Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Stephen F. Austin State University
About
Flora Farago is an associate professor of human development and family studies at Stephen F. Austin State University with a background in developmental psychology. Her teaching and research interests center around gender and ethnic-racial socialization in children, prejudice and stereotype development, and anti-bias education. Dr. Farago is particularly interested in the link between research and community activism. She collaborates with organizations including the Girl Child Network in Kenya.
Current Work:
Dr. Farago researches how adults navigate conversations around race and gender with children. Dr. Farago has completed projects on ethnic-racial and gender socialization in early care settings, on Ugandan children's gender-role attitudes and gender stereotypes, and on anti-bias curricular pedagogies in early care settings. Dr. Farago uses mixed-methods and is committed to taking research beyond the walls of academia via scholar-activism and community-participatory research approaches.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Anti-bias, race, gender, early childhood, East Africa
