Flávio S. Azevedo is Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning, Simmons School of Education and Human Development, and the lead PI of the Learning Everywhere Lab in the same institution. Dr. Azevedo’s research sits at the intersection of the nature of STEM interests and interest-driven participation, learning in- and out-of-schools, and society and discourse. Broadly, to speak of people’s interest-based participation in practices is to speak about the multitude of ways in which diverse individuals engage any given activity, so that pedagogies for interest development can be powerful pedagogies of inclusion, community building, and social change. Dr. Azevedo’s investigates interest-driven participation and learning across timescales and settings of STEM practice (classrooms, after-school programs, hobbies, and museums), as well as the socio-cultural and political contexts of such practices, so as to broaden and deepen participation in STEM and to actively intervene on mechanisms that (re)produce inequities across educational spaces. Dr. Azevedo is a Spencer Foundation fellow, a member of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and the American Educational Research Association, past president of AERA’s SIG-Learning Sciences, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Learning Sciences. He holds a B.A. in electrical engineering, a M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in the learning sciences, and his work has appeared in such venues as the Journal of the Learning Sciences, Cognition & Instruction, and Science Education, among others.
