Beth Warren

Boston University

Sylvia Earl Professor

Beth Warren is Sylvia Earl Professor and Director of the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Dr. Warren's research imagines possibilities for learning and teaching beyond the settled forms of schooling that have failed too many of our children and youth, especially those from historically oppressed communities. Her research builds from the heterogeneity of human cultural practices to design educational ecologies that cultivate justice, dignity, and mutual flourishing. Working in partnership with teachers, youth, scientists, and artists, Dr. Warren and colleagues investigate questions at the intersection of culture, language, race, learning and teaching across STEM, humanities, and arts disciplines. They also explore designs for teacher learning that work at disrupting and transforming power in moment-to-moment classroom interaction in ways that sustain multiple values, purposes, and arcs of human learning. Prior to BU, Dr. Warren was Senior Scientist in the Education Department at BBN Laboratories and then co-Founder and co-Director of the Chèche Konnen Center ("search for knowledge" in Haitian Creole) at TERC, a not-for-profit educational research and development organization. She has collaboratively led numerous private foundation and government-funded projects that pursue design-based research to reimagine disciplinary learning and teaching by attending closely to their cultural, historical, political, and ethical dimensions.