Angela Booker

About

Angela Booker is an Associate Professor and Provost of Eighth College at UC San Diego. Her research focuses on how youth, families, and schools utilize media and technology for participation, learning, and community development. She is particularly concerned with addressing barriers that reduce access to public participation among underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. Booker employs ethnographic, qualitative, and design-based research methods to examine both typical and emerging practices where youth and adults collaborate, sometimes in conflict. Her work is grounded in collaborations with youth, community partners, educators, and scholars. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, earned in 2007. Her scholarly contributions include studies on youth civic participation, community-based research ethics, participatory design research, and the intersection of digital media with identity and agency among youth. Booker has received numerous awards, including the Jan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and fellowships recognizing her contributions to collaborative research and equitable education.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Mathematics education
• Political Science
• Multimedia
• Medical education
• Acoustics
• Engineering
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships

  Educational Policy · 2022 · 22 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  This article considers contested conceptions of community and trajectories toward full participation in research-practice partnerships (RPPs) as key analytical aspects for studying a productive politics of participation. RPPs, as methodology and infrastructure for community participation, frequently surface the character of participation in intersecting communities of practice—making them visible and actionable. I examine two youth-serving RPPs. This analysis considers youth digital media projec…

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• Integrating Intersectionality into the Study of Learning

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 20 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  In this conceptual review, we explore when diversity mediates a recognition of “learning to be a culturally heterogeneous process of engagement in repertoires of practices” (Nasir et al., 2006, p. 699), and when it is wielded as a weapon of normativity. We begin with an inquiry into ways that diversity has been conceptualized as representation and how this conception yields particular forms of reproduction when responding to difference in learning contexts. We then engage a critical interrogatio…

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• Towards an Ethic of Decolonial Trans-Ontologies in Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Development

  2016-12-01 · 20 citations

  articleSenior author
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• Deep Stories

  2017-03-13 · 8 citations

  bookOpen accessSenior author

  Have you ever wondered what makes storytelling and digital media a powerful combination? This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The editors of this volume contend that digital storytelling and digital media can create spaces of empowerment and transformation by facilitating multiple kinds of border crossings and convergences involving groups of peoples, places, knowledge, methodologies, and teaching pedagogies. The book…

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• Transcultural Prefigurations: Reflections on Dynamic Relations between Local Movements and Social Movements

  Anthropology & Education Quarterly · 2017-08-07 · 8 citations

  articleSenior author
  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• CAP: Collaborative Research: Building Capacity for Political and Cultural Perspectives to Strengthen the Learning Sciences

  NSF · $57k · 2016–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Shelley Goldman

  Stanford University

  12 shared

• Indigo Esmonde

  7 shared

• Lee Martin

  6 shared

• Kristen Pilner Blair

  Stanford University

  5 shared

• Emma Mercier

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  5 shared

• Roy D. Pea

  5 shared

• Na’ilah Suad Nasir

  Spencer Foundation

  4 shared

• Michael Heimlich

  Macquarie University

  4 shared

Education

• PhD, Graduate School of Education

  Stanford University

  2007

Awards & honors

• Jan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Research and S…
• Fellow, UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitabl…
• Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Presidential Fel…
• Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Diss…
• IBM Distinguished Student Research Award (2003)

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