Publications

@article{anderson2024towards,

title = {Towards culturally sustaining design: Centering community’s voices for learning through Participatory Design},

author = {Maria J Anderson-Coto and Julie Salazar and John Louis-Strakes Lopez and R Mishael Sedas and Fabio Campos and Andres S Bustamante and June Ahn},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/anderson-coto-et-al-cultural-design.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction},

volume = {39},

pages = {100621},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {community, culture, family, funds of knowledge, HCI, informal learning, participatory design, play and games},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{guo2024buckets,

title = {Buckets of fun: Impacts of fraction ball activities on students' math-related emotions},

author = {Siling Guo and Drew Bailey and Katherine Rhodes and Kreshnik Begolli and Vanessa N Bermudez and LuEttaMae Lawrence and Daniela Alvarez-Vargas and Lourdes M Acevedo-Farag and June Ahn and Andres S Bustamante and others},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/buckets_of_fun_fraction_ball.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology},

volume = {92},

pages = {101645},

publisher = {JAI},

keywords = {k12 education, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{begolli2024incorporating,

title = {Incorporating Design Based Implementation Research with a Randomized Controlled Trial to develop and evaluate the efficacy of playful rational number learning},

author = {Kreshnik Begolli and Vanessa N Bermudez and LuEttaMae Lawrence and Lourdes M Acevedo-Farag and Sabrina Valdez and Evelyn Santana and Daniela Alvarez-Vargas and June Ahn and Drew Bailey and Katherine Rhodes and others},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/begolli-et-al-dbir-rct.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Contemporary Educational Psychology},

volume = {78},

pages = {102296},

publisher = {Academic Press},

keywords = {DBIR, k12 education, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{bermudez2023designing,

title = {Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community},

author = {Vanessa N Bermudez and Julie Salazar and Leiny Garcia and Karlena D Ochoa and Annelise Pesch and Wendy Roldan and Stephanie Soto-Lara and Wendy Gomez and Rigoberto Rodriguez and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and others},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/bermudez-et-al-playful-learning.pdf},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Early Childhood Research Quarterly},

volume = {65},

pages = {205–216},

publisher = {JAI},

keywords = {community, culture, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, infrastructuring, participatory design, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{belgrave2022using,

title = {Using a participatory design approach for co-creating culturally situated STEM enrichment activities},

author = {Ashlee Belgrave and Vanessa N Bermudez and Phebe Chew and Yiwen Lin and June Ahn and Andres S Bustamante},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/belgrave-et-al-PD.pdf},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology},

volume = {82},

pages = {101451},

publisher = {JAI},

keywords = {community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, participatory design, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{pesch2022reinventing,

title = {Reinventing the public square and early educational settings through culturally informed, community co-design: Playful Learning Landscapes},

author = {Annelise Pesch and Karlena D Ochoa and Katelyn K Fletcher and Vanessa N Bermudez and Rachael D Todaro and Julie Salazar and Hailey M Gibbs and June Ahn and Andres S Bustamante and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/fpsyg-13-933320.pdf},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},

volume = {13},

pages = {933320},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

keywords = {community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, infrastructuring, participatory design, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{garcia2022elevating,

title = {Elevating the ways in which Latina mothers perceive, do, and envision early STEM learning},

author = {Leiny Garcia and Wendy Roldan and Vanessa N Bermudez and Andres S Bustamante and June Ahn},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/garcia-et-al-latina-mothers-stem.pdf},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings of International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)},

keywords = {community, culture, equity and inclusion, family, funds of knowledge, informal learning, participatory design, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{GC2018,

title = {Building worlds: A connective ethnography of play in Minecraft},

author = {Anthony Pellicone and June Ahn},

url = {https://ahnjune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pellicone-ahn-2015-building-worlds-a-connective-ethnography-of-play-in-minecraft.pdf},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412015622345},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-07-01},

urldate = {2018-07-01},

journal = {Games and Culture},

volume = {13},

number = {5},

pages = {440-458},

keywords = {culture, HCI, informal learning, play and games, STEM},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}