Marina Basu
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Mail code: 5411Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentLearning, Literacies and Technologies
MaryLouFulton Teachers College
Marina Basu is a doctoral candidate at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC), Arizona State University. With a background in teaching and teacher education in non-traditional settings, including a Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI) school, Marina has rich experiences in creative and integrated curriculum and pedagogy. For her Fulbright project, Marina explored ways to enhance mathematical thinking among English Language Learners. She was the lead editor of Current Issues in Education, an international open access journal published by MLFTC, and taught math methods for elementary preservice teachers. Her current research focuses on creativity in education, mathematics teacher education, arts-based approaches to inquiry, and non-Western educational and research paradigms.
M. A. (Education, Philosophy), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Fulbright Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Book Chapters
Koro, M., Basu, M. and Long, C. (2023) Rethinking evaluation of research from feminist perspectives. In K. Saija, E. Bell, and S. Meriläinen (Eds), Handbook of feminist methodologies in management and organization studies, pp. 315-326. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Basu, M. (2022) “Why Weren’t we Taught Like This?” Introducing Creative Strategies to Indian Teachers. In Curtis J. Bonk and Meina Zhu (Ed) Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Sustainability, Technology Integration, and Other Innovative Pedagogies. Routledge.
Koro, M., Carlson, D. L., Basu, M., and Tsotniashvili, K. (2022). Ontologies of relation and difference in “research designs.” In U. Flick (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design. London: SAGE
Basu, M. (2021). Krishnamurti’s Insights for Global Childhood Education and Research. In N. Yelland, N. Fairchild, L. Peters, M. Tesar, & M. S. Perez (Eds.) SAGE Handbook of Global Childhoods.
Koro, M., Basu, M., Sandoval, J., Vasquez, A. & Grant, B. (2020). Interludes. In T. Wells, D. Carlson & M. Koro (Eds.), Intra-Public Intellectualism: Critical Qualitative Inquiry in the Academy. Myers Education Press.
Banerjee, M. and Basu, M. (2014). Women and Education in India: A Case for Social Change. In Bagchi, S. (Ed.) Beyond the Private World: Indian Women in the Public Sphere (pp. 207-223). Delhi: Primus Books.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Basu, M., & Palandjian, G. (2024). Writing Qualitatively: Crossing Borders, Claiming the Margins. International Review of Qualitative Research, 0(0). https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1177/19408447241243322
Mishra, P. & Basu, M. (2023). Jiddu Krishnamurti and John Dewey in the metaverse: Education and experience in an age of virtuality. Journal on Innovations in Education, 1(1), 60-72.
Anderson, R. C., Beghetto, R. A., Glaveanu, V., & Basu, M. (2023). Is curiosity killed by the CAT? A divergent, open-ended, and generative approach to creativity assessment. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2157588
Vasquez, A. M., Wells, T. C., Basu, M., & Johnson, G. L. (2022). From Technique to Technicity: Non-Methodological Explorations of Chairs, Neurodiversity, and Schooling. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.5147
Basu, M., Koellner, K., Jacobs, J. K., & Seago, N. (2022). Understanding similarity through dilations of non-standard shapes. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Pre-K-12, 115(9), 642-649. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2021.0284
Basu, M. & Beghetto, R. (2021). Technology as Social-Material Mediator: From Primary to Secondary Creativity and Beyond. Creativity: Theories – Research – Applications, 8(1) 11-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2021-0002
Basu, M. (2021). ‘This Wave in the Mind’: Resonant Becomings in Reading-Writing Inquiry. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086211010497
Basu, M. (2015). “Playing with Numbers or Delving into History? Thinking Mathematically in Junior School” in Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools (19), pp. 78-85. Also available online at: http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-19/playing-with-numbers-or-delving-into-history-thinking-mathematically-at-junior-school
Basu, M. & Jayaram, N. (2013). “The Subject of Art” in Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools (17), pp. 34-38. Also available online at: http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-17/the-subject-of-art
Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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RDG 291 | Children's Literature |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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EED 412 | Mathematics in Elem Schools |
SPE 410 | Mathematics in Elem Schools |