Research Interests

Youth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods

Education

Ph.D., Education – Stanford University
B.A., Sociology – Stanford University

Select Publications

Booker, A., Montgomery-Block, K., Scott, Z., Reyes, b., & Onyewuenyi, A. (2011). Public scholarship within an urban school district: A community and university partnership approach to service-learning. Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 1, 67-87.

Booker, A. (2010). Framing youth civic participation: Technical, pragmatic, and political learning.” In L. Lin, H. Varenne, & E. W. Gordon, (Eds.) Educating comprehensively: Varieties of educational experiences (209-231). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.

Goldman, S., & Booker, A. (2009). Making Math a Definition of the Situation: Families as Sites for Mathematical Practices. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 40(4), 369-387.

Goldman, S., Booker, A., & McDermott, M. (2007). Mixing the digital, social, and cultural: Learning, identity, and agency in youth participation. In D. Buckingham. (Ed.) Youth, identity, and digital media (185-206). MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.

Goldman, S., Mercier, E. M., & Booker, A. (2009). Partnering with K-12 educators in collaborative design of learning technology. In C. DiGiano, S. Goldman, & M. Chorost. (Eds.) Educating Learning Technology Designers (62-79). New York, NY: Routledge.

Booker, A., Goldman, S., & Mercier, E. M. (2008). Interdisciplinarity in learning technology design courses. In C. DiGiano, S. Goldman, & M. Chorost. (Eds.) Educating learning technology designers (122-144). New York, NY: Routledge.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, School of Education, UC Davis, 2009-present

Lecturer & Program Director – Learning, Design, & Technology Master’s Program, School of Education, Stanford University, 2008-09

Awards and Honors

• Fellow, UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (2012)
• Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Presidential Fellow (2010)
• Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, 2009
• Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) New Scholar Travel Award, 2009
• IBM Distinguished Student Research Award, 2003
• Stanford University School of Education Nicoll Fellowship and Research Award, 2002

Current Activities and Service

• Member, American Anthropological Association
• Member, American Educational Research Association
• Member, International Society Of the Learning Sciences

Courses Taught at UC Davis

• EDU 110 – Introduction to Educational Psychology
• EDU 206B – Inquiry into Classroom Practice: Application of Teacher Research Approaches
• EDU 215 – Research on Achievement Motivation in Education
• EDU 257 – Computer Technology in Mathematics Education
• EDU 292 – Manipulatives, Media, & Technology for Learning
• EDU 292 – Youth Participatory & Interactive Culture