Reed Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reed Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reed |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7870-5858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Implementation as distributed sensemaking and adaptation
Background Much of learning sciences research focuses on the design of learning innovations. However, curricula developed by learning scientists are seldomly widely adopted. One reason is that scaling programs beyond local, carefully tended contexts is difficult and is often unsuccessful. This problem suggests a need for research aimed at understanding how learning innovations scale beyond initial implementations.Methods We take a distributed sen…
Dilemmas experienced by teachers in adapting to the role of facilitator in the STEAM classroom
An Existential Foundation for an Ethics of Care in Heidegger’s Being and Time
Sensing defects
This paper explores how professional engineers recognize and make sense of product defects in their everyday work. Such activities form a crucial, if often overlooked, part of professional engineering practice. By detecting, recognizing and repairing defects, engineers contribute to the creation of value and the optimization of production processes. Focusing on early-career engineers in an advanced steel mill in the United States, we demonstrate …
“Failure is just another try”
In an era of high-stakes testing and performance demands that regulate future educational opportunities and affect how schools are managed and funded, failure can easily become stigmatized in the practices of schooling. In turn, it can lead students to avoid activities in which they can be evaluated as failing. As researchers, if we wish to help students recognize the value of failure in the process of learning and to capitalize on failures as si…
In-Fuse-ing STEAM learning with spatial reasoning
This study examines the role of spatial reasoning in learning among 5th and 6th grade students participating in a set of in-school, technology-enhanced, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) making activities. We focus our analysis on a particular type of reasoning: spatial reasoning. Prior research has shown that spatial reasoning is relevant for problem-solving, participation, and achievement in STEAM disciplines. However, th…
Interest development and learning in choice-based, in-school, making activities
Disrupting Representational Infrastructure in Conversations Across Disciplines
In this article, we analyze conversations in consulting meetings where people work across disciplines to design things. We focus on interactional processes through which people disrupt and attempt to change representational technologies for scientific and technical classification. Our case material is drawn from ethnographic and cognitive studies of work in field entomology and architectural design. In both cases, we find common structures of int…
Making Space
Research accounts of mathematical and scientific competence play a central role in ongoing efforts to reorganize education. At the same time, new technologies change the character of work in settings where these competencies are learned and used. Two contemporary research programs-(1) cognitive science studies of expert versus novice skill and (2) interactional studies of scientific and technical practice-produce sharply diverging accounts of wha…
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Making Space
Research accounts of mathematical and scientific competence play a central role in ongoing efforts to reorganize education. At the same time, new technologies change the character of work in settings where these competencies are learned and used. Two contemporary research programs-(1) cognitive science studies of expert versus novice skill and (2) interactional studies of scientific and technical practice-produce sharply diverging accounts of wha…
Disrupting Representational Infrastructure in Conversations Across Disciplines
In this article, we analyze conversations in consulting meetings where people work across disciplines to design things. We focus on interactional processes through which people disrupt and attempt to change representational technologies for scientific and technical classification. Our case material is drawn from ethnographic and cognitive studies of work in field entomology and architectural design. In both cases, we find common structures of int…
Interest development and learning in choice-based, in-school, making activities
“Failure is just another try”
In an era of high-stakes testing and performance demands that regulate future educational opportunities and affect how schools are managed and funded, failure can easily become stigmatized in the practices of schooling. In turn, it can lead students to avoid activities in which they can be evaluated as failing. As researchers, if we wish to help students recognize the value of failure in the process of learning and to capitalize on failures as si…
In-Fuse-ing STEAM learning with spatial reasoning
This study examines the role of spatial reasoning in learning among 5th and 6th grade students participating in a set of in-school, technology-enhanced, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) making activities. We focus our analysis on a particular type of reasoning: spatial reasoning. Prior research has shown that spatial reasoning is relevant for problem-solving, participation, and achievement in STEAM disciplines. However, th…
Sensing defects
This paper explores how professional engineers recognize and make sense of product defects in their everyday work. Such activities form a crucial, if often overlooked, part of professional engineering practice. By detecting, recognizing and repairing defects, engineers contribute to the creation of value and the optimization of production processes. Focusing on early-career engineers in an advanced steel mill in the United States, we demonstrate …
An Existential Foundation for an Ethics of Care in Heidegger’s Being and Time
Dilemmas experienced by teachers in adapting to the role of facilitator in the STEAM classroom
Implementation as distributed sensemaking and adaptation
Background Much of learning sciences research focuses on the design of learning innovations. However, curricula developed by learning scientists are seldomly widely adopted. One reason is that scaling programs beyond local, carefully tended contexts is difficult and is often unsuccessful. This problem suggests a need for research aimed at understanding how learning innovations scale beyond initial implementations.Methods We take a distributed sen…
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)