Postdoctoral Research Fellow Transformative Education Lab

Job description

Description The Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar who will support the Transformative Education Lab . The Lynch School emphasizes research and practice in “formative education,” an approach in which educators are responsible for fostering the development of whole people, including interrelations among interpersonal, emotional, ethical, and spiritual dimensions. The new Transformative Education Lab disseminates information about and establishes connections among initiatives across the school which contribute to a research-based understanding of formative education. The Lab defines terms, prototypes educational models and tools, compiles existing research, and identifies opportunities for work to expand our understanding of formative education across educational settings. We seek a postdoctoral fellow who will work under the supervision of mentor faculty to maintain an active Lab, facilitating cross-disciplinary partnerships aimed at testing innovative educational models and tools. The fellow will engage in activities such as prototyping educational tools, fostering collaborative conversations among facul...