Antoinette Alom, PhD

Título/Appointment: Associate Professor
Departamento/Department: Social Sciences Department
Institución/Institution: UPR-Cayey
E-mail: antoinette.alom@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161 ext. 2076

Reseña/Biosketch:

Researcher at the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba until 1999, on issues related to the world of work, education and youth subjectivity. Between 2003 and 2007 she coordinated the High School Career Opportunities in Research Training and Educational Program (HS-COR) at UPR Río Piedras. She has taught psychology courses at the undergraduate level in private universities in Puerto Rico and was for five years a professor in the Psychology Graduate Program at UPR Rio Piedras. Since 2014 she has been a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the UPR in Cayey. She was part of the Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (IPERT), a multicampus interdisciplinary training program in biomedical and health research. She coordinated between 2018 and 2019 a Tutoring Program for children and adolescents in the El Polvorín community in Cayey. She has been part of academic committees and coordinated the evaluation of the Baccalaureate Program in Psychology 2015-2020. She belongs to the Puerto Rico Psychology Association and has collaborated as a resource for the Certification in University Teaching offered by that association. She was part of a project of pedagogical accompaniment in the School of Law of the Interamerican University. She collaborates as an evaluator in professional journals in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rica and Peru.

Preparación Académica/Education:

Certification in Developmental Disabilities and Early Intervention, Graduate School of Public Health, UPR, Medical Sciences Campus, 2012.

PhD in Philosophy with specialization in Academic-Research Psychology, UPR, Río Piedras Campus, 2009.

Degree in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Havana, 1988.

Áreas de Investigación/Research Interests:

  • Her current research interests revolve around learning, development, teaching, the history of psychology, and the cultural historical perspective.

Publicaciones/Publications:

  1. Cordero-Arroyo, G. y Alom, A.  (2021). Ética en Psicología Escolar: Dilemas en la evaluación e investigación en el contexto puertorriqueño. En M. Martínez-Planas, M. Moreno-Torres e I. Serrano-García, (Eds.). Aportaciones desde Puerto Rico a la Psicología Escolar (pp. 75-91). COATTI Inc.
  2. Alom, A. (2019). Revisión del libro: Desarrollo Humano: Travesía de retos y oportunidades. Revista Puertorriqueña de Psicología, 30(2), 358-363. https://www.repsasppr.net/index.php/reps/article/view/600/639
  3. Alom-Alemán, A. y Castillo-Muñoz, J. (2015). Sinopsis sobre instancias desde donde se producen los datos estadísticos en Puerto Rico y sus efectos en la generación de política pública (Panel 2). [online] CIDE digital, Abril, 6(1), 10-17. https://demografia.rcm.upr.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/04/CIDEvol6num1-abril-2015-Sinopsis-2-Anom-Aleman-Juana-Castillo.pdf
  4. Alom, A. (2013). ¿Qué es y cómo fomentar el pensamiento crítico?. En I. Serrano-García, W. Rodríguez Arocho, J. Bonilla, T.García, L. Maldonado, S. Pérez-López, &  C. Rivera Lugo. (Eds.) El reto de la educación universitaria: Experiencias desde la psicología (pp. 361-376). Humacao, P.R.: Artes Gráficas, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
  5. Alom, A. (2012). Enseñar psicología: dos retos y una invitación al diálogo. En Boletín de la Asociación de Psicología de Puerto Rico, Vol. 35 (3), octubre 2012.
  6. Rodríguez Arocho, W.C. & Alom, A. (2009).  El enfoque sociocultural en el diseño y construcción de una comunidad de aprendizaje. Actualidades investigativas en educación, 9. Recuperado 10 de Diciembre 2009, de http://revista.inie.ucr.ac.cr/articulos/esp-2009/comunidad.php