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DOCTORAL STUDENT VITA

Ozge Ozel
Phone: 210 396 83 36
E-mail: ozgeozel@usf.mail.edu

Education:
Ph.D. 2013-2018 University of South Florida Florida/USA
- Department of Childhood Education and Literacy Studies / Early Childhood
Education
Master 2011-2013 University of Texas at San Antonio Texas/ USA
- Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching / Early Childhood Education
3.73/4 GPA
B.S 2005-2009 Mugla University Mugla/TURKEY
- Department of Education Faculty / Pre-School Teaching 3.18/4GPA

Research:

2016 The State of Technology: Linkages between Kindergarten Teachers

Career Stages and the Stages of Technology Adaption in Turkey. The aim of this study
was to explore the linkages between kindergarten teachers career stage and technology
adaption in Turkey.
2015 Seeing Civics through Visual Representations in U.S. and Ghanaian
Kindergarten Classrooms
2014 Childrens Cooperative Engagement: Exploring Their Interactions around
Multi-Touch Technology. The aim of the study is seeking answers of what is the nature of
young childrens cooperative engagement around multi-touch technology?
2013 Mexican-American children who have lost their Spanish language and
culture: Exploring their relationships with their Mexican, Spanish-speaking
grandmothers. The purpose of this study is to examine the communication issues and loss
of cultural capital that monolingual English-speaking Latino children face when they are
unable to communicate with their monolingual Spanish-speaking grandmothers due to
language loss.
2009 Childrens differences between students in rural and urban area: The aim of
this research to realize how the living conditions affect childrens social, physical and
mental developments. At the end of this research, an article was written.
2008 How should teachers apply drama in Preschools? For this study, I had
interviews with 10 preschool teachers who were selected randomly from same city. After
data was collected, it was presented publicly.
2007 Special Education Methods: I did research about autism and explained with
its treatments in class. While collecting data, I observed my students in the Special
Education Implementation School.

Service
2017 Served as a presenter for GLOCER
2016 Served as a presenter for NAEYC
2016 Served as a volunteer for NAEYC
2015 Served as a facilitator for the 3rd Annual COEDU inquiry Conference.
University of South Florida
2015 Served as a presenter for AREA
Awards /Certificates/ Seminars/ Honors:
2017 Best Paper Award is given for Examining Teachers Readiness for Using
Technology in ECE in Turkey at the Global Conference on Education and Research.
2012 Received a certificate for teaching diverse students from UTSA.
2009 Ministry of National Education Scholarship: A competitive scholarship that
covers all tuition and living costs during the graduate education in USA.
2005-2009 Prime Ministry Scholarship: The scholarship is given by Prime Ministry to
successful students that it covers living cost during the undergraduate education in
Turkey.
2009 Graduated as an Honor student with 3.18/ 4 GPA