Shipra Suneja
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Child development
- Care and inquiry perspectives
- Curriculum in early years
- Ethnographic methods in studying childhoods in contexts
Biography
Shipra Suneja is Associate Professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. She teaches courses in Early Childhood Care and Education and Child Development. Besides this, she has been involved in curriculum development and teacher education in ECCE with government and non-profit organisations. She did her PhD from Delhi University studying children’s experiences of their ecology and construction of caring relationships with an especial focus on sibling relationships.
Her research interests include care and inquiry perspectives in early years education, Curriculum in early years and ethnographic methods in studying childhoods in contexts.
Child Development, Care and inquiry perspectives in early years education, Curriculum in early years and ethnographic methods in studying childhoods in contexts.
Courses
Child Development and Learning
Study how children learn and develop within school contexts.
Early Childhood Education: Policies, Principles and Practices
Early Childhood Education (ECE) is the teaching of children of ages up to eight years.
Curriculum and Pedagogy in Early Years II
A course to bring your knowledge of child development and curriculum studies to understand the linkages between theories of development, children’s developmental trajectory in early years and pedagogy with reference to early years of a child’s education.
Curriculum and Pedagogy in Early Years I
A course bringing knowledge of child development and curriculum studies to understand the linkages between theories of development, children’s developmental trajectory in early years and pedagogy with reference to early years of a child’s education.
Publications
Chapter in Edited Book
- Suneja, S., & Sharma, B. (2017). Children finding their ways through life spaces: Glimpses from the Indian ecology. In N. Chaudhary, P. Hviid, G. Marsico, & Villadsen, J. (Eds.), Resistance in Everyday Life (pp. 65 – 77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978 – 981-10 – 3581-4_6
Journal Article
- Suneja, S., Chaudary, N., & Sharma, B. (2015). Children as carers for their siblings in Indian families: Using dialogical self theory to examine children’s narratives. International Journal of Dialogical Sciences, 9(1), 97 – 114. https://ijds.lemoyne.edu/journal/9_1/pdf/IJDS.9.1.05.Suneja.pdf