Bio

Professor Goldman is an educational anthropologist interested in the idea that learning takes place when students are actively engaged with each other, their teachers, and others in conversations, activities, content, and technologies. She is very interested in the power of real-world contexts to drive learning, and researches how people learn in and out of school. Goldman’s work focuses on creating opportunities for rich STEM learning, and for understanding how design thinking and technologies can create access and be transformational. Current work includes broadening participation in STEM via family activities, design-based engagements, and through empathy work with scientists doing outreach.

Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Professor (Teaching) of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), Stanford University (2006 - Present)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Elementary and Middle School Teacher, Teacher (1973 - 1977)
  • Director, Public Schools Project, College for Human Services (1983 - 1985)
  • Research Scientist, Center for Children and Technology, Bank Street College of Education (1985 - 1989)
  • Director of School and Community Programs and Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Learning (1989 - 2000)

Professional Education

  • BS, State University of New York at Oneonta, Elementary Education and Educational Psychology (1973)
  • MS, Florida International University, Urban School Administration and Supervision (1978)
  • MEd, Columbia University, Family and Community Education (1979)
  • EdD, Columbia University, Family and Community Education (1982)

Community and International Work

  • SKY Labo, Japan and US

    Topic

    Japanese girls and STEAM Learning

    Partnering Organization(s)

    SKY Labo

    Location

    International

    Ongoing Project

    Yes

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    Yes

  • D.loft STEM Learning

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • English Learners and Design Thinking

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • REDlab

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • STEM Ambassador Program

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

  • Playful Family Science

    Ongoing Project

    No

    Opportunities for Student Involvement

    No

Contact

  • Academic
    sgoldman@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Professor Emeritus (650) 725-7412 (fax)
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council (650) 725-7412 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 3096

Links

Research Interests

  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Elementary Education
  • Equity in education
  • Gender Issues
  • Math Education
  • Parents and family issues
  • Research Methods
  • Science Education
  • Technology and Education

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Professor Goldman is an educational anthropologist interested in the idea that learning takes place when students are actively engaged with each other, their teachers, and others in conversations, activities, content, and technologies. She is very interested in the power of real-world contexts to drive learning, and researches how people learn in and out of school. Goldman’s work focuses on creating opportunities for rich STEM learning, and for understanding how design thinking and technologies can create access and be transformational. Current work includes bringing broadening participation in STEM via family activities, design-based engagements, and through empathy work with scientists doing outreach.

2020-21 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
    Keith Bowen
  • Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
    Soren Rosier
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Rose Pozos, Brandon Reynante, Soren Rosier

All Publications

  • Designing for Family Science Explorations Anytime, Anywhere SCIENCE EDUCATION Luce, M. R., Goldman, S., Vea, T. 2017; 101 (2): 251-277

    View details for DOI 10.1002/sce.21259

    View details for Web of Science ID 000394903000004

  • Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology to Teach Around Taboos Sorcar, P., Strauber, B., Loyalka, P., Kumar, N., Goldman, S., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 2792–2804

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3025453.3025958

    View details for Web of Science ID 000426970502067

  • CAPTURING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDINGS OF DESIGN THINKING TAKING DESIGN THINKING TO SCHOOL: HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF DESIGN CAN TRANSFORM TEACHERS, LEARNERS, AND CLASSROOMS Goldman, S., Zielezinski, M. B., Vea, T., Bachas-Daunert, S., Kabayadondo, Z., Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z. 2017: 76–93

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446210600007

  • TAKING DESIGN THINKING TO SCHOOL How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms TAKING DESIGN THINKING TO SCHOOL: HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF DESIGN CAN TRANSFORM TEACHERS, LEARNERS, AND CLASSROOMS Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z., Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z. 2017: 3–19

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446210600002

  • A PRAXIS MODEL FOR DESIGN THINKING Catalyzing Life Readiness TAKING DESIGN THINKING TO SCHOOL: HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF DESIGN CAN TRANSFORM TEACHERS, LEARNERS, AND CLASSROOMS Estrada, C., Goldman, S., Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z. 2017: 37–49

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446210600004

  • Participatory Design Research as a Practice for Systemic Repair: Doing Hand-in-Hand Math Research with Families COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION Booker, A., Goldman, S. 2016; 34 (3): 222-235

    View details for DOI 10.1080/07370008.2016.1179535

    View details for Web of Science ID 000377814100004

  • Using a picture-embedded method to support acquisition of sight words LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION Strauber, C., Sorcar, P., Howlett, C., Goldman, S. 2020; 65

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.101248

    View details for Web of Science ID 000502894100008

  • Beyond the Deficit Model: The Ambassador Approach to Public Engagement BIOSCIENCE Nadkarni, N. M., Weber, C. Q., Goldman, S. V., Schatz, D. L., Allen, S., Menlove, R. 2019; 69 (4): 305–13

