Beth Warren

Dr. Beth Warren is the Sylvia Earl Professor and director of the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. She is also a professor in the department of Language &  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 marginalized 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 her 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.

Before coming to BU Wheelock, Dr. Warren was a senior scientist at BBN Laboratories and then co-founder and co-director of the Chèche Konnen Center (“search for knowledge” in Haitian Creole) at TERC. She collaboratively led numerous National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and US Department of Education-funded projects that pursued research and design work to reimagine disciplinary learning and teaching by attending closely to their cultural, historical, political, and ethical dimensions.