Assistant Professor of Education
School of Education, Room #318
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-7738
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: victoria.hand@colorado.edu

Victoria Hand is assistant professor of education in curriculum and instruction. She is interested in issues of culture, learning, identity and equity in the mathematics classroom. Her research examines the development of opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms, and how these opportunities are negotiated differently by groups of students from various ethnic, racial, linguistic, and social backgrounds. She draws on situative and critical perspectives to analyze how the process of negotiation is influenced by the system of activity within a given classroom, and by broader sociopolitical processes and structures. Her teaching interests span a range of areas including equity in mathematics education, theories of mathematics teaching and learning, the design of classroom learning environments, and the analysis of classroom interaction.

Education:
PhD Educational Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, 2003
MA Learning, Design & Technology, Stanford University, Stanford, 1998
BA Quantitative Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1989