Heather Greenhalgh‐Spencer

Texas Tech University | TTU · Department of Curriculum and Instruction

In this article, Heather Greenhalgh‐Spencer argues that deep listening is the foundational component of bridge‐building; that it is deep listening that foments the trust and desire for action that undergirds our building of bridges. While “listening” is not a new topic, Greenhalgh‐Spencer adds to the literature by expanding on what are the essentia...

Middle grades science teachers seek avenues to differentiate classroom-based curricular activities to provide more opportunities for their students to master science content and also to create a classroom environment that is both responsive and inclusive to students’ changing and uniquely individualized learning needs. This article addresses this s...

Despite progress in engineering careers, gendered underrepresentation remains. Research on gender disparity suggests that women engineers have varied experiences both prior to and within their engineering careers, influencing their perceptions and persistence. The bulk of prior research has focused on women who lose interest prior to entering engin...

In this chapter, the authors make the argument that online doctoral students need opportunities to develop scholarly dispositions, particularly dispositions associated with collegiality and professionalism. They make that argument by first defining what they mean by dispositions, then by making an argument for a dispositional standpoint of care and...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between and among two universities within US Prep, and to explain how relational ties are impacting the spread of curricular change through the lens of social network analysis. The problem this study addresses is that teacher education curriculum has seen many short-lived change initiatives...

Haraway foregrounds many stories that we, in a late capitalist era, tell ourselves in order to justify, or not even notice, actions that are harmful to all living things. While I am mindful of Haraway’s excellent attention to the ways that ‘stories tell stories, thoughts think thoughts, and knots knot knots,’ I argue that we must take great care wh...

In this article, Heather Greenhalgh‐Spencer analyzes three examples of curricula aimed at cultivating good cyber behavior and countering online harassment. These curricula are branded as addressing civic needs, cultivating civic duty, and developing skills to help students understand and react to online threats. Here, Greenhalgh‐Spencer offers two...

In this chapter I foreground three key philosophical concepts that are of renewed interest in new (technology-enabled) schooling spaces: autonomy, authority, and the notion of a public or community. In order to give concrete examples of how these philosophical questions play out, I use personalized learning (PL) as an example where digital technolo...

This chapter probes deeply into the tangled historicities that animate British-bequeathed elite schools now operating in new competitive transnational educational markets in selected post-developmental states. The scenarios of this competition are increasingly moving online in photo and video-sharing websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Flicker a...

When we, as authors, first started writing the papers in this special issue, the competing and colluding forces of nationalism, misogyny, Islamophobia, Western elitism, inequality, and discourses of ethnic purity had not reached the force that they have as this issue goes to print. These papers were originally thought of as a way to give voice to c...

In this paper, we provide a design–actuality gap-analysis of the internet infrastructure that exists in developing nations and nations in the global South with the deployed internet computer technologies (ICT)-assisted programs that are designed to use internet infrastructure to provide educational opportunities. Programs that specifically pinpoint...

Transdisciplinary education offers an opportunity to enhance complex problem-solving skills for engineers (among other disciplines), increase efficacy for diverse students, and increase possibilities for deep learning experiences. In order to test the efficacy of Transdisciplinary (TD) content pedagogy, we undertook a quasi-experimental case study...

This paper argues for a more complex literature around gender and math performance. In order to argue for this complexity, we present a small portion of data from a case study examining the performance of Kuwaiti students on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and on Kuwait national math tests. Westernized discourses suggest t...

While there is always a risk when feminists within academia aim to foreground the experiences of women outside of the Western context, this aim is still needed given that so much scholarship and hegemonic discourse frames the Western experience as standard. This special issue presents scholarship embedded in local contexts; scholarship that relies...

Within the digital workforce, women are disappearing. While there are many factors that could be ‘blamed’ for this phenomenon, this article takes issue with the sexist and patriarchal discourses that are deployed within the digital workforce. In many ways, sexist discourses are taken for granted within the digital workplace; and in that way, the di...

This paper describes the creation of a Transdisciplinary Design Studio (TD2S) for Collaborative Research and Education (CORE) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University and a study of this pedagogy for undergraduate engineering students. More specifically, this paper highlights a project-based TD design class which encoura...

This chapter explores the hows of doing research by bringing a critical lens from an outside field of research to bear on one’s own field of research: Critical Interdisciplinarity. In this research methodology, one draws on various studies, metaphors, and terms from one field in order to ask questions of, illuminate, or challenge some assumptions i...

The authors describe the application of transdisciplinary theory and practice to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at the undergraduate level. The modular approach which makes use of student collaboration within and across disciplines and input from outside experts holds promise for preparing students to address soci...

PurposeEcosophy focuses on the broad and deep connections we all share; the relationships within, among, and between social processes, economies, ideologies, materialities, and living systems. Methodology/approachIn order to bring ecosophical issues to the fore, I draw on a pedagogy of the glocal: a pedagogy informed by an awareness of, and aiming...

In this chapter, we explore schooling in the postcolonial context as a particular type of cultural artifact. Eschewing dominant qualitative research tendencies that privilege the word and the text over the visual and the physical, we argue that deeper complexities and nuances come to the fore when we focus on the visual fields, noting that the visu...

This article draws on ethnographic research that examines the contemporary articulation of class identity in the postcolonial elite school setting of Old College high school in Barbados. From the qualitative data derived from this study, we argue that social class is better conceived as a series of flows, mutations, performances and performatives....

Guattari's ecosophy has implications for many types of pedagogy practiced in the school. While Guattari never explicitly advocated the educational use of ecosophy, I explore in this article how it can be used as a lens to ‘read’ pedagogy in nuanced ways, highlighting oppressive premises and practices. I first discuss Guattari's ecosophy, defining k...

In her book, Neoliberalism as Exception, Aihwa Ong usefully observes that the North American university has been dirempted from it historical role of preparing young people for democratic citizenship. It has instead, according to Ong, become the great global marketplace and grand bazaar for international students' ambitions. In what follows, we dra...

This paper uses performativity theories to explore the question of audience as it relates to reading the performance of the 'white expert'. The 'white expert' is one whose words play them out to be someone with certain knowledges about racism; someone using those knowledges to work against racism and inequality. Yet, the 'white expert' is also bodi...