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Alina Slapac
Alina Slapac
is an Associate Professor of action research, curriculum and instruction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). Her research interests include teacher preparation and development with focus on global and multicultural education, (participatory) action research, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, collaborative online international learning, and transformative pedagogy. She has been collaborating with educators from China, Norway, Romania, Spain, South Africa, South Korea and USA on research and teaching. Dr. Slapac has been an UMSL Global Fellow and an UMSL Inquiry Circles Fellow on global competency. Her two co-edited books are Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning through Action Research (Slapac, Balcerzak & O’Brien, 2021) and Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators (Slapac & Coppersmith, 2019) (IGI Global). Her articles have been published in Journal of Research on Childhood Education, Educational Studies, Kappa Delta Pi Record, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, and Teacher Education and Practice, among others. She also published several book chapters in co-edited books, such as: Social Justice and Culturally-Affirming Education in K-12 Settings; At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers; Research Anthology on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning; International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education; Intercultural Responsiveness in the Second Language Learning Classroom and Designing Socially Just Learning Communities: Linking Literacy Learning across the Lifespan. She is currently working on a new co-edited book (with Dr. Cristina Huertas-Abril) on global education and teacher development through telecollaboration.
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