizations, and small collectives to design educational environments that cultivate community well-being. A primary goal of my work is to broaden research methodologies and theories of teaching/learning in ways that are consequential to the communities she partners with and the field of education.