Natalie Rae
Natalie Rae
Assistant Professor - Learning and Performance Systems
Email:[email protected]
Phone: 814-863-4364
310C Keller Building
University Park, PA 16802
Department(s)
- Learning and Performance Systems
Program(s)
- Learning, Design, and Technology
Biography
My research explores the political dimensions of STEM teaching and learning. Currently, I study how young people and adults draw on artistic repertoires while engaging in formal and informal STEM to reimagine what counts as disciplinary learning. Drawing on my background in engineering and previous experience as a high school engineering teacher, I am particularly interested in the sociohistorical dimensions of integrating engineering into K-12 learning. I take an interdisciplinary approach to qualitative methods, drawing on critical social theory, sociology of science, learning sciences, and education scholarship to understand processes of STEM teaching and learning.
Most Recent Papers
*Prior publications have been authored with my former last name, De Lucca
- De Lucca, N., Watkins, J., Swanson, R., Portsmore, M. (2023). Dominant discourses and engineering educational concepts within elementary engineering teachers’ pedagogical reasoning. Journal of Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20563
- Watkins, J., De Lucca, N., Pao, S. (2023). Fostering expansive and connective sensemaking with preservice secondary science teachers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. http://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21922