Monique Somma

Dr. Monique Somma is an associate professor and emerging scholar in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University. Currently, she co-develops and teaches courses to teacher candidates on topics including child development, cognition and the inclusion of students with exceptionalities, in order to help prepare future teachers to effectively meet the needs of diverse learners in the classroom. As an elementary school teacher herself, having taught special education and inclusive classes for 15 years, she understands firsthand the challenges and the successes of working with children with exceptionalities in the 20th century. Her research focuses on preschool to secondary educator preparedness for inclusive education, from attitudes and beliefs to learning and practice, best practices for creating inclusive classrooms and schools for students with exceptionalities, and how peer involvement can enhance inclusion.

Email: msomma@brocku.ca

Projects and Publications

• Teaching Inclusive Education through Life Story Inquiry, Textook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-59983-5?sap-outbound-id=2C15DA16FF2B90BAE209F96214D484A9FD4A017B

• Inclusive Change in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: A Collaborative Autoethnography: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/eei/article/view/16932

• “Maybe We Have to Create Something Different”: Fostering Inclusion in Montessori Education: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/eei/article/view/16594

• Inclusive Education and Pedagogical Change: Experiences from the Front Lines: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1254783.pdf