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  • Andrew D. Coppens, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Education in Learning Sciences
    Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Studies

    Coppens holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz. Coppens' appointment involves research and teaching in cultural and developmental psychology, the learning sciences, and qualitative research methods. His research focuses on cultural processes of learning and development in the family and community contexts of non-dominant communities.

    He has conducted research on children's learning and development in everyday, informal settings with rural, middle-class, and Indigenous-heritage communities in the US, Mexico, Ecuador, Germany, India, and Bhutan. Much of this research examines cultural patterns in whether children's learning involves their integration in or segregation from the work of adults and other experts, as well as the cultural strengths that children take up from learning in informal settings.

    Coppens is one of several founding PIs of the New Hampshire Youth Retention Initiative (YRI), a collaborative and interdisciplinary research program understanding the affordances and constraints for youth and families imagining and pursuing varied educational, occupational, and residential futures. The research is focused on developing sustainable and strengths-based educational and workforce pathways for youth, and to address human capital extraction patterns among rural communities. YRI research is or has been funded by UNH CoRE, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the NH Charitable Foundation.
  • Teaching Activities

  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Qual Fieldwork & Data Analysis Taught course
  • Qual Inquiry in Research Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2023
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Hum Dev & Lrn: Cultural Persp Taught course 2022
  • Qual Inquiry in Research Taught course 2022
  • Critical Social Justice Ed Taught course 2022
  • Critical Social Justice Ed/Hon Taught course 2022
  • Critical Social Justice Educ Taught course 2022
  • Hum Dev & Lrn: Cultural Persp Taught course 2022
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2022
  • Culture in Rrch on Lrn & Dev Taught course 2021
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2021
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2020
  • Qual Inquiry in Research Taught course 2020
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2020
  • Rsrch Culture, Behavior, & Dev Taught course 2020
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2019
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2019
  • Qualitative Inquiry in Educatn Taught course 2019
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2018
  • Rsrch Culture, Behavior, & Dev Taught course 2018
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2018
  • Qualitative Inquiry in Educatn Taught course 2018
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2017
  • Stdy/Culture & Climate Change Taught course 2017
  • SocioCultur Perspc Tch & Learn Taught course 2017
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2017
  • Qualitative Inquiry in Educatn Taught course 2017
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2016
  • Rsrch Culture, Behavior, & Dev Taught course 2016
  • Rsrch Exp/Education Taught course 2016
  • Human Development & Learning Taught course 2016
  • Human Develp & Learn:Educ Psyc Taught course 2016
  • Active Citizen/Multicult World Taught course 2015
  • Human Devlp & Learn/Educ Psyc Taught course 2015
  • Education And Training

  • B.S. Kinesiology: Outdoor Education, University of New Hampshire
  • M.S. Psychology, University of California
  • Ph.D. Psychology (designated emphasis in Latin American & Latino Studies), University of California
  • Full Name

  • Andrew Coppens
  • Mailing Address

  • University of New Hampshire

    Education

    321 Hamilton Smith Hall

    Durham, NH  03824

    United States