Troy D Sadler

I am a professor of science education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education and serve as the Thomas James Distinguished Professor of Experiential Learning. My research focuses on how students negotiate complex socio-scientific issues and how these issues may be used as contexts for science learning. I am interested in how issues-based learning experiences can support student learning of science and development of practices essential for full participation in modern societies. My work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the US Department of Education, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as local foundations and state agencies. I have served in elected and appointed leadership roles in the world’s leading science education associations including NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research and the National Science Teachers Association. I recently completed a term as the Co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, one of the world’s leading journals for science education research.