M.
Jayne Fleener |
|||
Education |
|||
Dissertation: Using the computer as an instructional tool to aid in mathematical problem solving M.A.T. Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August, 1983 M.A. Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August, 1980. Thesis: Epistemology of mathematics B.A. Philosophy, Indiana University at Bloomington, May, 1978 |
|||
| Honors and Awards | |||
| Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Education, 1995. Teaching and Service Award from the Central Oklahoma Association of Teacher of Mathematics (COATM), 1994. Recognition in Spotlight on Teaching (a publication of the University of Oklahoma) for the use of technology in the teaching of mathematics, April, 1992. Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Award for Outstanding
Leadership and Service, 2002 |
|||
| Representative Publications | |||
![]() |
Doll, W., Fleener, M.J., Trueit, D., St. Julien, J. (Eds.) (2005). Chaos, complexity, curriculum and culture: A conversation. New York: Peter Lang. |
||
![]() |
Fleener, M.J. (2002). Curriculum dynamics:
Recreating heart. New York: Peter Lang. |
||
|
Fleener, M.J., (2005). “Learning as dynamic spacing: Changing language games through complexity”. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2(1), pp. 77-80 (December). Fleener, M.J., Smith, J.K., Simpson, D. (2005). “Philosophy and teacher education: Paradox or paradigm?” Process Philosophy Papers (9), pp. 66-75. Fleener, M.J., Carter, A., & Reeder, S. (2004). “Language games in the mathematics classroom: Teaching a way of life”. Journal of Curriculum Studies 36(4), pp. 445-468. Fleener, M. J., Reeder, S. L., Young, E., Reynolds, A. M. (2003). “Unfolding mathematical experience through on-going study of the history of mathematics”. Action in Teacher Education, Vol. XXIV (3), pp. 73-84. Fleener, M.J., Richardson, K., & Matney, G. (2004). “Deterritorializing the curriculum: Poststructural logic and dynamic process”. In L. Coia, et al., Democratic Responses in an Era of Standardization, pp. 27-37. Troy, NY: Educator’s International Press, Inc. Fleener, M.J. (2004). “Why mathematics?: Poststructural topologies and negative spaces”. In Walshaw, M (Ed.) Mathematics education within the postmodern. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. |
|||
| Recent Grants | |||
| External Grants and
Contracts (over $2 million of funded projects in role as PI or PD) 2003 NCLB Title II, 2003, Data-Driven Decision-Making Professional Development for Oklahoma Urban Preservice and Inservice Educators, Co-PI (with Carla Thompson, David Garner), $48,037. 2003 NCLB Title II, 2003, Teacher Increased Content Knowledge Equals Student Achievement in Mathematics (TICK=SAM), Research Consultant (Co-PI’s Mary Stewart & Sacra Nicholas), $91,139 Service Provider, Mathematics Tutoring Program, NCLB Title I through Oklahoma City Public Schools, (PI/PD), $7,689 Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, CITyS: Computer Integrated Technology Services for Preservice and In-service Teachers. (PI), $16,000. National Science Foundation, 2003-2006, PGE/RES Why Does It Work? A Study of Successful Gender Equity in Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Co-PI (Teri Jo Murphy, PI/PD), $990,000. Hitachi Corporation, 1999 - 2002, Internet-based Training for Teachers to Develop and Implement Multimedia Technologies, Co-PI, (with Kurt Gramoll, Engineering), $253,497. |
|||
| Courses | |||
| Chaos, Complexity,
and curriculum Middle School and Secondary Mathematics Curriculum: Theory and Research Postmodern Conversations Systems Theories and Learning Organizations Theoretical Issues in Instructional Leadership Theory and Research in Mathematics Education |
|||
Contact info. |
|||
| Office: 221 Peabody Hall Office Phone: 225-578-1258 Webpage : http://calvin.ednet.lsu.edu/~fleener/index.htm E-mail: fleener@lsu.edu |
|||
| Back to Homepage | |||