Affiliations(s): University of Washington, College of Education
Location: Seattle, WA 98195 United States
Professional Webpage(s): http://faculty.washington.edu/pbell/

Expertise & Interest Descriptors

how and why people learn about science and technology, everyday learning across settings, scaffolding disciplinary inquiry in the classroom (esp. culturally responsive instruction, argumentation), social research methods in education (esp. design-based research & ethnography)



Selected Research & Publications

Conference :: Zimmerman, H. T., Reeve, S., & Bell, P. (2006). Ideas and reasoning about animals: Family conversations in a science center. Paper presented at a symposium entitled "Understanding the cultural foundations of children's biological knowledge: Insights from everyday cognition research in homes, museums, and classrooms" at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Resear.

Conference :: Bell, P., Bricker, L. A., Lee, T. R., Reeve, S., & Zimmerman, H. T. (2006). Understanding the cultural foundations of children's biological knowledge: Insights from everyday cognition research. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS).