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Dr. Amita Gupta is Associate Professor with the School of Education at The City College of New York. She is also on the Doctoral Faculty of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center; has served as Program Head of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at CCNY, and has served as Vice President of the New York State Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Education from Columbia University. Her doctoral research was awarded the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators/Merrill-Prentice Hall Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. Professor Gupta has been in the field of early education for twenty years and has extensive cross-cultural experience with school administration, teacher education, and classroom teaching in urban schools in both India and the U.S. Prior to joining CUNY she was Associate Director of an early education school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for ten years. She continues to offer professional development consultations with a strong inter-cultural focus in the areas of curriculum, child development, and teacher development for institutions and organizations in India and the U.S. EDUCATIONAL DEGREES Ed.D. (Early Childhood Teacher Education): Teachers College, Columbia University RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Gupta’s research interests are interdisciplinary and draw upon the fields of history, philosophy and sociology of education, urban education and comparative education. Her work has focused on early education with an emphasis on Teacher education, Postcolonial theory, Socio-cultural-historical constructivism in teaching and learning; and International and comparative education. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403971145 JOURNAL ARTICLES Gupta, A. (2008). Tracing global-local transitions within early childhood curriculum and Gupta, A. (2007). Vygotskian perspectives to enhance children’s development and balance creativity with structure in the early childhood classroom. Early Child Development and Care. Gupta, A. (2006). Early experiences and funds of knowledge and beliefs of immigrant and minority teacher candidates dialog with theories of child development in a teacher education classroom. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 27(1), 3-18. Gupta, A. (2004). The challenge of working with large class size: Dispositions of early childhood teachers in India. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 5(3), 361-377. Gupta, A. (2003). Socio-cultural-historical constructivism in the preparation and practice of early childhood teachers in New Delhi, India. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 24(3), 163-170. Gupta, A. (2001). Implementing Change at the Pre-Primary level in a School in India. International Journal of Early Childhood. 33(1). BOOK CHAPTERS/ENTRIES/BOOK REVIEWS Gupta, A. (in process). Head Start. In T. C. Hunt, J. C. Carper, T. J. Lasley II, & C. D. Raisch (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Gupta, A. (in process). Does the play-work dichotomy exist in Indian pedagogical debates as it does within the Euro-American context? In S. Rogers (Ed.) Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education: Concepts, Contexts and Cultures. Oxford, UK: Routledge. Gupta, A. (2007). Introduction: culture, curriculum, and points of intersection. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Gupta, A. (2007). Going to school in India. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Latheef, M. & Gupta, A. (2007). Going to school in Maldives. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Gupta, A. (2007). Erik Erikson: a biography. In R. New & M. Cochran (Eds.) Early Childhood Education (Four volumes): An International Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Praeger. Volume 3, pp. 674-677. Gupta, A. (2007). Book Review - The economics of elementary education in India: The challenge of public finance, private provision and household costs. The International Journal of Early Years Education. October 2007. PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2008: AERA New York: The Historical Impact of Social, Political and Economic Forces on Current Systems of Education in South Asia. 2008: AERA New York: Moral Dilemmas - “Who do we think we are, telling them they have to change that?” Urban early childhood education faculty grapple with culture in student teaching placements. 2007: European Early Childhood Research Association, Prague: Vygotskian Perspectives on the Facilitation of Children's Development through Dramatic Play: Balancing Structure with Freedom of Exploration and Innovation. 2007: Redesigning Pedagogy: Culture, Knowledge and Understanding conference at the National Institute of Education, Singapore: Navigating the multiple strands of a postcolonial curriculum in early childhood classrooms in India. 2007: Comparative Education Society of Asia, University of Hong Kong: Relating academic achievement to specific educational and societal influences. 2006: AERA San Francisco: Embracing native discourses as immigrant teacher candidates meet mainstream educational theory 2006: AERA San Francisco: Early education in India: negotiating large classrooms, high stakes assessment, academic mandates and the whole child. 2006: Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania: The insider-outsider dynamic of a postcolonial naturalistic inquiry. 2006: CUNY Conference on South Asians and the Diaspora: Points of Connections. Panel President for South Asian Youth in New York City: Socio-cultural and educational challenges and opportunities. 2005: AERA Montreal: Immigrant urban undergraduate education majors at CCNY speak of current challenges and early recollections. 2005: AERA Montreal: A curriculum with multiple identities: Postcolonial negotiations in urban Indian classrooms. 2005: Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania: Finding meaning within early childhood postcolonial research. INVITED PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS 2007 (August 8): Invited by The Summerfields School in New Delhi, India to give a talk to Pre-K through Grade 2 teachers on issues in early childhood education. 2007 (April 18): Invited by the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University to lead a Book Talk and Panel Discussion on Going to School in South Asia. 2006 (November 1): Invited by the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University to give a Book Talk on Early childhood education, postcolonial theory and teaching practices in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda. 2006 (July 24-28): Invited by the Delhi Public School Society to conduct a Summer Institute on “A culturally appropriate approach to child development and curriculum design”: A five day workshop for N-2 school teachers in New Delhi, India. 2006 (May 22): Invited by IBM Burlington Asian Network to give a site-wide talk on “Current challenges in early schooling and education”. 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