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Associate Professor of Education
Individualized Liberal & Professional Studies
Scholarly Publications &
Presentations
- Integral Knowledge Systems at AUM: Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga on a Western Campus - Proposed paper and presentation at WAVES 2006, University of Houston, Texas, July 8-10, 2006.
- Integrating the ‘Other’ in Adult Education: Explorations in Diversifying and Globalizing the Curriculum - Proposed paper and presentation (with Linda Zeigahn) at AERC 2006, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 19-21, 2006.
- Learning by Doing: Some preliminary reflections of an online educator. Research and Practice in Social Sciences, 1(1, August 2005), 4-23.
- A Dialogic Exploration into the Construction and Transcendence of Socio-cultural Identities: From Academic Conversations to Program Development (with Susanne Fest) Paper accepted for presentation at the annual conference of SIETAR-USA, November 10-12, 2005.
- A journey of self: Knowing and Being, the Integral Way. Presentation made for the AUM Faculty Assembly, June 8, 2005.
- M(e)-Listening: Listening to the Silence too! Presentation made at the Antioch University E-learning conference, Yellow Springs, May 14-15, 2005.
- Individualized and Collaborative Learning: Towards Integral Studies Curriculum at AUM. Paper presented at International Conference on Indian Psychology, Yoga and Consciousness, Pondicherry, India, December 10-13, 2004
- Truth
vs. Tabloid: An Analysis of Dowry. Presented
at the Fifth World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES)
Conference, Maryland, July 9-11, 2004.
- Vasudhaiv
Kutumbakam: Dialogue between Civilizations in the
Age of Globalization. Indian Integral Studies in
ILPS: A Conceptual Framework. Presented
at International Seminar on Integral Psychology,
Pondicherry, India, June 26-27, 2004.
- Multiple
and Shifting Identities: Asian Indian Families
in the United States (2003). In
C. C. Park, A. L. Goodwin, S. J. Lee (Eds.) Asian
American Identities, Families and Schooling (pp.
27-54). Information Age Publishing.
- Recognizing,
Respecting, and Representing: Three R’s of Asian
Indian Cultural Identity in American Schools (2003).
Paper presented at AERA Annual Meeting, April 21-25,
2003.
- Teacher
Autobiographies: Personal
Narratives, Professional Rewards (2003). (With
Dawn Quigley and Maureen Clark). Panel presentation
at AERA Annual Meeting, April 21-25, 2003.
- Keeping
the Students Engaged in an Online Classroom.
Paper presented at the SOCHE Conference, “Student
Success and Retention” Friday, March 21, 2003.
- "Partly
Indian, Partly American":
Social and Cultural Integration of Asian Indian Parents
and Children in the United States (2002).
Paper presented at the annual meeting of American
Educational Research Association, New Orleans,
April 1-5, 2002.
- Order from Chaos: The Creative
Process in a Children's Theatrical Production (2002)
(with Karen Weaver). Paper presented at the annual
meeting of American Educational Research Association,
New Orleans, April 1-5, 2002.
- Teaching Online
and Teaching Adults: Issues of Course Design,
Academic Quality, and Community Building (2002)
(with Karen Crist). Paper presented at the annual conference
of Ohio Learning Network, Columbus, March 4-5,
2002. Paper available at http://www.oln.org/conferences/oln2002/pdf/Antioch.pdf
- Democracy
and Global Citizenship: Finding My Non-citizen
Voice (2002). Paper presented
at a session titled "Identifying causes, exploring
dilemmas, framing issues and promoting constructive
dialogue" at the SOCHE Faculty Retreat, Dayton,
March 1, 2002.
- Research or Personal Quest?:
Dilemmas in Studying My Own Kind. (2001). Chapter
in the book, Multiple and Intersecting Identities
in Qualitative Research, edited by Betty Merchant and
Arlette Willis, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
- Going
to school in America as Asian Indians: Policy and
practice. (1997).
Darpan, the literary magazine of Indian Students
Association, UIUC.
- Worlds Apart No More: Bringing
Asian Families and Schools Together (1997). Presented
at the 1997 Annual Meeting of University Council
of Education Administration (UCEA), Orlando, October
31-November 2, 1997.
- Parents and Their Cultural
Model of Schooling: Case of Asian Indians (1997). Presented
at the 1997 Annual Meeting of American Educational
Research Association (AERA), Chicago, March 24-28,
1997.
- Research, Teaching and Service
in the Academy (1997). (with Betty Merchant,
Pardip Bolina, and Allan Goody). Seminar presented
under the Scholar Adventurer’s Series, UIUC
Campus Honors Program, April 8, 1997.
- Cultural Model of Schooling:
Asian Indian Experience. (1996). Darpan, the
literary magazine of Indian Student Association,
UIUC.
- "Their" Stories, "My"
Reflections: Issues of Subjectivity in Qualitative Research
(1996). Presented at the Qualitative Methodologies
in Music Education Conference II, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, May 16-18, 1996.
- Parents’ Cultural
Model of Schooling: Case of Asian Indians. A doctoral
research agenda (1996). Presented at the 17th
annual UCEA National Graduate Student Research Seminar,
New York, April 12-13, 1996.
- "I like school here...":
Experiences of three Asian Indian Children in a
Multicultural Elementary School (1996). Presented
at the 1996 Annual Meeting of American Educational
Research Association (AERA), New York, April 8-12,
1996.
- Research or Personal Quest?:
Dilemmas in Studying My Own Kind (1996). Presented
at the 1996 Annual Meeting of American Educational
Research Association (AERA), at New York, April
8-12, 1996.
- Teenage, Mexican, Non-English-Speaking
and Enrolled in a Rural Midwestern High School (1995). (with
Betty Merchant, E. Cisneros, and M. Zurita). Seminar
presented at Bureau of Educational Research, UIUC.
- The
Effects of Education on Crime and Drug-use. (1993).
(with W. W. McMahon). Included as the required reading
material for a graduate level course jointly offered
by the E.O.L. and Economics departments at UIUC.
Other
Writings
Available at: http://www.sulekha.com/memberpages/profile.asp?shortcut=/beloo_mehra
- Dowry and Dowry Demands: What we ‘know’ and
how we ‘know’
- Pride and Probe: Political Coming-of-Age
for Indian Americans
- Sex Selective Abortion in India:
Asking and Answering the Questions
- Attack on IDRF: Little Method to
Their Madness
- In the Line of ‘Fire’:
Art, Artist and Gender
- IndDiaspora: Connecting Individuals,
Identities, and Emotions
- Triptych
- I am Home! Or Am I
- Of Automobiles, Ethnicity, and Stereotypes
- An Electronic Death
- A Journey of Dreams
- A Desi Party
- Living in Two Worlds: Issues of
Bi-cultural Identity for Asian Indian Children in America
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