FACULTY & STAFF DIRECTORY
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M. Jayne Fleener Dean
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Dean Fleener has over 20 years of professional experience in K-12 and higher education, including teaching high school mathematics and computer science in North Carolina. She has her Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, and two master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina. She received her doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill and is in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in mathematics education. Before coming to LSU, she was on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma for fifteen years where she also served in the role of Associate Dean of the College of Education.
Growing up, Dean Fleener attended the Indiana University Lab School and is very pleased to be a part of the LSU Lab School Administrative Team. She has numerous publications and national and international presentations. Her two books, published in the United States in 2002 and 2005, are currently being translated into Chinese. As the daughter of educators Dean Fleener is passionate about education and educational futures. She is married to Michael Merritt and they have one grown son, James.
Homepages:
http://opal.csi.lsu.edu/deanfleener/ver2/index.htm
EDUCATION:
PhD 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
FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
E.B. “Ted” Professor and Dean, College of Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2004-present
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Education, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1999-2004
Professor, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2001-2004
Associate Professor, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1995-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1989-1995
Teacher, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Durham Academy, Durham, NC, 1985-1989
Teacher, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Durham City Schools,
Durham, NC. (Department Chair: 1984-1985), 1983-1985
RESEARCH
External Grants and Contracts
US Department of Education, 2006, GEAR UP LSU, PI (with Suzan Gaston, PD),$5,395,948.
Learn and Serve America, 2006, LSU Ready & Response Service Team, PI, $45,000.
Ronald McDonald House Charities, 2006, The Delta Express Project, PI (with the LSU Foundation), $818,280. (pending)
Point Coupee Parish Schools, 2006, LSU TIPS Partnership Subcontract, PI, $38,265
LA Board of Regents, 2006, Literacy Across the Curriculum Subgrant, PI (with Patti Exner, PhD), $5,000
LA Department of Education and the Pointe Coupee Parish Schools, 2006, Louisiana FIRST Online TIPS, PI (with Patti Exner, PhD), $38,265
PUBLICATIONS
In Press
Fleener, M.J. (in press). Curriculum dynamics: Recreating heart (Chinese translation). (Original work published 2002).
Doll, W., Fleener, M.J., Trueit, D., & St. Julien, J. (Eds.). (in press). Chaos, complexity, curriculum and culture: A conversation (Chinese translation). (Original work published 2005).
Forehand, C. & Fleener, M.J. (in press). Creativity and Doll's Three S's: Songs Without End and Selves Without Boundary
Books
Doll, W., Fleener, M.J., Trueit, D., St. Julien, J. (Eds.) (2005). Chaos, complexity, curriculum and culture: A conversation. New York: Peter Lang (Translated into Chinese, 2007).
Fleener, M.J. (2002). Curriculum dynamics: Recreating heart. New York: Peter Lang (Translated into Chinese, 2007).
NATIONAL REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Fleener, M.J. & Matney, G. (2007). Curriculum clearings as being-with mathematics experiences: Authentic learning through a Heideggerian Lens. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Fleener, M.J. & Merritt, M. (2007). Paradigms Lost? Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and the Life Sciences.
Fleener, M.J., Willis, J., Brun, J., Hebert, K. (2007). Post-Katrina Educational Contexts: Breaking the Rules. In S. Robinson & M.C. Brown, The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics.
Reeder, S., Cassel, D., Reynolds, A., Fleener, M.J. (2006). Doing Something Different: Envisioning and Enacting Mathematics Curriculum Alternatives. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue: A Journal of the AATC.
Fleener, M. J., Reeder, S. (2006). Teaching etcetera. In Evans, M. & Allan, G., The New Three R’s of Education.
BOOK REVIEWS - INVITED
Fleener, M.J. [Review of Tent, M.B.W. (2006). The prince of mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, Ltd.]. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School.
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed National and International Presentations
Fleener, M.J. (2007). Moral Dimensions of Postmodern Criticality in Complexity Research. AERA Symposium Paper SIG-Chaos and Complexity Theories, April 14-18, Chicago, IL.
