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).

Jennifer is an assoicate editor for the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory (Routledge) and a columnist for PESA AGORA. 

Completed Research Student Supervision

• Muhalim (PhD, 2020). Religious Discourses in ELT In Indonesia: Lecturers' Ideological Becoming in Institutional Practices, makes a distinct and significant contribution to knowledge. Main Supervisor: Alex Kostogriz; Associate Supervisor: Jennifer Bleazby. 
• 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.

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