Smita Guha, Ph.D.

Dr. Smita Guha received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a Full Professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University. Her research is on math, science and technology in childhood and early childhood education. She has written three books titled, Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders: How Parents and Educators Can Influence and Guide the Learning Process; Healthy Children: How Parents and Teachers Can Help To Prevent Obesity and Teacher as Researcher. Additionally, she has been published in peer reviewed scholarly Journals as Young Children, Childhood Education, Science and Children, Teaching Children Mathematics, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Information Technology in Childhood Education, Journal of Educational Computing Research, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, International Journal of Early Years Education and TechTrends. She has presented at numerous national, international, state and local conferences including AERA, NAEYC and ACEI. She has 10 years' experience working directly with young children and 20 years of experience in teacher education. She has been involved with professional development for teachers in public schools in New York. She also was involved in Travel Abroad Program taking a group of teachers to Italy and France to enrich their learning experiences.STEM focus teacher educationBased on theory and practice, my research agenda focuses on math, and science in childhood and early childhood education focusing on Teacher Education

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