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Amber Brown

Amber Brown, Ed.D.

Program Director and Professor of Early Childhood Education,
College of Education

Contact number: 281-283-3627
Email: browna@uhcl.edu
Office: B1119-2

Biography

Amber L. Brown graduated from the University of North Texas with a doctorate degree in early childhood education. She is a former preschool and elementary teacher as well as a former preschool director.

In addition to many years of private and public-school experience, Dr. Brown teaches and studies play-based pedagogy training for early childhood educators, early childhood intervention, and the promotion of executive function skills at local as well as state and national conferences.

Areas of Expertise

  • Early Childhood Intervention Programs
  • Playful Pedagogy
  • Executive Function Development in Young Children
  • Family Engagement
  • Preservice Teacher Efficacy 

Publications

  • Brown, A. L., Collins, D., & Myers, J. (2021). How pre-service teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and preparedness to teach impact performance during student teaching. Educational Studies, 47(1), 38-58. doi: 10.1080/03055698.2019.1651696. (Published first online in 2019; https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ceds20.
  • Jain, P., & Brown, A. L. (2020). Using an adapted Lesson Study with early childhood undergraduate students. Teaching Education. doi: 10.1080/10476210.2020.1826424.
  • Brown, A. L., & Jain, P. (2020). Doing projects with young children in a field-based early childhood education course. Educational Studies. doi: 10.1080/03055698.2020.1798743.
  • Brown, A. L. (2019). Lessons learned from Head Start and HIPPY collaborations. NHSA Dialog: A Research-to-Practice Journal for the Early Childhood Field, 21(2), 96-102. Retrieved from https://journals.uncc.edu/dialog/article/view/802
  • Brown, A. L. & Lee, J. (2017). Evaluating the efficacy of children participating in HIPPY and in Head Start. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 15(1), 61-72. doi: 0.1177/1476718X15577006.(first published in 2015; http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ecr)
  • Brown, A. L. (2015). The impact of early intervention on the school readiness of children born to teenage mothers. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 13(2), 181-195.     doi: 10.1177/1476718X13479048
  • Brown, A. L., Lee, J., & Collins, D. (2015). Does student teaching matter? Investigating teacher candidates’ sense of teaching efficacy. Teaching Education, 26(1), 77-93.             doi: 10.1080/10476210.2014.957666
  • Brown, A. L. (2014). Implementing active learning into online teacher preparation courses. The American Journal of Distance Education, 28(3). doi: 10.1080/08923647. 2014.924695
  • Brown, A. L., & Lee, J. (2014). School performance in elementary, middle and high school: A comparison of children based on HIPPY participation during the preschool years. The School Community Journal, 24(2), 83-106. Retrieved from http://www.adi.org/journal/2014fw/BrownLeeFall2014.pdf
  • Brown, A. L., Harris, M. M., Jacobson, A. L., Trotti, J., & Nathans, L. (2014). Parent Teacher Education Connection: Preparing pre-service teachers for family engagement. The Teacher Educator, 49(2), 133-151. doi: 10.1080/ 08878730.2014.887169

Courses (Current Academic Year)

  • ECED 4302 Integrated Curriculum for Young Children 
  • ECED 4305 Literacy Development: Birth to Age 5 
  • ECED 4309 Advocacy and Parent Engagement 
  • ECED 4320 Play in Early Childhood Curriculum 
  • ECED 4323 Advanced Topics: Preschool Curriculum 
  • ECED 4325 Early Childhood Program Development & Management I 
  • ECED 4327 Early Childhood Program Development & Management II 
  • ECED 4329 Early Childhood Program Development & Management III 
  • ECED 4733 Early Childhood Education Practicum 
  • ECED 5032 Community Programs for Young Children 
  • ECED 5132 Literacy Development in Early Childhood
  • ECED 5231 Play and the Developing Child
  • ECED 5336 Administration and Management of Programs for Young Children I 
  • ECED 5337 Administration and Management of Programs for Young Children II 
  • ECED 6739 Early Childhood Education Practicum 
  • EDUC 6939 Thesis 
  • EDLS 8939 Dissertation 
  • EDLS 7036 Special Populations: Early Childhood Education (hybrid)

Research Projects

  • Playful Pedagogy in Early Childhood Teacher Education
  • Executive Function Development Programs for young children
  • HIPPY Early Childhood intervention program