DIRECTORY LISTING

Office Hours

Thursday 6-7:30 pm and on-line by appointment -frances.rofrano@lehman.cuny.edu

Biography

Frances Rofrano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Early Childhood/Childhood Education teaching infant/toddler social emotional development, early childhood pre-K to grade 2 development, and social Studies courses in the department’s MSED program. She also teaches in the Early Childhood Minor program. In addition, she is a Bright Space Ambassador.
Her research interests include the intersection and classroom application of the psychological coming to be of the young child through the lens of Object Relations Theorist D.W. Winnicott - Winnicott goes to school: examining early psychological development to inform infant/toddler and preschool practice (2016 ), The Cost of Being “Good”: Compliance and Non-Compliance in Early Care and Education (2024) with the nurturing and affirming of infant spirituality (Affirming the Value of the Child: A Spiritual Curriculum for Infant/Toddler Education (2010), and a theory in infant spirituality-I/Thou-I Spirit (2010) rooted in the philosophical anthropological writings of Martin Buber .

Professor Rofrano has been in the Early Childhood field as a Site Director for a Corporate Day Care, a college-based Infant/Toddler Research Center director and supervisor of pre-service teachers and as a classroom teacher of young children B-pre-K. She formerly taught Literacy and Social Studies in middle and high school and in the Secure Division for Youth.