M. Jayne Fleener
	Degrees	Recent Publications and Presentations
	Research Interests	Grants
	Courses Commonly Taught	Professional Links

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Degrees

BA	Philosophy	Indiana University	Bloomington
MA	Philosophy	University of North Carolina	Chapel Hill
MAT	Mathematics	University of North Carolina	Chapel Hill
Ph.D.	Mathematics Education	University of North Carolina	Chapel Hill

Research Interests

Understanding the complexity of the mathematics learning environment, including understanding the dynamic relationships in the classroom, how children learn mathematics, and teacher change.

Courses Commonly Taught

Undergraduate Courses
Intermediate and Middle School Mathematics Methods, 4-8
Fundamental Concepts and Methods of Teaching Mathematics, 7-12

Graduate Courses
Theory and Research in Mathematics Education
Theoretical Issues in Instructional Leadership & Academic Curriculum (ILAC 6023)	Syllabus
History of Mathematics for Educators
Systems Theory and Learning Organizations (EDMA 6163)	Summer 2000- Syllabus
Systems Theory and Learning Organizations (EDMA 6163)	Spring 2001- Syllabus
Systems Theory and Learning Organizations (EDMA 6163)	Summer 2002 - Syllabus
Middle School and Secondary Mathematics Curriculum: Theory and Research	Spring 2002 - Syllabus
The Use of Technology in the Teaching of Mathematics (EDMA 5973)	Syllabus
Technology and Classroom Instruction (ILAC 5960)	Syllabus

Recent Publications and Presentation

Publications Since 1997

Books:

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2002). Curriculum dynamics: Recreating heart. New York: Peter Lang.

Articles:

Ø Fleener, M.J., Reeder, S., Young, E. & Reynolds, A. (in press). Unfolding Mathematical Experience through On-going study of the history of mathematics. Action in Teacher Education.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Carter, A. & Reeder, S. (in press). Language games in the mathematics classroom: Learning a way of life. Journal of Curriculum Studies

Ø Fleener, M.J. & Reeder, S. (in press). Teaching etcetera. In M. Evans & G. Allan (Eds.), The New Three R’s of Education.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Adolphson, K., Reeder, S. (2002). Robotics activities and constructed problem solving: Creating spaces for learning/doing. PME.

Ø Carter, A. & Fleener, M.J. (2002). Exploring the teacher’s role in developing autonomy. PME-NA.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Dupree, G. D. (2002). Autobiosophy through Gynocritical Inquiry: Exploring Women’s Ideas about Mathematics, Power, and Community. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2002). Logical Foundations for an Organocentric Curriculum: Dewey’s Logic and Complexity Sciences. In W. Doll & N. Gough, (Eds.), Curriculum Visions. Peter Lang Publishers

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2001). Educational Standards and High Stakes Testing: Changing Ways of See-As. Process Papers, 6 (December, 2001), pp. 19-37. Association for Process Philosophy of Education.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2001). The Language Games of Science and Philosophy: Bridges Rather than Anchors A Response to Science Education: Constructing a True View of the Real World? In Stone, L. (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2000, Urbana-Champaign, IL: PES, 378-382.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (1999). Toward a poststructural mathematics curriculum: Expanding discursive possibilities, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 15(2), pp. 89-105.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Rodgers, D. B. (1999).A Systems Theoretic Approach to Understanding Transformation in Learning Communities. Journal of Thought.

Ø Pourdavood, R. G. & Fleener, M. J. (1998).The Ecology of a Dialogic Community as a Socially Constructive Process.Teaching Education.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Fry, P. G. (1998).Adaptive Teacher Beliefs for Continued Professional Growth During Postmodern Transitions.In D. J. McIntyre & D.M. Byrd (Eds.),Strategies for Career-Long Teacher Education: Teacher Education Yearbook VI, pp. 154-167, Thousands Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Ø Fry, P. G. & Fleener, M. J. (1997).An analysis of teacher-class interaction metaphors.The Journal of Classroom Interaction, 32(1), 30-35..

Ø Pourdavood, R. G. & Fleener, M. J.(1997).Impact of a Dialogic Community on the Development of Classroom Sociocultural Norms. Journal for a Just and Caring Education 3(4), 399-417.

Ø Fleener, M. J., Donaldson, G. D., & Craven, L. D. (1997).Exploring and changing visions of mathematics teaching and learning: What do students think?Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 9(1), 40-43.

Ø Pourdavood, R. G. & Fleener, M. J. (1997).Evolution of a Dialogic Community and Teacher Change.The School Community Journal, 7(1), pp. 51-61.

Ø Pourdavood, R. G. & Fleener, M. J. (1997).Sustaining Cultures of Teaching for Liberatory Mathematics Education.Psychology of Mathematics Education - North American Chapter.

Presentations Since 1997

Ø Fleener, M.J., Reynolds, A., Reeder, S., Cassel, D., Adolphson, K. (2003, March). Emergent curriculum: Classroom cultures, argumentation, and technology. Annual Meeting of the Research Council for Mathematics Learning, Arizona State University.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Flournoy, V., Clift, K., Reynolds, A., Olson, J. (2003, March). What is mathematics? Annual Meeting of the Research Council for Mathematics Learning, Arizona State University.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Adolphson, K., Reeder, S. (2002). Robotics activities and constructed problem solving: Creating spaces for learning/doing. PME.

Ø Carter, A. & Fleener, M.J. (2002). Exploring the teacher’s role in developing autonomy. PME-NA.

