Creativists in Dialogue talks with Shalinee Gusain.
Shalinee is an early childhood educator, a parent, and a lifelong learner. She is fluent in English, Hindi, and Telugu and is currently learning Spanish. After earning her Ph.D., she moved from India to DC in 2007. Ever since then, she has worked tirelessly in education as a parent volunteer, a gardening teacher, an environmental science educator, and is now working in a SPED (special education) classroom.
In 2003 at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, Shalinee published her dissertation, ”Feminist Contributions to Indian Sociology: A Study of Select Texts.”
Her scholarship drew from the works of historian Tanika Sarkar, as well as eco-feminist Vandana Shiva and anthropologist Leela Dubey. Shalinee attributes her learning to the University of Michigan social psychologist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), as well as educational thinker Eric Erickson’s developmental stages and Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theories.
As a teacher, she strives to create healthy socio-emotional settings that foster learning experiences for the whole child, while still bringing her own experiences to the classroom and the community.
To find out more about Shalinee, click here.
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