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Alina Slapac, Ed.D. (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Missouri Saint Louis

Alina Slapac is an Associate Professor of action research, and curriculum and instruction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). Her research interests include teacher preparation and development with focus on global and multicultural education, (participatory) action research, collaborative online international learning (COIL), culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, and transformative pedagogy. She has been collaborating with educators from China, Norway, Romania, Spain, South Africa, South Korea and USA on research and teaching. Dr. Slapac has been an UMSL Global Fellow, an UMSL Inquiry Circles Fellow on global competency and a member of the AACTE Global Education PLC. She published two co-edited books: Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning through Action Research (Slapac, Balcerzak & O’Brien, 2021) and Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators (Slapac & Coppersmith, 2019) (IGI Global). Her articles have been published in Journal of Research on Childhood Education, Educational Studies, Kappa Delta Pi Record, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, and Teacher Education and Practice, among others. She also published several book chapters in co-edited books, such as: Social Justice and Culturally-Affirming Education in K-12 Settings; At School in the World: Developing Globally Engaged Teachers; Research Anthology on Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning; International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education; Intercultural Responsiveness in the Second Language Learning Classroom. Currently, she is working on a third co-edited book, Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Telecollaboration in Global Teacher Education in collaboration with Dr. Cristina Huertas-Abril (to be published in 2024).

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