Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at New York University
About
Fabienne Doucet is an associate professor of early childhood education and program leader for the programs in childhood education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, Institute for Human Development and Social Change, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Born in Spain, raised in Haiti, and migrating to the US at the age of ten, Doucet embodies a hybrid identity that is mirrored in her interdisciplinary approach to examining how immigrant and US-born children of color and their families navigate education in the United States. Doucet has a PhD in human development and family studies from the UNC-Greensboro and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation.
Current Work:
Doucet is currently writing a guidebook on how early childhood educators can build authentic relationships with the families they serve. In collaboration with Mariana Souto-Manning (Teachers College, Columbia University), she is undertaking a study of culturally relevant play in pre-kindergarten classrooms in New York City.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Family-School Relationships, Immigrant Children and Families, Children and Families of Color, Ethnography, Qualitative Research
