His work focuses on investigating transformative experience — experiences where students actively use curricular concepts to see and experience the world in a personally meaningful, new way. The primary goal of this work is to better address why school learning often fails to make a difference in students’ everyday, out-of-school experience. Related to this work are investigations of infuences on transformative experience, methods of teaching for transformative experience, and the relationship between transformative experience and enduring understanding in the context of science education. Research on motivation, transfer of learning, and Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience are important in?uences on his work.