Nadya Shaznay Patel

Assistant Professor (Education; Language, communication and culture; Psychology; Health sciences; Human society)

Singapore

Dr Nadya Patel, an Assistant Professor in the Business, Communication and Design cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology, has accumulated over twenty years of experience as an educator, researcher and trainer. With a passion for critical design futures thinking for interdisciplinary learning, she co-develops design innovation and multimedia design modules that aim to develop learners' critical competence, design dexterity and futures flexibility through design innovation projects. At the invitation of local and international institutions, she regularly facilitates professional development workshops on pedagogical approaches to improve teaching and learning practices. Committed to bridging the research-practice gap, she engages industry partners in applied research projects that leverage her expertise and interests in critical design futures thinking for innovation.

Publications

Establishing Social Presence for an Engaging Online Teaching and Learning Experience
Development of Criticality in Thought: A Conceptual Framework for Online Student Discussion Forums in Higher Education
Making Critical Thinking Explicit and Visible with Dialogic Scaffolding
Understanding Critical Thinking: A Minimal English Approach
Assessing student CT skills in the disciplines: Partnering students in designing online quizzes for applied learning
Is it graded? Using online discussion forums to develop criticality in thought
Empathetic and Dialogic Interactions: Modelling Intellectual Empathy and Communicating Care
Orchestration of talk and gestures for dialogic scaffolding: a case study of reading instruction / Orquestación del habla y los gestos para un andamiaje dialógico: un estudio de caso de la enseñanza de la lectura
Coaching Students in Higher Education
Coaching in Higher Education
Empathetic Coaching Conversations
Coaching Dialogue as Feedback to Improve Performance
Shaping future-ready graduates with mindset shifts: studying the impact of integrating critical and design thinking in design innovation education