Forehand, C., Fleener, M.J. (2007). Conversations across Cultures: Chinese and American Perspectives on Curriculum, Creativity, Culture and Conformity. AERA SIG-Educational Change, April 14-18, Chicago, IL.
Fleener, M.J., Carson, R., Smolen, J., Calderon, P., Exner, P.E., Callender, K. (2007). Children of Crisis: Merging Teaching, Research and Service Missions through Service Learning and Public Engagement. Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, March 14-16, New Orleans.
Fleener, M.J. (2007). The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics. Major Symposium, AACTE, February 24-28, New York City.
Fleener, M.J., Exner, P. (2007). Post-Katrina Educational Contexts: Creating a New Kind of College of Education. Individual Paper Presentation, AACTE, February 24-28, New York City.
Fleener, M.J., Forehand, C. (May, 2006). Creativity and Doll's Three S's: Songs Without End and Selves Without Boundary. Second World Curriculum Studies Conference, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Tempere, Finland.
Fleener, M.J., Richardson, K. (April, 2006). Creating Spaces for Learning to Teach: Nonlinear Unfoldings as Methods. Paper presentation to the AERA, Chaos and Complexity Theories SIG, San Francisco, CA.
Fleener, M.J., Forehand, C. (April, 2006). Creativity, Chaos, Complexity and Classrooms: A Journey. Paper presentation to the AERA, Chaos and Complexity Theories SIG, San Francisco, CA.
Fleener, M.J. (January, 2006). Leaving Colleges of Education Behind: Re-visioning Roles through Community Partnerships. Paper presentation to the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Smith, W., Fleener, M.J., Guarino, A.J. (January, 2006). Holding State Accountability Models Accountable: One Possible Means. Roundtable presentation to the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Annual Conference.
Invited Presentations
Fleener, M.J. (2007, April). Awakening Ideas and Creating Futures: Playing to Learn with Soft Eyes. The Association for the Study of Play 33rd Annual Conference, Rochester, NY.
Fleener, M.J. (2007, Jan.). Changing Contexts for Colleges of Education. Baton Rouge Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.
Fleener, M.J. (2006, Nov). Post-Katrina: College’s of Education Getting Down and Dirty. Presentation to the Southeast Regional Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Baltimore, MD.
Regional Presentations for National Organizations
Fleener, M.J. (2006, November 4). Katrina: Lessons learned about education. Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators.
Fleener, M.J. (2006, October). Creating Partnerships with Charter Schools: What are the Positives? Symposium presentation, Annual Meeting of the Council of Academic Deans from Research Institutions (CADREI), Savannah, GA.
TEACHING
Advising – Completed Master Projects – Chair -- Meng, Lingqi, (2007). Curriculum Theory, LSU.
RESEARCH AWARDS
Elected to the Professors of Curriculum, inducted 2006
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDS
Advisory Group for the joint project of AACTE and the National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA), 2006-2007
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, 2004-2007
Non-linear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences (NDPLS), 2005-2007
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
National and International
International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS)
American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS)
Society of Philosophy and History of Education (SOPHE)
Association of Curriculum and Pedagogy
National Council Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Research Council for Mathematics Learning (formerly RCDPM)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
American Education Research Association (AERA)
Philosophy of Education Society (PES)
Phi Delta Kappa (PDK)
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE)
State and Local
Louisiana Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (LACTE)
Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM)
Metropolitan Area Math Supervisors Consortium
Workshops, In-Services and Other Presentations
LSU GEAR-UP Collaborative Team Workshop, Colleges In Action, January, 2007.
LSU College of Education Faculty Research Brownbag, Reinventing colleges/schools of education, October 27, 2006
LSU Student Teaching/Interns, Educational Futures, Fall, 2006
East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Teach Baton Rouge, Teaching Complexly, Summer, 2006.
LSU Geaux Teach, Teaching Complexly, Summer, 2006
LSU Lab School, University High National Honor Society Induction, The History of America’s Future, Spring, 2006
LSU Student Teachers/Interns, Who Are Your Educational Heroes?, Spring, 2006
In the news
College of Education Raises More than $12K for United Way
Forever LSU Campaign Receives BP America Grant for Two New Baton Rouge High Schools
