Nancy Ares Author & Editor

The Editor: Nancy Ares, of the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development, conducts research using sociocultural, situated social practice, and critical theories as the framework for investigating classroom and community practices. Her work in high school mathematics classrooms focuses on studies of participation, agency, diversity, and pedagogy. In communities, her work emphasizes resource-rich approaches to understanding school and neighborhood revitalization. She is committed to bridging multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives in studying learning and pedagogy as complex phenomena. She teaches doctoral-level courses in learning and teaching theories, and research methods. She has taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate level.