Joseph Valente
Joseph Valente
jmv15@psu.edu
Early Childhood Education
Joseph M. Valente, Ph.D. (Arizona State University)
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education.
Dr. Valente's research interests include childhood studies, comparative and international education, educational anthropology, Deaf studies, and Disability studies. He is the author of the autobiographical-novel and autoethnography d/Deaf and d/Dumb: A Portrait of a Deaf Kid as a Young Superhero published by Peter Lang. Currently Dr. Valente is the co-Principal Investigator of the video ethnography project "Kindergartens for the Deaf in Three Countries: Japan, France, and the United States," funded by the Spencer Foundation. To learn more about his work, please see http://joevalente.net.

