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Biography
Professor Goldman is an educational anthropologist interested in the idea that learning takes place when students are actively engaged with each other, their teachers, and others in conversations, activities, content, and technologies. She is very interested in the power of real-world contexts to drive learning, and researches how people learn in and out of school. Goldman’s work focuses on creating opportunities for rich STEM learning, and for understanding how design thinking and technologies can create access and be transformational. Current work includes broadening participation in STEM via family activities, design-based engagements, and through empathy work with scientists doing outreach.
Other titles
Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE
SHIPS (PhD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): Anthropology of Education
(MS) LDT
(MA) CTE
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Curriculum and Instruction | Elementary Education | Equity in Education | Gender Issues | Math Education | Parents and Family Issues | Research Methods | Science Education | Technology and Education
Recent publications
Goldman, S., Luce, M. R., & Vea, T. (2020). Opportunities and tensions in family science: challenging dominant paradigms of science education. CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION.
Luce, M. R., Goldman, S., & Vea, T. (2017). Designing for Family Science Explorations Anytime, Anywhere. SCIENCE EDUCATION, 101(2), 251–77.
Sorcar, P., Strauber, B., Loyalka, P., Kumar, N., & Goldman, S. (2017). Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology to Teach Around Taboos. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
