Shannon+Hart

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__**Scholarship Interests**__

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!

__**Progress as of March 11:**__


 * 1: Impact of culturally relevant teacher preparation on beginning teachers' classroom practice (working title): outline for presentation and article that I'm working on with a friend who is writing her dissertation on this (this is her data). We need to decide where to present and try to publish this. Right now I'm thinking AERA, NAME for presentations. I'm not sure about a good publication journal--maybe ATE?


 * 1) 2 Kindergarten and Progressive Education: Working on a presentation proposal for Organization of Educational Historians conference in Chicago in September. Proposal is due April 1.