Name: Brittany Aronson
Title: Associate Professor of Education (teacher education)
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Phone: 824-863-8921
Email: baa5633@psu.edu
Office address: 265 Chambers Building
Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-brittany-aronson
Brittany Aronson joins the Penn State College of Education as associate professor of education (teacher education) from Miami University in Ohio, where she served as assistant professor in educational leadership.
Her research work has been rooted in discovering where inequality exists within the education system and how to best create lasting and meaningful change. Her research agenda has two related strands: preparing educators and community members to actively work against oppressive school structures and the role educational policy plays in teaching and teacher education.
Aronson’s work has been published in the Review of Educational Research, Journal of Critical Policy Studies, Teachers College Record and Multicultural Perspectives.
She received her doctorate in cultural studies from the University of Tennessee in 2014 and holds two certificates in qualitative research methods in education and educational policy.
Her hope is that her students realize that being willing to listen to others and go to uncomfortable places is how change for the better is achieved.
“I bring my own positionality as a multiracial Latina scholar to the classroom to demonstrate vulnerability that is often required in doing justice-oriented work,” Aronson said. “We don’t all share the same lived experiences that have shaped us, but we can share our learned experiences that are ever-evolving.”