Faculty Information
Educational Psychology Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Professor
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Executive Associate Dean
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D.; Professor
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Program Area Head: Educational Psychology
Teaching Areas: Educational psychology and cognitive science.
Courses taught include: Theoretical Perspectives on Giftedness; Creativity, Talent, Learning and Cognitive Theory in Education; Evaluation Models and Methods; Creativity: Research, Theory, and Instruction; Creativity: Debunking Myths & Enhancing Innovation; Intelligence Theory; College Teaching; Advanced Creativity Seminar.
Research Interests: Creativity and intelligence, school reform, education policy and talent development.
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David Estell, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Teaching Areas: Life Span Development: Birth to Death(P514), Child Development (P515), Social Development(P622) and Brain Research Applied to Educational and Clinical Practice(P624)
Research Interests: The social development of children broadly, with an emphasis on how the social context affects ontongeny of aggressive behavior, peer relations, bullying, and relational aggression
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Anne Stright, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Program Area Head: Human Development
Teaching Areas: Life Span Development (P314), Child Development (P515), Family Processes and Child/Adolescent Development(P625), and Gender Development (P650).
Research Interests: Children's social development; Family influences on children's development; Children's self regulated behavior in classrooms; Child care.
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Emeritus Faculty:
Donald Cunningham, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Beth Greene, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Sam Guskin, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Gary Ingersoll, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Dan Mueller, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Human Development Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Professor
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Executive Associate Dean
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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David Estell, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Teaching Areas: Life Span Development: Birth to Death(P514), Child Development (P515), Social Development(P622) and Brain Research Applied to Educational and Clinical Practice(P624)
Research Interests: The social development of children broadly, with an emphasis on how the social context affects ontongeny of aggressive behavior, peer relations, bullying, and relational aggression.
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Anne Stright, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Program Area Head: Human Development
Teaching Areas: Life Span Development (P314), Child Development (P515), Family Processes and Child/Adolescent Development(P625), and Gender Development (P650).
Research Interests: Children's social development; Family influences on children's development; Children's self regulated behavior in classrooms; Child care.
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Mary Waldron ; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Adolescent Development (P516)
Research Interests: Adolescent substance use/disorder; sexual and reproductive timing; non-marital childbearing; parental divorce; behavioral genetic methodology
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Emeritus Faculty:
Susan J. Eklund, Ph.D. (George Peabody College for Teachers, 1970)
Professor Emeritus
Bryon Root Professor of Aging
Gary Ingersoll, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Joan Prentice, Ed.D. (Indiana University, 1964)
Professor Emeritus
Myrtle Scott, Ph.D. (George Peabody College for Teachers, 1969)
Professor Emeritus
Learning Sciences Faculty
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Joyce Alexander, Ph.D.; Professor
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Executive Associate Dean
Teaching Areas: Child Development (P348), Foundations of Child Development (P351), Child Development Seminar (P450), Children's Thinking (P600), Learning, Cognition and Instruction (P506, P251, P465, P525, P530, P540, P545)
Research Interests: Metacognition, Transfer, Motivation and Creativity, Children's Thinking, Children's Interests, Development of Expertise.
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Nathaniel Brown, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning Theory (P540), Assessment and Measurement (Y527), Qualitative Methodology and Discourse Analysis (P633)
Research Interests: My research focuses on conceptual understanding and explanation in science education. My methods combine the detailed study of situated cognitive activity, exemplified by interaction analysis, and the objective characterization of such interactions, exemplified by construct-referenced (or Rasch) measurement. My research also focuses on the application of construct-referenced measurement to embedded classroom assessment in the areas of middle and high school science and content-area literacy.
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Joshua Danish, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning Theory (P540), Application of Learning Theories to Specific Contexts (P544), Theory and Practice for Integrating Computational Technologies in Education.
Research Interests: The role of representations including drawings, graphs, maps, and computer simulations in learning and problem solving. The role of computers and computational thinking in supporting learning. Science education for young children (k-2nd grade). Activity theory and sociocultural theories of learning and development. Discourse analysis.
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Melissa Gresalfi; Assistant Professor
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My work considers cognition and social context by examining learning as a function of participation in activity settings. Drawing on the situative theories of learning, I have investigated the nature of interactions between elements of mathematics classrooms in order to understand how affordances can be generated for all students to learn mathematics. I conceptualize learning as a trajectory of a student’s participation in a community—a path with a past and present, shaping possibilities for future participation. Central to my work is the concept of taking up opportunities to learn. This captures aspects of my research that focus on students, teachers, classroom systems, and school systems more broadly. More recently, I have begun to apply this lens to investigate the nature of teacher learning and identity development as they engage in efforts to significantly change their practice of teaching mathematics
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Kenneth E. Hay, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Assistant Director, Center for Research on Learning and Technology
Teaching Areas: Learning Theory, Emergent Technologies for Learning, Virtual Reality in Education, Video Based Research Methodologies.
Research Interests: Emergent Technology, Cognition, Learning, and Instruction, Teacher construction of Video Cases for Professional Development, Design of VR Modeling Tools for Learning, and Modeling-Based Inquiry Pedagogies.
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Daniel T. Hickey, Ph.D.; Associate Professor
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Program Area Head: Learning Sciences
Teaching Areas: Cognition and instruction, motivation, assessment, design-based research.
Research Interests: Formative classroom assessment, sociocultural models of motivation, program evaluation.
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Richard Lesh, Ph.D.; Rudy Professor
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Teaching Areas: Learning and cognitive processes, learning in context, assessment design in mathematics and science education, computer-based curriculum development.
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in mathematics problem solving, situated learning, instructional software development.
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Kylie Peppler; Assistant Professor
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I really like the idea of striving to be a muse rather than a mentor. Based on the metaphor of a muse — women in mythology who acted to inspire and spark the imagination of the artist — I enjoy working with others because of the diverse values, resources and ideas that everyone brings to the table. I enjoy inspiring (and thus I am inspired by) people of all ages to more fully develop their ideas – ideas that might need shaping, but are interesting and valuable in their own right. I also like to work with students to try to illuminate what's not transparent in the world of research and Education. This is based on lessons I've learned and what I would have like to have known early in my schooling experience.
Here are the top reasons I would choose the Learning Sciences program at IU: you'll enjoy working with faculty who collaborate and who genuinely mentor. Our research is very high-profile and diverse. You’ll have many opportunities to write, publish and work on a variety of cutting-edge projects. Your peer cohort will be exceptional. Many will become leaders in research and development. The multitude of opportunities available to you, ranging from the arts, to videogames, to content learning, is really astonishing.
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Emeritus Faculty:
Laurence D. Brown, Ed.D. (University of Illinois, 1962)
Professor Emeritus
Donald Cunningham, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Thomas Duffey, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Meryl Englander, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1957)
Professor Emeritus
William W. Lynch, Ph.D. (Yale University, 1950)
Professor Emeritus
Thomas Schwen, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Faculty:
J. David Perry, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1992)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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