Wilma Robles De Melendez Wilma Robles de Melendez, Ph.D., is a professor of early childhood education at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has over two decades of experience in the field of early childhood and is a specialist in multicultural eduction and diversity issues and practices. An active member of state, national, and international early childhood associations, she has written and published several books and articles in education journals as well as another text with Vesna (Ostertag) Beck for Cengage, Teaching Social Studies in Early Education. Read More Read Less