About

Ayesha Rabadi-Raol

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Early Childhood Teacher Education from Teachers College Columbia University. New York.
Assistant Professor at Sonoma State University, Department of Early Childhood Studies, California.

Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, is an experienced Early Childhood Educator and Teacher Educator. She has taught at a child development center in Mumbai for 14 years and for 4 years as a doctoral research fellow at Columbia University, New York. She has also taught masters level courses at Teachers College in the Early Childhood Education Program.

Rabadi-Raol’s research focuses on equity and justice in early childhood teaching and teacher education. Critically examining pedagogies of power and privilege and how they are enacted in and through early childhood education and teacher education, she believes in amplifying the stories of young children and their teachers.

Rabadi-Raol’s interests include storytelling and its benefits for young children, the importance of play in early childhood, observation as assessment, developing engaging environments in early childhood classrooms, multicultural education, critical inquiry, project-based learning, and teacher education and development.