Althea Scott Nixon

University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow

anixon@ucsd.edu, http://www.communication.ucsd.edu/anixon

Education

Ph.D. in Education, University of California, Los Angeles (2008)
M.S. in Education, University of Pennsylvania (1999)
B.A. in Psychology, Harvard University (1998)

Research

Althea Nixon’s research and teaching focus on the ways children and adolescents from culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse backgrounds draw on new media technologies in both formal and informal learning environments. She takes a developmental perspective on youth reasoning, literacy, and identity as it involves learning with a range of technologies in elementary school classrooms as well as urban community technology centers for youth ages six to 18

Publications

Nixon, A. S. (2009). Mediating social thought through digital storytelling. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 4, 63-76.

Nixon, A. S., & Gutiérrez, K. D. (2007). Digital literacies for young English learners: Productive pathways toward equity and robust learning. In C. Genishi & A. L. Goodwin (Eds.), Diversities in early childhood education: Rethinking and doing (pp. 121-135). NY: Routledge Falmer.

Battey, D., Kafai, Y. B., Nixon, A. S., & Kao, L. (2007). Professional development for teachers on gender equity in the sciences: Initiating the conversation. Teachers College Record, 109, 221-243.

Kafai, Y. B., Nixon, A. S., & Burnam, B. (2007). Digital dilemmas: How elementary pre-service teachers reason about students’ appropriate computer and Internet use. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 15, 409-424.

Kafai, Y. B., Sandoval, W. A., Enyedy, N., Nixon, A. S., & Herrera, F. (Eds.). (2004). Proceedings for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Embracing diversity in the learning sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. (in press). Qualitative research: Cultural-historical activity theory. To appear in P. Peterson, E. Baker, & B. McGaw (Eds.), The International encyclopedia of education, Third Edition. Elsevier.

Nixon, A. S. (in preparation). The multimodality of race, ethnicity, and gender. Examining issues of identity through the practice of digital storytelling.

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