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Christina Krist

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Christina Krist

Associate Professor

stinakri@stanford.edu

Assistant: Leslie Dinan

Office: CERAS 415

Biography

Dr. Krist was an Assistant Professor of science education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining the Stanford faculty. Her work focuses on supporting meaningful student participation in science practices, teacher professional learning, and designing for more humanizing forms of science learning. Her current projects focus on bringing together various configurations of community organizations, teachers, families, and scientists to develop science learning experiences that promote communities’ visions for thriving. She received her PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 2016 and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Maryland from 2016-2017. Her early career work has been supported by an NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and was recently recognized with NARST’s Early Career Research Award.

Other Titles

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

Program Affiliations

CTE
CTE: Science, Engineering and Technology Education
Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)
(MA) STEP

Research Interests

Curriculum and Instruction | Equity in Education | Professional Development | Science Education | Teachers and Teaching

See a full list of GSE Faculty research interests >

Recent Publications

Ko, M.-L. M., Krist, C., Hug, B., Wingert, K., Suarez, E., Lauren, L. H., … Light, E. (2024). EMPOWER: Enacting Materials to Promote Ownership, Engagement, and Relevance. International Conference on the Learning Sciences ..., 2024, 2303–2304.

Krist, C. (S. (2024). Striving for Relationality: Teacher Responsiveness to Relational Cues When Eliciting Students' Science Ideas. COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION, 42(2), 207–242.

Parr, E. D., Dyer, E. B., Machaka, N., & Krist, C. (2023). Understanding Joint Exploration: the Epistemic Positioning Underlying Collaborative Activity in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, 23(3), 479–496.

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