    View details for DOI 10.1093/biosci/biz018

    View details for Web of Science ID 000464938600009

  • Staying the course with video analysis Video research in the learning sciences Goldman, S., McDermott, R. 2017
  • 3 The Production of Learning Stories Through Comic Making Deep Stories Goldman, S., Zielezinski, M. B. JSTOR. 2017: 36–59
  • Design thinking In Peppler, K. (Ed), The SAGE encyclopedia of out-of-school learning Goldman, S. Los Angeles: Sage Publishing. 2017
  • Design thinking Deep stories: Practicing, teaching, and learning anthropology with digital storytelling Goldman, S., Zielezinski, M. DeGruyter Open. 2017
  • Taking design thinking to school: How the technology of design can transform teachers, learners, and classrooms Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z. Routledge. 2017
  • Exploring the promise and limits of a reciprocal research and design process: the case of family math applications Design as scholarship: Case studies from the learning sciences. Goldman, S., Jimenez, O. Routledge. 2016
  • Teaching with Design Thinking: Developing New Vision and Approaches to Twenty-First Century Learning Connecting Science and Engineering Education Practices in Meaningful Ways Goldman, S., Zielezinski, M. B. Springer. 2016; this is book edition: 237–262
  • Student teams in search of design thinking Design thinking research: building innovation eco-systems Goldman, S., Kabayadondo, Z., Royalty, A., Carroll, M. P., Roth, B. Springer International Publishing. 2014
  • Math I am: What we learn from stories that people tell about math in their lives LOST opportunities: Learning in out of school time Esmonde, I., Blair, K. P., Goldman, S., Martin, L., Jimenez, O., Pea, R. Springer Netherlands. 2013
  • Assessing d. learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker Design Thinking Research: Measuring Performance in Context Goldman, S., Carroll, M. P., Kabayadondo, Z., Cavagnaro, L. B., Royalty, A. W., Roth, B., Kim, J. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2012
  • Assessing d.learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker Directions in design thinking research Goldman, S., Carroll, M., Kabayadondo, Z., Britos Cavanaro, L., Royalty, A., Roth, B., Kwek, S., Kim, J. Springer. 2012
  • Destination, Imagination and the Fires Within: Design Thinking in a Middle School Classroom INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION Carroll, M., Goldman, S., Britos, L., Koh, J., Royalty, A., Hornstein, M. 2010; 29 (1): 37-53

    View details for Web of Science ID 000275638900005

  • Family inheritance: Parallel practices of financial responsibility in families Educating comprehensively: varieties of educational experiences, Vol. 3 of the Perspectives on comprehensive education series Martin, L., Goldman, S. The Edwin Mellon Press. 2010
  • Math engaged problem solving in families Learning in the disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2010) Goldman, S., Pea, R., Blair, K. P., Jimenez, O., Booker, A., Martin, L., Esmonde, I. edited by Gomez, K., Lyons, L., Radinsky, J. International Society of the Learning Sciences: Chicago IL.. 2010: 380–388
  • Making Math a Definition of the Situation: Families as Sites for Mathematical Practices ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY Goldman, S., Booker, A. 2009; 40 (4): 369-387

    View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01057.x

    View details for Web of Science ID 000272770100004

  • Destination, Imagination & The Fires Within: Design Thinking in a Middle School Classroom ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2009 Goldman, S., Carroll, M., Royalty, A. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 371–372

    View details for Web of Science ID 000281245100061

  • Educating New Learning Technology Designers Di Giano, C., Goldman, S., Chorost, M. Routledge. 2009
  • The Tanda: A Practice at the Intersection of Mathematics, Culture, and Financial Goals MIND CULTURE AND ACTIVITY Martin, L., Goldman, S., Jimenez, O. 2009; 16 (4): 338-352

    View details for DOI 10.1080/10749030902756602

    View details for Web of Science ID 000207875500004

  • Mixing the digital, social and cultural: Learning, identity and agency in youth participation Digital youth: Learning and identity Goldman, S., Booker, A., McDermott, M. MIT Press. 2007
  • A new angle on families: connecting the mathematics in daily life with school mathematics Learning in places: The informal education reader Goldman, S. Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2006
  • The cultural work of learning disabilities Educational Researcher McDermott, R., Goldman, S., Varenne, H. 2006; 35 (6): 12-17
  • Functioning in the wireless classroom 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE) Goldman, S. V., Pea, R., Maldonado, H., Martin, L., White, T. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2004: 75–82

    View details for Web of Science ID 000189494900010

  • Emerging social engineering in the wireless classroom 6th International Conference of the Learning Sciences Goldman, S., Pea, R., Maldonado, H. LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL. 2004: 222–229

    View details for Web of Science ID 000222781900033

  • Negotiating the meaning of representations in the mathematics classroom 6th International Conference of the Learning Sciences Tackman, J. A., Goldman, S. V. LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL. 2004: 640–640

    View details for Web of Science ID 000222781900136

  • Using assessments to improve equity in mathematics EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP Cole, K., Coffey, J., Goldman, S. 1999; 56 (6): 56-58

    View details for Web of Science ID 000079038000012