Uma Ganesan

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley · Department of Teaching and Learning

It is paramount that today's schools prepare teachers to work with multilingual learners, many of whom are in the early stages of learning the language of schooling. Although many studies focus on doing just that, few studies examine this from the lens of multilingual parents of varied backgrounds and languages. This collective auto-ethnography giv...

Attention to developing interculturality during teacher preparation is increasingly important as student populations continue to be more globally mobile. The present study investigates an embodied way of helping preservice teachers develop the interculturality needed to teach immi-grant/refugee populations through dance story intercultural exchange...

One of the most commonly expressed values of schools around the United States is preparing youth for citizenship (Hahn, 2001; 2021). Preparation of citizens is a complicated task, made all the more so when considering the history of colonialism and erasure of marginalized groups. Sabzaliean, Shear, and Snyder’s (2021) examination of state civics an...

The overarching objectives of this paper are to explore programs and curricula that develop K-12 students’ interest in active learning, environmental consciousness and awareness about local and global issues, community engagement, critical thinking, problem-solving, and citizenship and leadership skills. This study employs a qualitative methodology...

Informal learning experiences can provide PK-12 students with the opportunity to enhance their learning of, attitudes toward, and interest in STEM. This study explored the impact of informal STEM learning experiences on Latinx high school students. Through an authentic STEM program, we investigated how students' science and engineering skills, prac...

Increased globalization of the world economy, growth in human migration, and rapid developments in science and technology have required people to develop intercultural communication skills. Teachers play a crucial role in developing intercultural competence among students in our globalized, multilingual classrooms. The need for fostering collaborat...

This arts-practice research study explores what happens when preservice high school teachers (aka teacher-learners) and local refugee communities engage in the co-creation of art together via an arts-and community-based project. Grounded in social justice teacher education, the researchers conducted a 2 week workshop in which participants included...

Increased globalization of the world economy, growth in human migration, and rapid developments in science and technology have required people to develop intercultural communication skills. Teachers play a crucial role in developing intercultural competence among students in our globalized, multilingual classrooms. The need for fostering discourse...

Increased globalization of the world economy, growth in human migration, and rapid developments in science and technology have required people to develop intercultural communication skills. Teachers play a crucial role in developing intercultural competence among students in our globalized, multilingual classrooms. The need for fostering discourse...

This paper explores the use of arts and community-based (ACB) approaches to intercultural teacher education. Twenty-four preservice teachers and five adult Yazidi refugees/community members participated in this study which involved a two-week arts-based workshop in Fall 2019 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Data for the study included pre-and...

English language learners (ELLs) are a talented pool of culturally and linguistically diverse students who are persistently increasing both in absolute size and percentage in the U.S. school population; however, they are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in college as well as in the workforce (Natio...

This educational research literature review paper aims to discuss the rationale, review eight empirical research studies, and identify knowledge gaps in culturally relevant pedagogy in science education. This paper focuses on synthesis, review, and comparison of the findings of the empirical studies, and categorizes them into thematic heads such as...