About me
Paige M. Bray, USA, is Director of Montessori Studies, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and directs the Institute for Translational Research at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her teaching expertise focuses on the personal “reflexes” and professional identity transitions fostered through dynamic inquiry and the use of meta-cognitive tools and includes undergraduate and graduate level teaching, specifically the transitions occurring in the first semester and during the final semesters of clinical experience. An advocate for children and families, Dr. Bray’s research is grounded by a community context and consistently emphasizes human capacity as knowledge producers as well as knowledge consumers. She earned her B.A. and M.Ed. from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bray integrates her research, theory, and practice as co-founder of The Center for Montessori Studies.