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Education Complex, Office 221
Dana E. Wright
Professor of Education
Unit Chair of Education
Abbie Valley Professorship in Education
Education
BA, Vassar College
MA, Harvard Graduate School of Education
EdD, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Professional Interests
Youth participatory action research (PAR), youth studies, learning and schooling in urban contexts, critical arts pedagogies, curriculum theory, community-engaged research, critical epistemologies, educational leadership, organizational transformation and policy.
Bio
Dr. Dana Wright conducts multi-method, participatory, community-engaged, and qualitative research on pedagogy, curriculum, participatory action research, and creative arts approaches to learning. Central to her work is the recognition of young people as active agents in learning, addressing social inequities, and knowledge production.
A former public middle school teacher in Brooklyn and the Bronx, Professor Wright has over two decades of experience in curriculum development, PAR, youth organizing, and organizational development. She partners with teachers, youth, parents, and community organizers to promote educational justice.
Professor Wright is the author of Active Learning: Social Justice Education and Participatory Action Research and co-editor of Engaging Youth in Critical Arts Pedagogies and Creative Research for Social Justice. Her scholarship is published in journals such as the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and Journal of Research on Adolescence, with research support from the National Institutes of Health and William T. Grant Foundation.
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