Ciara Thomas Murphy

Education

Ph.D. in Learning and Mind Sciences, UC Davis School of Education, in progress

M.A. in Community Mental Health, CIIS Department of Counseling Psychology, in progress

M.A. in Educational Leadership, Mills College School of Education, 2015

B.A. in Music with Highest Distinction, UC Berkeley, 2007

Academic Publications

Thomas Murphy, C., & Martin, L. (Revise & resubmit). Tinkering with pedagogical concepts: Making use of parallels between professional learning and student learning.

Martin, L., Athanases, S. Z., Sanchez, S. L., & Thomas Murphy, C. (Revise & resubmit). Figure making to support learning and discovery in an English language arts preservice teacher education course.

Thomas Murphy, C., & Lee, J. (Forthcoming). Student agency and responsive pedagogy in online learning spaces. In A. Cortez & J. R. Lizárraga (Eds.), Bloomsbury encyclopedia of social justice in education: Language, literacy, youth and culture (Vol. 6).

Thomas Murphy, C., & Martin, L. (2024). Situating reflective practice in experiential learning: A case study of educators’ professional learning through tinkering at home. Journal of Museum Education.

Martin, L., & Thomas Murphy, C. (2022). Tinkering in the time of COVID: Lessons from educators’ efforts to facilitate playful tinkering through online learning. International Journal of Play, 11(2), 127–144.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

Thomas Murphy, C., & Martin, L. (2024, June). Frustration as a catalyst for socially engaged exploratory learning. In C. C. Ching (Chair), Affect as outcome: Centering emotion and equity in learning sciences research [Conference symposium]. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York, USA.

Blake, A. R., Chen, G. A., Ostrowdun, C., Thomas Murphy, C., Vogelstein, L., Radke, S. C., Krishnamoorthy, R., Saba Fisher, K., Kelton, M. L., & Ma, J. Y. (2023). Contesting with feeling: Childhood in and through public education. In P. Blikstein, J. Van Aalst, R. Kizito, & K. Brennan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 1150–1153). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Martin, L., & Thomas Murphy, C. (2023, June). The future of making: A robust focus on maker educator preparation. In P. Blikstein (Chair), The future of maker education [Conference symposium]. International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Thomas Murphy, C., & Martin, L. (2022). Tinkering in parallel: Pathways for professional learning in education. In C. Chinn, E. Tan., C. Chan, & Y. Kali (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 2030–2031). Hiroshima, Japan: International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Buttiler, M. B., Thomas Murphy, C., Hoeft, F., Kovelman, I., & Uchikoshi, Y. (2022, April). Cognitive and linguistic factors in reading comprehension: Monolingual and bilingual children [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Thomas Murphy, C. (2019, September). Microanalysis of conceptual change through prosody in student discourse [Conference poster]. Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Essays and Additional Publications

Thomas Murphy, C. (2023). Nourishment in the analytic field. Critica, 5(1), 53–54.

Thomas Murphy, C. (2022). Thinking in the real. Critica, 3(1), 19–20.

Fellowships and Awards

Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis, 2018–2023

Mark Cary Reflective Learning Award, UC Davis School of Education, 2023