M. Jayne Fleener
 
 
Education
 
 

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December, 1988

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
 
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