Publications

Recent Publications Focus On:

Equity and makerspaces, Equity and making
Making and makerspaces for social justice
Rightful presence, justice in teaching and learning STEM
Makerspaces, hackerspaces, equity and justice
Equity and STEM education

Publications are downloadable by clicking on the link.

2019

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2019). Designing for rightful presence in STEM: Community ethnography as pedagogy as an equity-oriented design approach. Journal of the Learning Sciences. DOI:  10.1080/10508406.2019.1591411

Tan, E., Calabrese Barton, A., & Benavides, A. (2019). Engineering for Sustainable Communities: Epistemic Tools in Support of Equitable and Consequential Middle School Engineering. Science Education. 10.1002/sce.21515

Schenkel, K., Calabrese Barton, A., Tan, E. & Gonzalez, M. (in press, Sept. 2019). An Engineering Funds of Knowledge Framework. Science & Children.

Schenkel, K., Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2019). Framing equity through a close examination of critical science agency.  Cultural Studies in Science Education.

Restrepo Nazar, C. Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E., (2019). Critically Engaging Engineering in Place by Localizing Counternarratives when Engineering for Sustainable Communities. Science Education. DOI: 10.1002/sce.21500

Kang, H., Calabrese-Barton, A., Tan, E., Simpkins, S., Rhee, H., & Turner, C. (2019). How do middle school students become STEM-minded persons? Middle school students’ participation in science activities and identification with STEM careers. Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21492.

2018

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2018). A longitudinal study of equity-oriented STEM-rich making among youth from historically marginalized communities. American Education Research Journal. DOI: 10.3102/0002831218758668 EquitySTEMMakingAERJ

Calabrese Barton & Tan, E. (2018). STEM-rich Maker Learning: Designing for Equity with Youth of Color. Teachers College Press. New York, NY.

Tan, E., Calabrese Barton, A., & Schenkel, K. (2018). Equity and the maker movement: STEM-rich making with elementary aged youth in community settings. Science & Children. Equity and the Maker Movement Science and Children

Tan, E. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2018). “Trying to solve darkness”: Critical pedagogy of place and intersectionality in community-based STEM-rich making with youth from non-dominant communities. Equity and Excellence in Education51(1), 48-61. 5. Trying to Solve Darkness

Ryoo, J. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2018). Equity in STEM Rich Making. Equity and Excellence in Education51(1), 3-6. 1. INTRODUCTION.Equity in STEM rich Making Pedagogies and Designs

Haverly, C., Calabrese Barton, A., Schwarz, C. & Braaten, M. (2018). “Making Space”: How Two Beginning Teachers Create Opportunities for Equitable Sense-Making in Elementary Science. Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487118800706.

2017

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2017). Designing for Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM. Fablearn Conference, Stanford, CA. RightfulPresenceFablearn

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2017). A longitudinal study of equity-oriented STEM-rich making among youth from historically marginalized communities. Fablearn Conference, Stanford, CA. Culture of Equity in STEM-rich Making

Birmingham, D. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2017). “But the science we do here matters”: Youth authored cases of consequential learning. Science Education, 101(5), 818-844. But the Science We Do Here Matters

Greenberg, D. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2017). “For Girls to Feel Safe”: Preteen Women’s Critical Community-Informed Engineering Design for Sexual Assault Prevention. Girlhood Studies. greenberg and Calabresebarton

Calabrese Barton, A. Tan, E., & Greenberg, D. (2017). The Makerspace Movement: Sites of Possibilities for Equitable Opportunities to Engage Underrepresented Youth in STEM. Teachers College Record, 119(7). Equitable Making & Youth in STEM

2016

Calabrese Barton, A., Tan, E., & Shin, M. (2016). Mobilities of criticality: Space-making, identity and agency in youth-centered makerspaces. Presented at the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO (November 2015). Also, submitted to Journal of Learning Sciences, January 2016. MobilitiesofCriticality

2015

Dawson, E., Seakins, A., Archer, L., Calabrese Barton, A., & Dierking, L. (2015). Equity in informal science learning: a practice-research brief (Equity Pathways in Informal STEM Learning). London, UK: King's College London.