Ø Fleener, M. J. (2002, March). Vico’s New Science and the pedagogy of myth: Poetic logic and the curriculum. Paper presentation for the first annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2001, November). Keynote presentations to the Luhmann Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.

o Chaos and Complexity – Session I

o Chaos and the Curriculum – Session II

o New Science and Postmodern Logics – Session III

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2001, October). Curriculum dynamics and postmodern logics: An ‘Erwartungshorizonten’ of emergent curriculum. 2001 Journal of Curriculum Theory Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, October 26-28, Dayton, Ohio.

Ø Fleener, M.J. & Carter, A. (2001, October). Emerging socio-autonomy in the language games of classrooms. 2001 Journal of Curriculum Theory Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, October 26-28, Dayton, Ohio.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2001, August). Is Chaos Research Normal Science?: Logical Foundations of Postmodern Inquiry. 11^th Annual International Conference for the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences. August 3-6, Madison, WI.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Ingram, A, Brown, C. (2001, March). The challenges of collaboration: GEAR UP partnerships cutting across institutional and organizational barriers. American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 1-4.

Ø Fleener, M.J., Reeder, S., Young, E., & Reynolds, A. (2001, March). History of mathematics: Building relationships for learning. Research Council for Mathematics Learning Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2000, April). Research Paradigms for Chaos and Complexity.AERA, New Orleans, April 24-28.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2000, April). Dewey’s Logic and Social Autopoiesis: Creative Forces for/of Social (R)evolution.AERA, New Orleans, April 24-28.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2000, April).Creativity, Emergence and Transactional Spaces: An Organocentric Curriculum for Supporting Chaotic Cognition.The Second International Conference on the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 28-30.

Ø Fleener, M. J. (2000, April).From Clocks to Chaos: Changing Perceptions of Nature.Presentation accepted to the 78th Annual Meeting of the NCTM, Chicago, IL, April 13-15.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (2000, March).The Organocentric Curriculum: Learning and Assessment in Dynamic Learning Communities.Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Research Council for Mathematics Learning, Las Vegas, NV, March 9-11.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (1999, October). Dewey’s Logic, Complexity Theories, and the Curriculum: The Intricacies of Relationship, Process, and Change.Paper for the Annual Meeting of the 1999 JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Bergamo Conference Center, Dayton, Ohio, October 27-30, 1999.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (1999, March).Chaos and complex adaptive systems: An organocentric perspective of the curriculum.Curriculum Theory Project Preconference Session of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES), LSU.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (1999, February).Returning to origins – Dia-Among-Gnosis-Understanding: Diagnosing classrooms as complex learning systems.The 26th Annual Meeting of the Research Council of Mathematics Learning (formerly RCDPM), February 11-13, College Station, Tx.

Ø Fleener, M.J. (1998, October).A Poststructural Approach to Understanding and Reconstructing School Mathematics,Journal of Curriculum Theory Conference (Bergamo), Bloomington, IN.

Ø Fleener, M. J. (1998, February). Learners As Complex Adaptive Agents: Implications for Mathematics Education Research in the Future, Research Council for Diagnostic and Prescriptive Mathematics, College Park, Maryland.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Brintnall, S.(1998, February). Using Time Series Analyses to Understand the Complexity of the Classroom With Regard to Mathematics Instruction, Sociocultural Norms, and Sociomathematical Norms. Research Council for Diagnostic and Prescriptive Mathematics, College Park, Maryland. (under review)

Ø Pourdavood, R. G. & Fleener, M. J. (1997, October).Sustaining Cultures of Teaching for Liberatory Mathematics Education.Psychology of Mathematics Education - North American Chapter, Bloomington/Normal, IL, October 18-20, 1997..

Ø Fleener, M. J. (1997, October).G. H. Mead’s Action Theory and Maturana’s Systems Theory:Constructivism as a Philosophy to Inform and Create Learning Environments.JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Bloomington, IN, October 15-18, 1997.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Laird, S. (1997, October).An Eco-Feminist Dialogue:Re-Valuation of the Epistemological Foundations of Mathematics and Education. JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Bloomington, IN, October 15-18, 1997.

Ø Fleener, M. J. (1997, April).From Zeno to Mandelbrot:Activities from the history of mathematics.Presentation to the 75th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Minneapolis, MN.

Ø Fleener, M. J. & Pourdavood, R. G. (1997, March).School Reform:Establishing dialogic communities as self-organizing structures for reflection, critique, and change.Paper presentation to the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Grants

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Title II Eisenhower Grant, 1999, Programmatic Professional Partnerships (P3): Professional Development through Multi-networked Collaborative Inquiry and Graduate Work in Mathematics Education, PD, (PI Jim Gardner), $212,890, three years
Hitachi Corporation, 1999, Internet-based Training for Teachers to Develop and Implement Multimedia Technologies, Co-PI, (with Kurt Gramoll, Engineering), $253,497, five years.
U.S. Department of Education, Gear-Up for Success in College, (Alan Ingram , Oklahoma City Schools, PI/PD), University of Oklahoma Partner Representative, initial award of $9,769,085 (subcontract rate for OU about $150,000/ year).
U.S. Department of Education, 1999-2003, Sooner Counts, PI, (multiple funding sources including approximately $50,000/ year from US Department of Education Work Study with an additional funding from OU Student Senate, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, OU College of Education, and OU Financial Aid).
SMARTer Kids PREP Grant for SMART Products, (PD), $1748 (with additional funding of $750 from the College of Education Technology Committee).

Professional Links

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State & National Agencies	Mathematics Links
Research Links, Journals & Newspapers	Tools & Resources
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