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Faculty Profile

EDUCATION

2000 - Ph.D., Northwestern University, Learning Sciences
1985 - BA, University of Michigan, Comparative History

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

How do students learn to reason with visual information?  My research applies cultural-historical activity theory to the study of teaching and learning with data visualizations, with a focus on historical and social inquiry.

My research methods are design-based, using the process of designing and adapting learning environments -- curriculum, instruction, software, data inscriptions -- as a window through which to analyze how people learn, individually and socially.

This research informs, and is informed by, professional development and teacher education in the social sciences, and studies of the social contexts of schooling in big cities like Chicago.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  (more)

under review - Radinsky, J. (under review). Studentsﾒ roles in group-work with visual data: A site of science learning. Submitted to Cognition and Instruction May, 2007.

under review - Radinsky, J., Oliva, S., & Alamar, K. (under review). Camila, the earth, and the sun: Constructing an idea as shared intellectual property. Submitted to the Journal of Research in Science Teaching October, 2007.

in press - Singer, M., Radinsky, J. and S. Goldman (in press). The role of gesture in meaning construction. Discourse Processes Special Issue, Eds. Ludo Verhoeven and Arthur Graesser.

in press - Radinsky, J. (in press). GIS for History: a GIS learning environment to teach historical reasoning. To appear in Alibrandi & Milson (Eds.) Digital Geography: Geo-spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

2005 - Radinsky, J., Alamar, K., Leimberer, J., Rodriguez, C., and J. Trigueros (2005). Science Investigations with GIS: Helping Students Develop the Need to Know More. Spectrum: Journal of the Illinois Science Teachers' Association, 31 (2): 34-42.

2005 - Radinsky, J., Smolin, L. I., and K. Lawless (2005). Collaborative Curriculum Design as a Vehicle for Professional Development. In Vrasidas, C. and G. Glass (Eds), Preparing Teachers to Teach with Technology: 369-380. Current Perspectives on Applied Information Technologies. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

GIS for History, Project Director and PI

Teaching & Learning with GIS, Project Director and PI

Teachers Infusing Technology in Urban Schools, curriculum facilitator and co-PI