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Miramontes Baca Education Building, Room 300G
University of ColoradoBoulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Ben Kirshner is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of ColoradoBoulder.His experiences working with young people at a community center in San Francisco’s Mission District motivated his research agenda about learning environments that support young people’s critical reflection and collective agency.In his current work with theCritical Civic Inquiryresearch group he develops research-practice partnerships that increase public schools’ capacity to support student voice and youth participatory action research through teacher professional learning, policy alignment, and student activism. With theResearch Hub for Youth Organizinghe co-designs educational tools and research studies with youth organizing groups and networks that build capacity for young people to claim power in the public sphere. Ben’sbook,Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality,received the social policy award for best authored book from the Society of Research on Adolescence. Recent courses he has taught include principles and practices of community-based research, leadership development, and youth activism and social movements.
Education
PhD Psychological Studies in Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2004
MTS Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, 1999
BA History and Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1993