Calabrese Barton, A., Dierking, L., Greenberg, D., Archer, L., Dawson, E., & Seakins, A. (2015). Pathways in informal science learning: a practice-research brief (The Youth Access & Equity in Informal Science Learning (ISL) project). London, UK: King's College London.

Dierking, L., Archer, L., Dawson, E., Calabrese Barton, L., Greenberg, D., & Seakins, A. (2015). Research & practice agenda: equity pathways in informal STEM learning (The Youth Access & Equity in Informal Science Learning (ISL) project). London, UK: King's College London.

Gutiérrez, K. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2015). Structure and agency in science education. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 52(4), 574-583. DOI 10.1002/tea.21229. Gutierrez and Calabrese-2015-Journal_of_Research_in_Science_Teaching

Kissling, M. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2015). Place-Based Education: (Re)Integrating Ecology and Economy. Bank Street Occasional Paper Series.

2014

Birmingham, D. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2014). Putting on a green carnival: Youth taking educated action on socioscientific issues. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 51(3), 286-314. DOI: 10.1002/tea.21127. green carnival jrst

Calabrese Barton, A., Tan, E. & O’Neill, T. (2014). Science learning in urban science education: New conceptual tools and stories of possibilities. S. Abell and N. Lederman (Eds.). Handbook of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 2. New York: Routledge. p. 246-265.

2013

Calabrese Barton, A., Birmingham, D., Sato, T., Calabrese Barton, S., & Tan, E. (2013). Youth as Community Science Experts in Green Energy Technologies. After school matters 18, 25-33. ASM.GETCity

Tan, E., Kang, H. O’Neill, T. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2013). Desiring a career in STEM-related fields: How middle school girls articulate and negotiate between their narrated and embodied identities in considering a STEM trajectory. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 50(10), p.1143-1179. DOI: 10.1002/tea.21123. Tan JRST 2013.

Kissling, M. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2013). Interdisciplinary Study of the Local Power Plant: Cultivating Ecological Citizens. Social Studies Research and Practice 8(3), 128-142.

Calabrese Barton, A. & Berchini, C. (2013). Pathways to Insideness: Teaching Science in Urban Settings. Theory into Practice, 52(1), 21-27. DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2013.743765

Tsurusaki, B., Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2013). Boundary objects and powerful science teaching and learning. Science Education, 97(1):1-31. Boundary Objects

McLaughlin, D. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2013). Preservice Teachers’ Uptake and Understanding of Funds of Knowledge in Elementary Science. Journal of Science Teacher Education. 24(1):13-36. DOI 10.1007/s10972-012-9284-1. McLaughlin and ACB

2012

Calabrese Barton, A., Kang, H., Tan, E., O’Neill, T., & Brecklin, C. (2012). Crafting a Future in Science: Tracing Middle School Girls’ Identity Work Over Time and Space. American Education Research Journal, doi: 10.3102/0002831212458142. AERJ-2012.IdT

Calabrese Barton, A. (2012). Citizen(s’) science. A Response to" The Future of Citizen Science." Democracy and Education 20(2),12. ACB.Citizen(s)Science

Rose, S. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2012). Should Great Lakes City Build a New Power Plant? How Youth Navigate Complex Socioscientific Issues. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 49(5), 541-567. PowerPlant

2010

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2010). We be burnin: Agency, Identity and Learning in a Green Energy Program. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 19(2), 187-229. JLS.CommunityScienceExpert

Calabrese Barton, A. & Tan, E. (2010). The new green roof: Activism, Science and Greening the Community. Journal of Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 10(3), 207 – 222. Barton-Tan2010_CJSMTE 2010

Tan, E. & Calabrese Barton, A. (2010). Transforming science learning and student participation in 6^th grade science: A case study of an urban minority classroom. Equity & Excellence in Education, 43(1), 38-55.