Overview
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Objectives of the ICC
• What role do teacher preparation programs have in enhancing the intercultural competence of teacher candidates? |
Current Graduate Students
Mandeep Singh Brar, MS StudentMandeep (MANDY) is an international student from Punjab (India) with a strong background in Sociology & Education. His research interests revolve around abuse (at homes or in schools), the relationship between the abuser & the abused, childhood memories & related trauma, and the like. He works as a Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant at the “Intercultural and Classroom Culture Lab” under the supervision of Dr. Samara Madrid Akpovo and is the lead GRA for COLAB
Nagham Abou Zeid, MS StudentNagham is an international student and Fulbright Foreign Scholar from Lebanon. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the Lebanese American University. She works as a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Intercultural and Classroom Culture Lab under the supervision of Dr. Samara Madrid Akpovo. Nagham’s research interests are centered around prenatal, infancy, and early childhood development throughout adverse environments, especially poverty, and how that affects early onset behavioral disorders, social development, and mental health. |
Snigdha Rampal, MS StudentSnigdha is an international student from India. She is a trained graduate teacher (Certified) in English language and Social Sciences with two years of teaching experience in middle and high school. Given her graduate background in political science, she is interested in research regarding policy-making in education, multicultural classroom settings, socio-economic minorities, and the impact of globalization on post-colonial nations. |
Selected Publications(*Denotes graduate student or teacher practitioner) Thapa, S., & Nganga, L., & Madrid Akpovo, S. (2022). Early childhood teachers’ understandings of children’s emotional lives Nepal and Kenya: A majority world perspective. Early Education and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2022.2054258 *Sorrells, C. & Madrid Akpovo, S. (2022) “You can hold two things to be true at the same time”: The emotional duality of early childhood teachers’ experiences during COVID-19. Journal of Research in Childhood Education DOI:10.1080/02568543.2022.2044415 Madrid Akpovo, S., *Neessen, S., Nganga, L., & *Sorrells, C. (2021). Staying with discomfort: Early childhood teachers’ emotional themes to children’s peer culture aggression. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491211042376 Arndt, S., Madrid Akpovo, S., Tesar, M., Han, T. K., *Huang, F. & *Halladay, M. (2021). Collaborative Online Learning Across Borders (COLAB): Examining the intercultural understandings of preservice-teachers’ using a virtual cross-cultural university-based program. Journal of Research in Childhood Education. DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2021.1880994 Madrid Akpovo, S., Thapa, S., & *Halladay, M. (2020). Learning to see teaching as a cultural activity: US preservice-teachers’ significant experiences with Nepali mentor-teachers during an international field experience. Journal of Research in Childhood Education,34(1), 59-7, DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2019.1692107 Thapa, S., & Madrid Akpovo, S. (2020). Cultural humility in an intercultural mentor-mentee relationship: Overcoming Emotional “borders and borderlands” of Nepal-mentors and US-mentees. Asia Pacific Journal of Education. DOI/pdf/10.1080/02188791.2020.1848798?needAccess=true Lash, M., Madrid Akpovo, S. & Cushner, K. (2020). Developing the intercultural competency of early childhood preservice teachers: Preparing teachers for diverse classrooms. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. DOI.org/10.1080/10901027.2020.1832631 Nganga, L., Madrid Akpovo, S., Thapa, S., & *Mwangi, A. (2020). How neocolonialism and globalization affects the early childhood workforce in Nepal and Kenya. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, DOI: 10.1177/1463949120929471 Kambutu, J., Madrid Akpovo, S., Nganga, L., Thapa, S., & *Mwangi, A. (2020). Privatization of early childhood education (ECE): Implications for social justice in Kenya and Nepal. Policy Futures in Education, DOI:10.1177/1478210320922111 BooksMadrid Akpovo, S., Moran, M.J., Brookshire, R. (Eds) (2018). Collaborative cross-cultural research methodologies in early care and education contexts. New York, NY: Routledge Press. Madrid, S., Fernie, D., & Kantor, R. (Eds). (2015). Reframing the emotional worlds of the early childhood classroom. New York, NY: Routledge Press. Fernie, D., Madrid, S., & Kantor, R. (Eds). (2011). Educating toddlers to teachers: Learning to see and influence the school and peer cultures of classrooms. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. |