Kremen School of Education and Human Development

Rohit Mehta

Associate Professor

Curriculum and Instruction | 559.278.0227 | Office: ED235

mehta@csufresno.edu

Education

2017: Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, Michigan State University

2010:  Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida

2008:  Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, the University of Technology of Madhya Pradesh

Courses Taught

  • Practitioner Inquiry
  • Action Research
  • Social Justice in the Multicultural Classroom
  • Adolescent Learning and Development
  • Advanced Educational Psychology
  • Advanced Curriculum Theory and Analysis
  • Writing in Academia
  • Dissertation Writing Seminar
  • Advanced Educational Research and Measurement
  • Crosscultural Theory
At previous institutions:
  • Toying with Technology
  • Creativity in Teaching and Learning
  • Technology and Leadership
  • Design Thinking
  • Reflections on Learning
  • Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

Dr. Rohit Mehta is an Associate Professor of Secondary Curriculum with Instructional Technology in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Mehta teaches a range of topics such as adolescent learning & development, advance educational research and measurement, cross-cultural theory, practitioner resaerch, academic writing. He teachers across programs such as teacher credential, MA in Teaching, and Ed.D in Educational Leadership.  

His research interests are on the intersections of pedagogy, 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 Review of Research in Education (RRE), Qualitative Inquiry, 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). He has also co-led special issues in the Italian Journal of Educational Technology and the Journal of Creative Behavior. He published his first solo-authored book in 2025, titled "A critical educator's guide to pedagogy: nonduality and education in a technology-saturated world," which addresses key educational psychology concepts from a nondual perspective for teachers. 

Dr. Mehta was Enhancement of Global Understanding fellow to the Netherlands (2016), Inside Teaching fellow (2016), and Residential College at Arts and Humanities fellow for Hindi Integrated Language Option (2015-2016) at Michigan State University. Before coming into educational research and practice, he garnered transdisciplinary experiences ranging from electronics engineering to film editing. He is continually working on a transmedia art project to explore art-based methodologies of decolonial expression. 
  • 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. (2025). A critical educator's guide to pedagogy: nonduality and education in a technology-saturated world. Kendall Hunt. 
  • Mehta, R., Creely, E., Henriksen, D., Henderson, M. and Crawford, R. (2025), Beyond Western Notions of Creativity in Education: Toward a Trans-Epistemological Approach. Journal of Creative Behavior, 59: e1503. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1503
  • Keenan-Lechel, S. F., Warr, M., Richardson, C., Mishra, P., Mehta, R., Henriksen, D., & Gruber, N. (2023). A decade of rethinking creativity, technology and learning: Reflections with the Deep-Play Research Group. TechTrends, 67(1), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00817-7
  • Heath, M., Gleason, B., Mehta, R. & Hall, T. (2023). More than knowing: toward collective, critical, and ecological approaches in educational technology research. Educational Technology Research and Development.(online first) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10242-z
  • Mehta, R. & Henriksen, D. (2022). To democratize, first decolonize: Approaches beyond eurocentric and colonial epistemologies in creativity. Review of Research in Education, 46(1), 105-133. 
  • Henriksen, D., Creely, E., & Mehta, R. (2022). Rethinking the Politics of Creativity: Posthumanism, Indigeneity, and Creativity Beyond the Western Anthropocene. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004211065813
  • Mehta, R., Henriksen, D., Mishra, P. & Gruber, N. (2022). Exploring Organizational Creativity and Mindfulness with Ravi S. Kudesia. TechTrends (online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00787-w
  • Mehta, R., Henriksen, D., Richardson, C., Gruber, N., & Mishra, P. (2022). Creativity & the Mindful Wanderings of Dr. Jonathan Schooler. TechTrends, 66(4), 571–577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00747-4
  • Richardson, C., Henriksen, D., Mehta, R. & Mishra, P. (2022) Seeing things in the here and now: Exploring mindfulness and creativity with Viviana Capurso. TechTrends, 66(3), 394-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00722-z
  • Gleason, B., & Mehta, R. (2022). A pedagogy of care: Critical humanizing approaches to teaching and learning with technology. Italian Journal of Educational Technology. Advance Online Publication. 1-16. doi: 10.17471/2499-4324/1278
  • Mehta, R., & Gleason, B. (2021). Against empathy: moving beyond colonizing practices in educational technology. Educational Technology Research and Development, (online). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09901-2
  • 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. 
  • Mehta, R., Henriksen, D., & Deep-Play Research Group. (2019). An Embodied, Dialogic Endeavor: Towards a Posthumanizing Approach to Creativity with Dr. Kerry Chappell. TechTrends, 63(1), 6-12.
  • 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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