Degrees/Diplomas: PhD, Columbia University
Campus Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center
Training Area: Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Social Development among Children, Youth, and organizations in Challenging Contexts, including War, Post-War Transitions, and Under-Funded Urban Schools; Uses of Discourse and Technology for Development
Phone: 212.817.8711
Email: cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu
Website: https://www.colettedaiute.org
Colette Daiute is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before coming to CUNY, she was a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Daiute does research on the interactions of individual and societal development in extremely adverse and rapidly changing environments. Colette Daiute’s book publications include Narrative Inquiry, A Dynamic Approach (Sage Publications); Human Development and Political Violence (Cambridge University Press); Minority Educators – the Roma in Serbia – Narrate Education Reform (cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu for a copy); International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development (Oxford University Press). Journal articles include “Narrating Crisis from War Zones to Disease Zones” Journal of Humanistic Psychology, COVID-19 special issue and “Dynamic values negotiating geo-political narratives across a migration system. Qualitative Psychology (2020). She was President of the Piaget Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development (2017-2020). With current and past students, Professor Daiute convenes the “Narrating Change Research Group” focusing on practice-based research in communities challenging social injustice, inequity, and systemic racism via their uses of critical discourse, education, and participatory policy making.