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Carin Appleget, PhD, serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Education within Creighton University's College of Arts and Sciences. With over twenty years of classroom experience transitioning from elementary teaching to teacher preparation, she focuses on developing impactful educators through rigorous academic training and hands-on learning methodologies.
Her research examines literacy instruction through multiple critical lenses including culturally proactive pedagogy, technology integration, and critical whiteness studies. Key interests span preservice teacher development (particularly teachers of color), asset-based language frameworks, and digital collaboration models that transform traditional literacy methods. This work directly informs her teaching in Elementary Teaching (MA) and Early Childhood Education programs.
Recent publications analyze how digital spaces facilitate preservice teacher collaboration and co-construction of knowledge, while investigating frameworks for implementing culturally proactive approaches in literacy methods courses. Her scholarship bridges theoretical foundations with practical classroom applications across P-12 settings.
Appleget actively mentors emerging educators through structured advising relationships and professional development sessions like her 2021 literacy instruction workshop for St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic School. Outside academia, she balances family life with husband Andrew and their children through outdoor jogs, movies, and beach vacations.
