Amita Gupta

Amita Gupta is Professor of Early Childhood Education and former Department Chair in the School of Education at the City College of New York/CUNY. She has been in the field of early childhood education for more than thirty years with extensive cross-cultural experience.

Study Abroad in Urban India: A Multicultural Interdisciplinary Approach to Education

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This talk is inspired by the first Study Abroad course offered by CUNY’s City College of New York to India. The course objectives examined education and multiculturalism in their broadest forms as a group of CUNY students from multiple campuses, representing diverse academic degree levels, diverse disciplines, and diverse ethnic origins, made its way to … Read more

Diverse Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices: Voices and Images from Five Countries in Asia

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Diverse Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices explores issues in early childhood education and teacher preparation in five Asian countries: India, Singapore, China, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Some observed classrooms in these countries reflect influences that are simultaneously indigenous and colonial, local and global. By highlighting the diverse and often hybrid classroom pedagogies at … Read more

Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory, and Teaching Practices in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda

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Conceptualized within a socio-cultural constructivist and postcolonial paradigm, the book explores a definite tension between “Western” theories of child development and the “Indian” ways of being and thinking. Based on the author’s doctoral study, the book provides a richly descriptive and relatively unexamined account of the culturally complex and multi-dimensional relationship that exists in urban … Read more