Faculty profile: Tanner Vea

Name: Tanner Vea

Title: Assistant Professor of Education

Department: Learning and Performance Systems

Phone: 814-863-7380

Email: thv10@psu.edu

Office address: 314E Keller Building

Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/thv10

Vea, who also is an affiliate faculty member with the Rock Ethics Institute, is a socioculturally oriented learning scientist who studies the intersections between learning, politics and design. He uses ethnographic and other qualitative methods, as well as design-based research methods. There are two current strands of this work: how politics, as the contest over the definition and distribution of social goods, shapes learning processes; and how politics and ethics may be considered as essential dimensions of the design of learning technologies. Additional areas of interest include: affect and emotion, animals, critical theory, human-ecological relations, identity, ideology, materialism, and social practice theory.