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May 16, 2022 • Daniel DiPrinzio
Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Early Childhood Education Program Dr. Foram Bhukhanwala has been awarded a PAsmart Grant of $632,258 to expand apprenticeships opportunities in the undergraduate PreK-4 Program. The grant, from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry...
Jul 13, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Early Childhood Education Program Dr. Foram Bhukhanwala has been awarded a PAsmart Grant to expand the apprenticeships opportunities in the PreK-4 Program for Early Childhood Education Working Professionals from the Pennsylvania Department of...
Feb 21, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
The role of early childhood education professionals is changing, and Dr. Foram Bhukhanwala, associate professor of Education and director of early childhood/elementary education programs, is putting Arcadia on the forefront of providing undergraduate degrees for these incumbent professionals who...
DR. FORAM BHUKHANWALA is assistant professor and director of undergraduate and graduate early childhood/elementary education programs at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA. She has a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education from University of Georgia. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degree in Human Development from Nirmala Niketan, College of Home Science, Mumbai, India. Dr. Bhukhanwala’s scholarship focuses on integrating arts-based pedagogy (specifically Theater of the Oppressed) within teaching and teacher education. At Arcadia, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on topics such as child and adolescent development, cultural nature of human development, teaching and assessing young children, and play. She has co-facilitated arts-based seminars (Theater of the Oppressed) for pre-service teachers and continues to integrate Theater of the Oppressed activities in her courses. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Bhukhanwala has had varied experiences of working in culturally and socio-economically diverse settings in her home country, India.
Research Interests: Teacher education, Qualitative research, Arts-based research, Theater of the Oppressed
Sample Publications:
Bhukhanwala, F. (2014). Theater of the oppressed in an after-school program: Middle school students’ perspectives on bullying and prevention. Middle School Journal, (September, 2014), 3-12.
Bhukhanwala, F. & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2012). Exploring Perspective-Taking, Empathic understanding, and teacher identities through theater approaches in a student teaching seminar. Teaching and Teacher Education, 18(6), 675-691.
Languages
Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
The University of Georgia 2007
Ph.D., Major in Early Childhood Education
Nirmala Niketan, College of Home Science, Mumbai, India 1994
Master of Science, Major in Human Development
Nirmala Niketan, College of Home Science, Mumbai, India 1992
Bachelor of Science, Major in Human Development