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- Ph.D., Curriculum Instruction & the Science of Learning, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- M.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- B.S., Business Administration, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
BIO
Dr. Alexia Buono has been teaching for 15 years as an early childhood educator, dance educator, and teacher educator. Her teaching utilizes arts-based, abolitionist, somatic, and relationship-building pedagogies that shape communities of belonging with her students. She designs courses that center joy, compassion, imagination, and criticality, utilizing justice-oriented methods of inquiry- and play-based projects, collaborative learning, and humanizing modes of assessment.
In her passion for justly transforming teacher education, Dr. Buono maintains an interdisciplinary and international research agenda. She studies liberatory pedagogies for young children (preschool age) and pre-service teachers, liberatory curriculum development, and critical arts (re)integration. She and her collaborators engage methodologies of decolonial (post)qualitative, arts-based research, and critical somatic inquiry, and have received grants through the Abolitionist Teaching Network and the Svenska Folkskolans Vänner.
Dr. Buono's scholarship has been published in The Journal of Dance Education, Research in Dance Education, Pedagogies: An International Journal, and The International Journal of Education and the Arts.
She is also an active, joyful member of the Vermont Releaf Collective and the Latinx Dance Educators Alliance.
Courses
- EDEC 2130 Creative Arts & Movement
- EDEC 2490 Preschool Practicum
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- North Star Collective Faculty Fellowship, The New England Board of Higher Education, 2024
- CESS Global Seed Innovation Grant, 2024
- Student-Nominated for the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, SUNY Brockport, 2020
- Acker Alumni Keynote Speaker, Acker Scholar Pinning Ceremony, SUNY at Buffalo, 2018
Area(s) of expertise
- Dance education
- Early childhood education
- Teacher education
- Arts (re)integration
- Arts-based educational research
- Liberatory pedagogy and curriculum design
Bio
Dr. Alexia Buono has been teaching for 15 years as an early childhood educator, dance educator, and teacher educator. Her teaching utilizes arts-based, abolitionist, somatic, and relationship-building pedagogies that shape communities of belonging with her students. She designs courses that center joy, compassion, imagination, and criticality, utilizing justice-oriented methods of inquiry- and play-based projects, collaborative learning, and humanizing modes of assessment.
In her passion for justly transforming teacher education, Dr. Buono maintains an interdisciplinary and international research agenda. She studies liberatory pedagogies for young children (preschool age) and pre-service teachers, liberatory curriculum development, and critical arts (re)integration. She and her collaborators engage methodologies of decolonial (post)qualitative, arts-based research, and critical somatic inquiry, and have received grants through the Abolitionist Teaching Network and the Svenska Folkskolans Vänner.
Dr. Buono's scholarship has been published in The Journal of Dance Education, Research in Dance Education, Pedagogies: An International Journal, and The International Journal of Education and the Arts.
She is also an active, joyful member of the Vermont Releaf Collective and the Latinx Dance Educators Alliance.
Courses
- EDEC 2130 Creative Arts & Movement
- EDEC 2490 Preschool Practicum
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- North Star Collective Faculty Fellowship, The New England Board of Higher Education, 2024
- CESS Global Seed Innovation Grant, 2024
- Student-Nominated for the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, SUNY Brockport, 2020
- Acker Alumni Keynote Speaker, Acker Scholar Pinning Ceremony, SUNY at Buffalo, 2018
Areas of Expertise
- Dance education
- Early childhood education
- Teacher education
- Arts (re)integration
- Arts-based educational research
- Liberatory pedagogy and curriculum design