Understanding Youth Collaboration: How Learners Experience the Design Process in a Collaborative Context (Fundamentals)

Michelle Jordan earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing her studies on learning, cognition, and motivation with an emphasis on classroom discourse. She joined the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University in 2010. Her interdisciplinary research draws on traditions in qualitative inquiry, sociolinguistics, complexity theories, and the learning sciences. Partnering with teachers and researchers across multiple contexts, Michelle’s research agenda explores the relationships among small-group interactions, the experiences they facilitate, and their potential to extend human learning in diverse contexts including K-12 engineering design teams.