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Assistant Professor in Computational Literacy

School of Education and Social Policy

Northwestern University

(Applications should be submitted by October 15, 2007)

Recognizing that the ability to work with, create, and learn from computational artifacts is highly desirable for citizens in contemporary society, Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy has established a position for an assistant professor in computational literacy. We seek a scholar who studies how new technologies can improve learning in fundamental ways, by influencing cognition, construction, representation and/or interpersonal interactions. We welcome applications from candidates with interests in exploring how new and pervasive computational technologies such as computer-based modeling, visualization, scaffolded tools, virtual reality, games, ubiquitous computing, or social networking, enable powerful learning in schools and other settings. We are open to a wide range of approaches to scholarship. Appropriate research emphases can range from scholarship in the principled design and creation of novel technologies to scholarship that focuses on empirical study and evaluation of new approaches to computation. Applicants from learning sciences, education, computer science, media studies, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, anthropology, and other relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply. Teaching and advising responsibilities will include doctoral and master students in Learning Sciences and/or Human Development and Social Policy, as well as teaching courses in areas related to computational literacy in the school's undergraduate and teacher preparation programs. Please direct your application to Dr. Louis Gomez, search committee chair.

Northwestern is located in an attractive lakefront community adjacent to Chicago. For more information about the School of Education and Social Policy, go to http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu. Please mail a statement of research, teaching/training, and policy interests, vita, representative reprints, and 3 letters of recommendation to the appropriate search committee chair c/o:

Dean's Office
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208.

To ensure full consideration, all application materials must be received by October 15, 2007. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.