Angela Calabrese Barton

Angela Calabrese Barton, PhD, is a professor and chair of Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on issues of equity and justice in STEM education in both school and community settings. A former chemistry teacher, she has also designed and taught community-based STEM for over two decades in homeless shelters and community organizations in different cities in the US. She takes an historicized and future-oriented ecological and participatory approach to give witness to and learn with community partners (teachers, youth, parents, community educators, and researchers ). She is particularly interested in approaches to teaching that center what matters to people in the here-and-now and towards imagined social futures; and that disrupt/transform injustices that operate in classrooms in often mundane ways. Calabrese Barton has served as a WT Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Education Research Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is co-Editor of the American Educational Research Journal, and was the former co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.