College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Bhaskar Upadhyay

  • Pronouns: he, him, his

  • Professor; Director of Graduate Studies; Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

  • Office Hours

    by appointment

Bhaskar Upadhyay

Areas of interest

  • Internationalization of STEAM education and Indigenous education
  • P-16 STEAM education, teacher education, inclusive, research ethics
  • Primary-16 and higher education, (in)formal education, underrepresentation
Degrees

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Biography

As a former science teacher and teacher educator in Nepal, I am interested in researching and teaching areas surrounding the internationalization/globalization of STE(A)M education, Indigenous education, educational inclusivity, and equity.  In my research, I not only investigate curriculum, pedagogies, policies, local environment, and community engagements but also seek to understand how people’s experiences and the needs of the communities (community-driven) inform what takes place in the larger fields of education and more specifically in STE(A)M education for sustainable development. 

I believe in collaborative work across the education fields through research and exchange partnerships among scholars globally. However, my focus is critically examining internationalizing STE(A)M education, Indigenous education, research ethics, teacher education, cultural heritage and STE(A)M education, research capacity building among young researchers, and investigating the challenges and opportunities for inclusive education from primary to higher education utilizing various qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods designs.

My ongoing research collaborations are with scholars in the USA, India, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Taiwan.

Courses Taught (Selected)

OLPD 5124 Critical Issues in International Education
OLPD 8015 Inquiry Strategies
OLPD 8101 International Education and Development
OLPD 8812 Quantitative Design in Education

Publications

Upadhyay, B. & Sadykova, S. (2024). Building Science Teacher Leaders for IndigenousSchools: Lessons From a Science Professional Development Workshop in Nepal. Education Sciences, 14 (9), 964-990.

Upadhyay, B. & Aleixo, M. B. (2023). Community-Initiated Science for Transformative Teaching. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 34(5), 443-457.

King, N. & Upadhyay, B. (2022). Negotiating Mentoring Relationships and Supports for Black and Brown Early Career Faculty. Science Education, 106(5), 1149-1171. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21755

Barksdale, S., Upadhyay, B. & Vernon, M. (2021). Teacher professional development in Nepal: Mobile and limited technology-enhanced pedagogy. International Journal of Technology in Education and Science (IJTES), 5(4), 486-511.

Cadieux, K.V., Carpenter, S., Blumberg, R., Liebman, A., & Upadhyay, B. (2019). Reparation Ecologies: Regimes of Repair in Populist Agroecology. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109, 644-660.

Albrecht, N. & Upadhyay, B. (2018). What do refugee mothers want in U.S. school science: Learning from the perceptions of science of three Somali mothers. The Urban Review, 50, 604-629.

Upadhyay, B.; Maruyama, G. & Albrecht, N. (2017). Taking an active stance: How urban elementary students connect sociocultural experiences in learning science. International Journal of Science Education, 39, 2528-2547.

Maruyama, G., Jones, R., Adams, M., Upadhyay, B. (2014). Including Communities in Urban University-School Partnerships. Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 7, 364-379.

Upadhyay, B. R. (2006). Using students’ lived experiences in an urban science classroom: An elementary school teacher’s thinking. Science Education, 90 (1), 94-110.

Books

Aghasaleh, R., Tolbert, S., Scantelbury, K. & Upadhyay, B. (Eds.) (in press, expected 2025). Phronetic Science: Morally Guided and Praxis-oriented Science Education. Peter Lang.

Upadhyay, B.R. (Eds.) (1996). General school science (Part 6). Sahitya Prakashan.

Upadhyay, B.R. (1991). Complete school physics with astronomy for classes IX & X. S. Prasad & Co.