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Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education
 Natasha Cabrera, assistant professor, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland
Expertise - parent-child relationships, children's social and emotional development in different types of families and cultural/ethnic groups, school readiness, fatherhood, predictors of adaptative and maladaptive parenting, and translation of resesarch into practice and policy.
Credentials - edited the Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, with Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda. Before coming to Maryland, Cabrera was an expert in child development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. While there, she studied child care, welfare, fathers, and child development. She is currently working on a number of papers related to the effect a father has on his children in a low-income family and has written extensively about fathering and the implications of father involvement on child development.
Future research will look at the effects of father involvement as children transition from early childhood settings to elementary school. She plans to look at the involvement that parents, with a special attention to fathers, have with their children's school and their peers. She will also continue her work on understanding ethnic and racial differences among parents and their effects on child outcomes, by developing a project that looks at the change over time in father involvement among Latino fathers and the impact on children's outcomes.
Read More - Dad's Are Making a Difference This Father's Day (2007)
Contact - 301-405-2801 (office); ncabrera@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_cabrera.n.php
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Elisa Klein, professor, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland
Expertise - early childhood education; social policy related to young children, child care and education; children's understanding of school and other social contexts; applications of developmental theory to education; teacher beliefs about development; teacher education.
Credentials - the author of numerous articles looking at early childhood education including What do young children know about school? (Young Children) and How is a teacher different from a mother? Young children's perceptions of the social roles of significant adults (Theory Into Practice). Courses include "Teaching Strategies in Early Childhood."
Contact - 301-405-2827 (office); elklein@umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty_klein.e.php
Olivia Saracho, professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland
Expertise - early childhood education and teaching social values to young children; fathers and their role in a child's literacy development as well as home literacy for fathers of bilingual children.
Credentials - a former head start and elementary school teacher, Professor Saracho is the author of numerous articles about literacy, what part fathers play in helping their children learn to read and early childhood education. She has reseached the influence of home reading programs on a child's literacy development and how playtime can have an impact on a child's reading skills. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for Early Childhood Education Journal and Early Child Development and Care.
Contact - 301-405-3155 (office); ons@umd.edu
Web Site -
www.education.umd.edu/literacy/Home/Faculty/saracho.htm
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