Dr. Gupta has been in the field of early education for thirty years and has extensive cross-cultural experience with school administration, teacher education, and classroom teaching in urban schools in both India and the U.S.

She has been invited as a keynote/plenary speaker at international conferences at Slovakia, Denmark, Birmingham University (UK) and Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia; and to give talks at Slovakian Academy of Science, Syracuse University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Zhejiang University (China), National Institute of Education at Nanyang Tech University (Singapore), Delhi University (India), and the WISE 2014 - Qatar Foundation. As a Fulbright Researcher she has also collaborated with colleagues at University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and at the Maldives National University.

Prior to joining CUNY she was Associate Director of an early education school on the Upper West Side for ten years. Dr. Gupta serves as an early childhood consultant and on the Board of Directors for schools in both countries, and continues to offer culturally responsive professional development consultations in the areas of school leadership, teacher preparation, curriculum design and development for schools, institutions and organizations in India and the U.S.

Selected Publications
Books

Tan, G; Gupta, A. & Wilgus, G. (2019). Investment in Early Childhood Education in a Globalized World: Practices and Parental Philosophies in China, India and the United States. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gupta, A. (2014). Diverse Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices: Voices and Images from Five Countries in Asia. New York, NY: Routledge.

Gupta, A. (2013). Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory, Teaching Practices and Policies in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan (revised and expanded 2nd edition).

Gupta, A. (Ed.) (2007). Going to School in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Gupta, A. (2006). Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory and Teaching Practices in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan (1st edition).

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Gupta, A. (2019). Young children and their educational rights: Critical perspectives on policy and practice in India.  In Jane Murray, Beth Blue Swadener & Kylie Smith (Eds) Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights.

Gupta, A. & Lucia, B. (2017). School readiness in the context of inner city Head Start centers. Early Child Development & Care. Pp. 1-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2017.1367925

Gupta, A. (2017). Foreword. In Akpovo, Moram & Brookshire (Eds). Collaborative Cross-Cultural Research Methodologies in Early Care and Education Contexts. New York, NY: Routledge

Gupta, A. (2017). How neoliberal globalization is shaping early childhood education policies in India, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Policy Futures in Education. pp. 1-18.

Gupta, A. (2016). Policy Trends in Teacher Professionalization and Professionalism in India. In J. Fox, M. Li and S. Grieshaber (Eds). Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. New Frontiers of Educational Research Series. Springer.

Gupta, A. (2016). Progressive education in a Nursery/Kindergarten school in New York City: The Riverside Church Weekday School from 1930 to 2013. In S. Semel & A. Sadovnik (Eds): Schools of tomorrow, schools of today: What happened to progressive education. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Gupta, A. (2015). “Pedagogy of third space”: A multidimensional curriculum in early childhood.  Policy Futures in Education, 13(2), pp. 260–272.

Gupta, A. (2015). Using Postcolonial Theory to Critically Re-frame the Child Development Narrative. In Tricia David, Kathy Goouch, & Sasha Powell (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Philosophies and Theories of Early Childhood Education and Care. UK: Routledge

Blumenreich, M. & Gupta, A. (2015). The globalization of Teach for America: An analysis of the institutional discourses of Teach for America and Teach for India within local contexts. Teaching and Teacher Education, 48, 87-96.

Gupta, A. (2013). Play: Early Childhood Pedagogies and Policies in a Globalizing Asia. In Lillemyr, O.F., Dockett, S. & Perry, B. (Eds.) Varied Perspectives of play and learning: Theory and research on early years' education. Information Age Publishing Inc.

Gupta, A. (2013). Incorporating teacher candidates' prior beliefs and funds of knowledge in teaching about child development. In G. Wilgus (Ed.) Knowledge, pedagogy and post-multiculturalism:  Shifting the locus of learning in urban teacher education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-128.

Gupta, A. (2012). Neoliberal globalization and pre-primary teacher education policy and practice in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. In D. Kapoor, B. Barua & A. Datoo (Eds.) Globalization, Culture and Education in South Asia: Critical Excursions. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan., pp. 103-121.

Gupta, A. (2011). Play and pedagogy framed within India's historical, socio-cultural and pedagogical context. In S. Rogers (Ed.) Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education: Concepts, Contexts and Cultures. Oxford, UK: Routledge, pp. 86-99.

Gupta, A. (2007). Introduction: culture, curriculum, and points of intersection. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Gupta, A. (2007). Going to school in India. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Latheef, M. & Gupta, A. (2007). Going to school in Maldives. In A. Gupta (Ed.) Going to school in South Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Gupta, A. (2009). Vygotskian perspectives to enhance children's development and balance creativity with structure in the early childhood classroom. Early Child Development and Care. 179(8), 1041-1054.

Gupta, A. (2008). Tracing global-local transitions within early childhood curriculum and practice in India. Research in Comparative and International Education. 3(3), pp. 266-279.

Gupta, A. (2006). Early experiences and funds of knowledge and beliefs of immigrant and minority teacher candidates dialog with theories of child development in a teacher education classroom. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 27(1), 3-18.

Gupta, A. (2004). The challenge of working with large class size: Dispositions of early childhood teachers in India. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 5(3), 361-377.

Gupta, A.  (2003). Socio-cultural-historical constructivism in the preparation and practice of early childhood teachers in New Delhi, India. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education.  24(3), 163-170.

Gupta, A. (2001). Implementing Change at the Pre-Primary level in a School in India. International Journal of Early Childhood.  33(1), 34-42.