Rate My Professor Tunde Szecsi

Szecsi's research focuses on early childhood education leadership in culturally and linguistically diverse settings, heritage language maintenance and practices in immigrant families, infusing undergraduate research skills in teacher education, benefits of holistic family language and literacy programs, strategies for teaching English language learners, neuropedagogy and EEG research in early childhood, humane education, multicultural education and diversity in teacher preparation, and cross-cultural professional dialogues. Notable publications include Fonsén et al.'s 'Teachers’ pedagogical leadership in early childhood education' (Educational Research, 2022), Szecsi et al.'s 'Bilingual refugee-background student resilience, meta-linguistic awareness, and pride in bilingual skills' (Journal of English Learner Education, 2021), Szecsi, Aydin, and Giambo's 'Lived experiences of Puerto Rican university students displaced to South Florida after Hurricane Maria' (Journal of Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021), Szilagyi and Szecsi's 'Why and how to maintain the Hungarian language: Hungarian–American families’ heritage language practices' (Heritage Language Journal, 2020), and Halpern, Szecsi, and Mak's 'Everyone can be a leader.' Early childhood education leadership in a center serving culturally and linguistically diverse children and families (Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020). She has earned distinctions such as Fulbright Specialist Candidate (2013), Faculty Advisor of the Year from the Association for Childhood Education International (2009), Team Service Excellence Award from Florida Gulf Coast University (2012), and multiple grants including Hungary Initiative Foundation Conference Grant (2017), Innovative Assignment Design Grants (2018, 2021), and Scholarship Reconsidered Grants (2018–2022).