معرفی
Dr. Sweta Patel is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at RMIT University's School of Education, specializing in culturally responsive pedagogy and immigrant educators' experiences. She holds a Doctorate and has extensive experience spanning India and Australia, including roles as a Kindergarten Teacher, Centre Director, and Vocational Education Trainer. Her research employs creative methodologies like visual storytelling to explore temporal and cultural dimensions of migration, particularly among early childhood professionals. She actively supervises postgraduate research and collaborates on initiatives like using film for suicide prevention advocacy.
Teaching focuses on bridging theory-practice gaps in early childhood education, currently coordinating RMIT's Graduate Diploma program. Research interests include digital literacy, well-being of educators, and temporality in migration narratives. She has published widely on immigrant educators' challenges, cross-cultural pedagogy, and AI applications in language learning.
Sweta advocates for epistemic justice in research, emphasizing participant empowerment through pseudonym choices and autoethnographic approaches. She is affiliated with RMIT’s Bundoora West campus and open to supervising Masters/PhD students in relevant fields.
