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Leema G. Berland
Leema K. Berland
(Ph.D. 2008, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University) is chair and professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Berland is broadly interested in facilitating and studying students as they engage in sensemaking practices (with a focus on K-12 students sensemaking about scientific phenomena, teacher candidates sensemaking about pedagogical phenomena, and educators making sense of their shared antiracist vision and goals). She uses sociocultural lenses to explore how learners interpret sensemaking opportunities, how those interpretations influence their participation in the sensemaking, and why they interpret it in the ways that they do. In her most recent work, Dr. Berland is interested in how participants in a professional learning community—including researchers and k-12 educators—navigate their different positions, identities, and ideologies in order to build a shared (or not) goal, as they move towards developing a more antiracist school community.
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