Dr. Rohit Mehta (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Curriculum with
Instructional Technology in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Fresno State
University. Dr. Mehta teaches in the Single Subject Credential program, Curriculum
and Instruction, and Educational Leadership. His research interests are positioned
on the intersections of pedagogy, literacies, creativity, technology, and coloniality.
As an educator, Dr. Mehta wants to help teachers foster creativity through teaching
and learning practices that are liberatory of multiple ways of being, knowing, and
doing. His collaborations have been published in academic journals like Thinking Skills
and Creativity, Tech Trends, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE),
Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education (JDLTE), and Journal of Media Literacy
Education (JMLE).
- Creativity in Teaching and Learning
- Technology in Education
- Neoliberalism in Education
- Critical Literacies
- Teaching with Technology
- Humanizing Pedagogy
- Anti-colonial theory
- Decolonial praxis
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
Selected publications:
- Mehta, R., Henriksen, D. & Mishra, P. (2020) “Let children play!”: Connecting evolutionary psychology
and creativity with Peter Gray. TechTrends, 64(5), 684–689.
- Shelton, C., Aguilera, E., Gleason, B., & Mehta, R. (2020). Resisting dehumanizing assessments: Enacting critical humanizing pedagogies
in online teacher education. Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field, 125-128.
- Mehta, R. and Aguilera, E. (2020). A critical approach to humanizing pedagogies in online teaching and learning. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 37(3), 109-120.
- Henriksen, D., Mehta, R. & Rosenberg, J. (2019). Supporting a Creatively Focused Technology Fluent mindset
among educators: Survey results from a five-year inquiry into teachers’ confidence
in using technology. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 27(1), 63-95.
- Mehta, R., Henriksen, D. & Rosenberg, J. M. (2019). It’s not about the tools. Educational Leadership, 76(5), 64-69.
- Mehta, R. & Guzman, L. D. (2018). Fake or visual trickery? Quantitative visual rhetoric for
social media and media literacy. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 10(2), 104-122.
- Henriksen, D., Richardson, C., & Mehta, R. (2017). Design thinking: A creative approach to educational problems of practice. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 26, 140-153.
- Mishra, P. & Mehta, R. (2017). What we educators get wrong about 21st-century learning: Results of a survey. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 33(1), 6-19.
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