STEM Education Research Group

Dr. Anton Puvirajah is an Associate Professor of STEM Education and Chair of the Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics (CSSAL) Academic Research Cluster (ARC) in the Faculty of Education at Western University in London, ON. Prior to joining the Faculty of Education, he held academic appointments at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA and Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA. He has also been a high-school science teacher in both Canada and the United States.

Dr. Puvirajah earned his PhD in Teacher Education with a concentration in Science Education from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He has extensive research and teaching experience related to STEM education. At Wayne State University, he taught life sciences, physical sciences, and teaching methods courses to undergraduate and graduate students in elementary, middle, and high school teacher certification programs. At Kennesaw State and Georgia State Universities, he taught various face-to-face and online courses in the teacher certification, graduate professional, and graduate research-intensive programs. At Western, he teaches courses in the graduate research-intensive programs (PhD & MA), graduate professional programs (EdD & MPEd), and in the teacher education/certification program (BEd).

Dr. Puvirajah has active and well-developed research and outreach programs in teacher education and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning that align with his interests in examining how teachers and science learners use discourses to explore, negotiate, and develop their respective roles and identities within a community of practice (CoP). Specifically, within the STEM learning context, Puvirajah studies discourses that are enhanced through the use of technological tools and occurring in informal settings.

Dr. Puvirajah is currently accepting both MA and PhD students interested in STEM Education at this time.