The International and Comparative Education (ICEd) Program is proud to welcome and to celebrate our new faculty of 2023: Dr. Prem Phyak, Dr. Manuel Cardoso, and Dr. Daniela Romero-Amaya!
Dr. Prem Phyak
Dr. Phyak will be joining us as an Associate Professor.
My research broadly covers the interplay between language, education, and society from international and comparative perspectives. I build on critical and decolonial theories to investigate language policy, indigenous languages and literacies, language ideology, multilingualism and translingualism, development discourses/policies, higher education policies and practices, teacher education, and social justice in education and other spaces. I use engaged methodological approaches such as critical and engaged ethnography, participatory action research, and Indigenous methodologies to collaborate with communities, teachers/schools, youths, NGOs/INGOs, and policy-makers to unpack local and global ideologies, power relations, and inequalities/injustices and design and execute activities toward building just and equitable educational policies and practices. Previously, Prem was an assistant professor and associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tribhuvan University, Nepal, respectively.
Dr. Phyak's educational background includes:
PhD., Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
M.A., TESOL, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
Graduate Certificate, Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
M.Ed., Language Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
B.Ed., Language Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
You can contact him at pbp2117@tc.columbia.edu.
Dr. Phyak will be teaching the following course in the Fall:
- ITSF 4580: International and Comparative Education and Development Studies I
Dr. Daniela Romero-Amaya
Dr. Romero-Amaya will be joining us as a Lecturer.
Dr. Daniela Romero-Amaya is a Lecturer in the International and Comparative Education program. Her scholarly work relates to history and citizenship education in conflict-affected contexts, with emphasis on the interplay between education and transitional justice measures. Her research engages with youth perspectives and decision-making concerning the legacies of systematic violence and their daily navigation of social life. She is currently undertaking a visual methods study exploring students’ understandings of "victims” and “victimhood” in Colombia. This study analyzes how the politics of victimhood expand the horizon of the judicial to also encompass a pedagogical dimension regarding the armed conflict and its transformation. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with a Ph.D. in Social Studies Education, a MA in International and Comparative Education, and a BA in History.
You can contact her at mdr2153@tc.columbia.edu.
Dr. Romero-Amaya will be teaching the following courses in the Fall:
- ITSF 4009: Introduction to Research Methods in International and Comparative Education
- ITSF 4613: International Perspectives on Citizenship and Human Rights Education
Dr. Manuel Cardoso
Dr. Cardoso will be joining us as a Lecturer.
Dr. Manuel Enrique Cardoso was a learning specialist at the UN system for nearly two decades, first at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montréal, and then at UNICEF’s headquarters in New York. Previously he worked for Uruguay’s national assessment system while teaching at two universities. He is returning to TC, this time as faculty, from his position as Coordinator of Learning Assessment Programs at the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. His work has been published in Comparative Education Review, the International Review of Education, and Compare, among others. His research interests include international organizations; large-scale assessments, both national and international; their links with education policy; and language(s) in education.
Dr. Cardoso’s educational background includes:
Ph.D., Comparative and International Education, Teachers College/Columbia
Ed.M., International Education Policy, Harvard University
B.A., Sociology, UDELAR, Uruguay
You can contact Manuel at mec2252@tc.columbia.edu.
Dr. Cardoso will be teaching the following courses in the Fall:
- ITSF 4580: International Comparative Education & Development Studies, Part I
- ITSF 5035: Social Analysis of International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs)
Congratulations and welcome to our ICEd family!
— International and Comparative Education