Dr. Malayna Bernstein

Biography

Malayna Bernstein directs the Faculty of Information’s Learning Hub, where she coordinates programs that support teaching and learning. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, focusing on literacies, resource pedagogies, and teacher identity. She holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she studied literature and nonfiction writing. Malayna has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Maryland, West Virginia University, and currently at the University of Toronto. Her research examines the cognitive and cultural dimensions of learning in diverse settings. She has served as a qualitative methodologist on a wide range of empirical projects, exploring areas such as teacher identity development during the West Virginia school strikes, women's experiences battling the opioid epidemic, firefighters' health, and student athletes' experiences with racism. Her work builds a participatory action research framework that fosters collaborative research efforts between participants and investigators.

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