Jennifer Bleazby — Monash University

Personal profile

Biography

Jennifer Bleazby has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia since 2010 (including two, 12 month periods of maternity leave in 2013-2014; 2016-2017). Prior to taking up her position at Monash University, she worked as a philosophy, history, humanities and media studies teacher in both government and independent secondary schools. In 2007, she completed a PhD in the School of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Her main areas of research are philosophy of education; philosophy for children; ethics and religion in schools; children's rights; curriculum theory; feminist philosophy; and pragmatism, especially the philosophy of John Dewey. She is the author of the book, Social Reconstruction Learning: Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools (2013, Routledge), as well as co-editor of J. Quay, J. Bleazby, S. A. Stolz, M. Toscano, & R. S. Webster's, Using Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological dialogues (2018, Routledge). She is also an associate editor for the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory (Routledge).

Completed Research Student Supervision

Brian Jeganathan (PhD, 2019). Cultural Worker as "Horizontal Intellectual" in a miliatrized postcolonial site: Jacques Ranciere's "equality of intelligence" as an unconditional prerequesite. Main Supervsior: Jennifer Bleazby; Associate Supervisor: Mary Lou Rasmussen.
Joy Whitton (PhD, 2016). Fostering Imagination in Higher Education Teaching and Learning: Making Connections. Main Supervisor: Jennifer Bleazby; Associate Supervisor: Anne Harris.
Be Beng Toh (PhD, 2016). The Influence of Post-Secondary Student's Internet Technology Use on their Epistemological Beliefs, Conceptions of, and Approaches to, Learning. Main Supervisor: Nicola Johnson; Assoicate Supervisor: Jennifer Bleazby.
Anthony Tarranto (Masters, 2013). How do Heads of House in an Independnet Secondary School Evaluate and Understand Pastoral Care? Main Supervisor: Jennifer Bleazby.

Monash teaching commitment

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Education/Academic qualification

Philosophy, PhD, The University of New South Wales

Education, Graduate Diploma of Education, The University of Melbourne

Philosophy/Film, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), La Trobe University

Keywords

Philosophy of education
John Dewey
Philosophy for children
Ethics and religion in schools
Pragmatism
Curriculum and pedagogy
Feminist philosophy

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Research Output 2004 2019

Education

Bleazby, J., 2019, A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy. Oppy, G. (ed.). 1st ed. Hoboken NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, p. 383-395 13 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

In community with Ann Margaret Sharp: childhood, philosophy and education

Bleazby, J., 25 Apr 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Educational Philosophy and Theory. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other › peer-review

Philosophy for children goes to university

Bleazby, J. & Slade, C., 2019, Philosophical Inquiry with Children: The Development of an Inquiring Society in Australia. Burgh, G. & Thornton, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 215-232 18 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

John Dewey

Bleazby, J. B., 2018, The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Religion. Taliaferro, C. & Goetz, S. (eds.). Australia: Wiley-Blackwell

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Other › peer-review

Locating theory in research: opening a conversation

Quay, J., Bleazby, J., Stolz, S. A., Toscano, M. & Webster, R. S., 16 Mar 2018, Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues. Quay, J., Bleazby, J., Stolz, S. A., Toscano, M. & Webster, R. S. (eds.). 1st ed. London UK: Routledge, p. 1-22 22 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review