Scholarship+Interests

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What are you studying? What do you hope to study in the future? What are the key topics or ideas in your research that you use to identify your direction? //

My interests are in a couple of areas. First, history of education. Specifically, the roots of the Progressive education movement and how they are related to the kindergarten movement (Col. Parker, Dewey, and Elizabeth Harrison and other early kindergarten leaders and the intellectual relationship between them). This brings me into the history of women as educational leaders, thinkers and doers, not just the implementers of what the men designed.

My second area of interest is more contemporary--how teachers use action research to become teacher-researchers and what that means to them. How they begin to become empowered and see themselves differently, what it means to be a teacher-researcher, not JUST a teacher, and how that can lead to becoming a teacher-leader, and what that means and how action research facilitates that evolution.

I have other interests, but these are my main ones...I need to focus!