Rate My Professor Ananda Marin

Marin's research as a learning scientist centers on the socio-ecological and cultural dimensions of learning and development. She collaborates with Indigenous communities, community-based organizations, and collectives to co-design educational environments that promote community well-being. Her work employs video-based methodologies to analyze interactions in science-related and arts-based contexts, emphasizing relationality, embodied movement, and place. Notable publications include "Toward Just and Sustainable Futures: Human Learning and Relationality Within Socio-Ecological Systems" (Vossoughi, Marin, & Bang, Review of Research in Education, 2024), "Ambulatory sequences: Ecologies of learning by attending and observing on the move" (Cognition and Instruction, 2020), "“Look it, this is how you know:” Family forest walks and knowledge building about the natural world" (Marin & Bang, Cognition and Instruction, 2018), "Nature–culture constructs in science learning: Human/non-human agency and intentionality" (Bang & Marin, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015), and "Muskrat theories, tobacco in the streets, and living Chicago as Indigenous land" (Bang et al., Environmental Education Research, 2014). She has received the Lena Astin Faculty Mentoring Award (2022), International Society of the Learning Sciences Early Career Award (2020–2021), and UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group Fellowship (2020). Principal investigator or co-PI on grants from the Spencer Foundation, NSF, and UCLA.