PROFILE

Doris Ash

Associate Professor

University of California Santa Cruz

About informal science

Projects

Pathways: Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and Engineering Design (ASCEND) CAREER: Shared Scientific Sense-Making and Bilingual Student Advancement in Science: Linking Family and School Learning Through Informal Learning Research Successful Scaffolding Strategies in Urban Museums: Research and Practice on Mediated Scientific Conversations with Families and Museum Educators

Research

Learning Environments at the Margin: Case Studies of Disenfranchised Youth Doing Science in an Aquarium and an After-School Program Changing practices, changing identities as museum educators: From didactic telling to scaffolding in the zpd Distributed expertise in the classroom

Talks, Tools, and Tensions: Observing Biological Talk Over Tiime Reflective scientific sense-making dialogue in two languages: The science in the dialogue and the dialogue in the science Dialogic Inquiry in Life Science Conversations of Family Groups in a Museum How Families Use Questions at Dioramas: Ideas for Exhibit Design

Evaluation

I KA WA MA MUA KA WA MA HOPE - The Future is in the Past, Fieldtrip Summative Evaluation at the Bishop Museum