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Peter Woods

Assistant Professor in Learning Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Dr. Peter J. Woods is an Assistant Professor in Learning Sciences at the 糖心原创. He received a PhD in Design, Informal, and Creative Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an Ed.M in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BS in Secondary Education/Mathematics from Marquette University.

Teaching Summary

As an educator, I strongly believe in the value of both creative practice and critical engagement across all disciplines. This core belief leads to a simple yet powerful teaching philosophy: through… read more

Research Summary

I study what and how people learn through creative production, with a particular interest in the role of cultural contexts and situated technologies in shaping liberatory pedagogies and curricula. I… read more

Selected Publications

  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Teachers College Record. 125(6), 85-109
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Adult Education Quarterly.
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Curriculum Inquiry. 53(4), 359-380
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Culture, Theory and Critique. 0(0), 1-16

I am currently accepting new doctoral students. In particular, I am interested in working with critical and social justice oriented scholars broadly interested in the following:

  • Informal and community oriented learning
  • Learning and identity development in and through the arts
  • Critical reinterpretations of culturally situated learning technologies
  • Interdisciplinary work at the intersection of education, cultural studies, and other critically oriented disciplines or fields (e,g,, visual cultures, posthumanism, sound studies, more)
  • The development of post-qualitative research methods

If you are interested in working together, please reach out to me at peter.woods@nottingham.ac.uk so we can develop a proposal together!

As an educator, I strongly believe in the value of both creative practice and critical engagement across all disciplines. This core belief leads to a simple yet powerful teaching philosophy: through the act of creating novel artifacts (both tangible and intangible) within social environments, students not only develop new knowledges but construct their own agency as individuals and intentionally engage with the socio-cultural world around them. I extend this philosophy to all areas of my own educative and creative practice, embedding this work into contexts as a diverse as high school math classrooms and DIY punk venues.

Current Research

I study what and how people learn through creative production, with a particular interest in the role of cultural contexts and situated technologies in shaping liberatory pedagogies and curricula. I conduct this work within multiple sites of research, including:

  • Do-it-yourself (DIY) experimental/noise music scenes
  • Arts-based data science classrooms
  • Online teacher professional development platforms
  • Social media based affinity spaces

In conducting this work, I explicitly take an interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from the learning sciences, cultural studies, curriculum studies, sound studies, and visual cultures research. In doing so, I extend my empirical work into theoretical contexts that involve explorations of noise, aesthetics, posthuman theories of learning, postqualitative research methods, and affect theory.

  • WOODS, PETER J. and ORTEGA, YECID, 2025. DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society. 3(1), 3-17
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2025. Springer Nature Switzerland.
  • WOODS, PETER J. and COPUR-GENCTURK, Y., 2024. Teaching and Teacher Education. 138, 16
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2024. Adult Education Quarterly. 74(1), 3-22
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2024. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 39(1b), 65-76
  • WOODS, PETER J., MATUK, CAMILLIA, DESPORTES, KAYLA, VACCA, RALPH, TES, MARIAN, VASUDEVAN, VEENA and AMATO, ANNA, 2024. Critical Studies in Education. 65(5), 441-459
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Teachers College Record. 125(6), 85-109
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Curriculum Inquiry. 53(4), 359-380
  • MATUK, CAMILLIA, DESPORTES, KAYLA, AMATO, ANNA, VACCA, RALPH, SILANDER, MEGAN, WOODS, PETER J. and TES, MARIAN, 2022. British Journal of Educational Technology. 53(5), 1159-1178
  • WOODS, PETER J., 2022. Mind, Culture, and Activity. 29(2), 169-185

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