In response to a tweet from @jennihayman, I did a quick scan through my endnote database and extracted this list of women in/around learning technology and the learning sciences whose work I’ve found particularly insightful and inspiring.
I hope this is useful enough to those of you who are searching for people to read/follow to compensate for the grief I will get from people I’ve mistakenly left off the list.
Patricia Alexander | Megan Bang | Brigid Barron |
Sian Bayne | Margaret Bearman | Helen Beetham |
Sue Bennett | Kate Bielaczyc | Joan Bliss |
Henny Boshuizen | Jos Boys | Angela Brew |
Ann Brown | Alison Carr-Chellman | Lucila Carvalho |
Michelene Chi | Betty Collis | Grainne Conole |
Laura Czerniewicz | Madeleine Dahlgren | Gloria Dall’Alba |
Crina Damşa | Linda Darling-Hammond | Sharon Derry |
Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld | Nina Bonderup Dohn | Anne Edwards |
Rachel Ellaway | Randi Engle | Peg Ertmer |
Keri Facer | Nancy Falchikov | Tara Fenwick |
Marilyn Fleer | Dedre Gentner | Lesley Gourlay |
Julia Gouvea | Kris Gutiérrez | Linda Harasim |
Nira Hativa | Caroline Haythornthwaite | Sara Hennessy |
Davinia Hernández-Leo | Jan Herrington | Star Roxanne Hiltz |
Cindy Hmelo-Silver | Vivien Hodgson | bell hooks |
Celia Hoyles | Sarah Howard | Mizuko Ito |
Sanna Jarvelä | Karen Jensen | Yael Kali |
Judy Kay | Janet Kolodner | Karen Könings |
Deanna Kuhn | Kristiina Kumpulainen | Susanne Lajoie |
Susan Land | Diana Laurillard | Jean Lave |
Nancy Law | Sari Lindblom-Ylanne | Allison Littlejohn |
Kirsti Lonka | Marcia Linn | Rose Luckin |
Lina Markauskaite | Lucia Mason | Robin Mason |
Susan McKenney | Erica McWilliam | Barbara Means |
Naomi Miyake | Roxana Moreno | Bonnie Nardi |
Monika Nerland | Rikke Nørgård | Diana Oblinger |
Gale Parchoma | Trena Paulus | Donatella Persico |
Francesca Pozzi | Mimi Recker | Lauren Resnick |
Rita Richey | Margaret Riel | Barbara Rogoff |
Jen Ross | Alison Rossett | Gilly Salmon |
Annalisa Sannino | Maggi Savin-Baden | Eileen Scanlon |
Marlene Scardamalia | Sylvia Scribner | Anna Sfard |
Val Shute | Christine Sinclair | Bridget Somekh |
Chris Steeples (Smith) | Vanessa Svilha | Kate Thompson |
Mary Thorpe | Sherry Turkle | Simone Volet |
Stella Vosniadou | Shirin Vossoughi | Barb Wasson |
Bev Woolf | Pam Woolner | Pippa Yeoman |
I’m proud to say that hanfod.NL’s leadership is 3/4 non-white male powered with Felicity Healey-Benson, Nina Bonderup Dohn and the first Ffenomenolegydd Preswyl [Phenomenologist in Residence] Professor Cathy Adams 😀