Angelpreet Singh

Faculty Instructor
Applied Community Studies
Early Childhood Education
singha121@douglascollege.ca

About

Dr. Angelpreet Singh is a full-time faculty member in the Early Childhood Education Department at Douglas College. Before joining Douglas College in 2021, I taught early childhood undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario. I am also the mother of two beautiful young children. 

I earned my BA in Early Childhood Education from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) and my BEd (Primary/Junior Grades K-6) and MEd, with a focus on family and community literacy, from York University’s Faculty of Education. I continued my academic journey with a PhD in Languages, Cultures, and Literacies from Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Education.

My scholarly interests include early childhood education, early childhood bilingualism, and preparing educators to use digital technologies to foster bilingualism and multilingualism. My dissertation research was entitled Early bilingual development in preschool and kindergarten: An ethnographic study of three Punjabi-speaking emergent bilingual learners in British Columbia. I am particularly interested in documenting the translanguaging practices of emergent bilinguals across both formal and informal early childhood learning environments.

Education and credentials

  • PhD, Simon Fraser
  • MEd, York
  • BEd, York
  • BA, Toronto Metropolitan

Publications and other research outputs

Refereed journal articles

  • Dagenais, D., Toohey, K., Bennett Fox, A., & Singh, A. (2017). Multilingual and multimodal composition at school: ScribJab in action. Language and Education, 31(3), 263-282.
  • Toohey, K., Dagenais, D., Fodor, A., Hof, L., Nuñez-Mendez, O., Singh, A., & Schulze, L. (2015). “That sounds so cooool”: Entanglements of children, digital tools, and literacy practices. TESOL Quarterly, 49(3), 461-485.

Conference proceedings

Courses taught

  • ECED 1121
    Transforming and Teaching: Observing and Documenting the Learning and Care of Young Children
  • ECED 1125
    Promoting Healthy Practices in Early Childhood Education
  • ECED 1155
    Introduction to ECE
  • ECED 1200
    Growth and Development: Preschool Years
  • ECED 1211
    Professional Growth and Communication
  • ECED 1220
    Methods for Inclusive Play-Based Programs for Preschool Children
  • ECED 2315
    Working with Families in Early Childhood Education
  • ECED 2320
    Methods for Inclusive Play-Based Programmes for Young Children II
  • ECED 2331
    ECE Curriculum II
  • ECED 2365
    Global Perspectives and Early Childhood Education
  • ECED 1285
    Early Childhood Education Practicum 1
  • ECED 2385
    Early Childhood Education Practicum ll

Awards

  • Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award, Western University, London, ON (2022)

Conference and event organization

  • Singh, A. (2025, May 1). Nurturing multilingual futures: Strategies for supporting emergent bilingual children in early childhood education programs. [Workshop presentation]. Early Childhood Education Jamboree. Douglas College, Coquitlam, BC, Canada.
  • Singh, A. (2025, January 31-February 1). Supporting emergent bilingual children in early childhood programs. [Workshop presentation]. The Children the Heart of the Matter Conference, Surrey, BC, Canada.
  • Singh, A. (2017, May). Exploring the translanguaging practices of emergent bilingual children in kindergarten [Paper presentation]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Singh, A. (2017, April). Constructing spaces for translanguaging in a kindergarten classroom [Paper presentation]. Supporting Practice, Advocacy, Research, and Knowledge (SPARK): The Early Years Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • Singh, A. (2017, March). Meeting the needs of emergent bilingual children in kindergarten [Paper presentation]. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Doctoral Research Forum in conjunction with the TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo, Seattle, WA, United States.
  • Singh, A. (2016, May). Literacies in and out of school: Learning from first-generation Punjabi families in two Canadian cities [Paper presentation]. SFU’s Faculty of Education Learning Together Conference, SFU, Surrey, BC, Canada.
  • Singh, A. (2016, February). Using photographs as a tool for understanding Punjabi families’ beliefs about early literacy instruction [Paper presentation]. Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC), Las Vegas, NV, United States.
  • Singh, A. (2016, January). Understanding teachers’ beliefs about bilingualism in early childhood classrooms [Paper presentation]. International Academic Forum (IAFOR) International Conference on Language Learning, Honolulu, HI, United States.