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Staff
CEIEC Team Members
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Mindy Blaise
Monash University
Current Research:
Locating, Sustaining, and Disrupting Gender Discourses:
May 2001 A Feminist Poststructuralist Study of Gender in Two Kindergarten
Classrooms Supported in part by The Spencer Foundation and The
Rhode Island
College Faculty Research Grant
Principal investigator for a year long, collaborative, qualitative,
and classroom based study of gender in two kindergarten classrooms.
September 2000- May 2001
(De)Constructing Teaching: Promises and Possibilities of Practitioner
Inquiry in Preservice Teacher Education
Utilized practitioner inquiry to critically analyze how preservice
early childhood teachers constructed discourses of gender and how
it impacted their classroom practice. Data was also used to inform
my practice as a teacher educator, committed to social action.
Data sources included written work (student autobiographies, response
papers, and journals), students drawings with reflective essays,
and audiotaped class discussions.
Dr Blaise has been invited to present on her work done as a teacher-researcher
in a kindergarten classroom. In particular Dr Blaise will discuss
authentic assessment and other classroom-based qualitative research
projects, feminist poststructuralist research, and the implications
of feminisms and early childhood curriculum. Dr. Blaise visited
the CEIEC during May and June 2002 and has been involved in an
ongoing way in the work of the CEIEC through seminar and conference
presentations. She also contributes to the CEIEC journal, IJEIEC
and to the review of the annual CEIEC conference. |
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