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College of Education New Faculty 2025-26 Joshua Danish
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Joshua Danish

Joshua Danish

Department Head, Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

 

 

 

 

Danish holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and is a two-time University of California, Los Angeles alumnus with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychological Studies.

What is the focus of your scholarship? 

My work focuses broadly on how children learn with and through representations such as drawings and diagrams. I often explore these questions by designing and developing innovative learning technologies to help students represent their ideas in new ways including network visualization and new forms of computer models. I am also an Activity Theorist, deeply interested in how the different ways that we organize and re-organize activities including teacher prompts, roles for students, and software tools helps re-organize the ways that learners think, learn, and act.

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