Sarita Shukla, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Kentucky
Courses
- BEDUC 210 Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society
- BEDUC 295 Gathering, Analyzing and Using Data
- BEDUC 300 Research and Educational Knowledge
- BEDUC 310 Theories of Learning, Culture, and Identity
- BEDUC 399 Introduction to the Capstone
- BEDUC 495 Applied Experiences
- BEDUC 499 Capstone Project
Teaching Interests
Dr. Shukla is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell where she integrates teaching, researcher, and service in her academic work. Deeply committed to pedagogy, she teaches courses in statistics, learning and identity, multicultural education, and the culminating capstone experience for undergraduate students.
Research and Scholarship Interests
As a transnational scholar, Dr. Shukla studies the psychosocial and cultural influences on student motivation and learning in culturally diverse societies, with a growing interest in researching and applying digital tools to support equitable and meaningful learning. Her teaching and research are grounded in socio-constructivist and equity-focused perspectives. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Contemporary Educational Psychology, CBE-Life Sciences Education, and the Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology.
Creative Interests
Use of Digital Tools; Digital storytelling; Multimodal Representations; Reflective Writing; Liquid Syllabus; Designing Interactive Learning Modules
- Shukla, S. Y., Thompson, F., & Shear, S. B. (2025). Commitments to doing differently: Paradigm shifts necessary for critical educational psychology research. Contemporary Educational Psychology.
- Nicolai, K. D., Talib, T. L., Jackman-Ryan, S., Boyd, N. L., Zengilowski, A., Shukla, S. Y., & Chen, J. (2025). An anti-colonial approach to deconstructing and reconstructing educational psychology theories. Contemporary Educational Psychology .
- Shukla, S. Y., Theobald, E., Abraham, J. K., & Price, R. M. (2022). Reframing educational outcomes: Moving beyond achievement gaps. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 21(2).
- Kumar, R., & Shukla, S. Y. (2021). Growing up Asian-Indian in the United States: Adolescents’ and youth’s identity development and psychosocial adaptation. In Babu, N., Upadhyay, I. & Prakash, A. (Eds.) Vulnerability and resilience during adolescence. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
- Kumar, R., & Shukla, S. Y. (2019). The Asian-Indian Hindu immigrant adolescents’ experiences of home-school cultural dissonance and achievement motivation: Do parenting practices matter? In G. F. Liem & S. H. Tan (Eds.) Asian education miracles: In search of sociocultural and psychological explanations. London, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Shukla, S. Y., Tombari, A. K., Toland, M. D., & Danner, F. W. (2015). At-home parental support for learning and high school students’ academic motivation and persistence in mathematics. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 5(1).
- Shukla, S. Y. (2015). Review of How Children Succeed. (Review of the book How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character.) Journal of Educational Controversy, 9(1).