Welcome to Professor Jeanette Rhedding-Jones’ homepage

Jeanette Rhedding-Jones har faglig bakgrunn og erfaring som barnehage- og småskolelærer i Australia. Hennes nåværende forskning gjelder barn og voksne i barnehage, i småskole og i førskolelærerutdanning. Hun har nå fokus på kritisk multikulturalisme, kjønnsproblematikk, lek, dokumentanalyse, literacy, språk og språkforståelse, diskurser og hverdagsliv. Rhedding-Jones har metodologisk erfaring med case-studier, etnografi, aksjonsforskning, intervju, diskursanalyse og dekonstrukturering.

On this homepage you can read or see photos and texts about Jeanette’s work. These include information about:

(1) Jeanette’s short CV 2007

(2) Jeanette’s selected publication list 2007

(3) Information about Jeanette’s current work in Norway and internationally 2007-2008

(4) Details in Norwegian about Jeanette’s graduate teaching in Oslo http://studiekatalog.hio.no/

(5) Additional information about two books in process 2007

(6) Jeanette’s 2005 book What is Research? Methodological Practices and New Approaches, published by Universitetsforlaget (Book Flyer link) (bookHiOweb) . 2 book reviews published in international refereed journals in UK and in Australia, about this book (link).

(7) Jeanette as leader of the host committee for the international conference held in Oslo in May 2004 about Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education  (RECE on HiO News)  (RECE Oslo Program ) (RECE photos)  <http://reconece.org/>  Her conference paper presented in New Zealand for this network is on RECE paper JRJ 22.5.04.

(8) Jeanette written up (in Norwegian) as ‘Norwegian Researcher of the Week’ April 2005 (JRJ-forsker.no)

(9) Jeanette’s speech and PowerPoint slides from February 2004, as winner of the Research and Development Prize awarded across the faculties at Oslo University College (FoU Prize JRJ)

(10) Jeanette’s PowerPoint slides ‘Critical multiculturalism: a short introduction’ presented 8.5.07 as an invited lecture given at IMD Integrerings-og mangfoldsdirektoratet (Norwegian Directorate for Integration and Diversity).

(11) Jeanette’s PowerPoint slides presented at invited Skriveseminar (Academic Writing Seminar, for academics across the Faculties) for the University of Stavanger, 29.3.07.

(12) Jeanette’s PowerPoints for invited seminar about ‘Poststructural theories and some of their effects’. Seminar presented in Halden, at the University College, 7.6.06.

(13) Information on HiO’s website about Jeanette getting Professorial Chair in Barnehagepedagogik (HiO-Velkommen til HiO  25.8.04) after having been Professor in Pedagogisk teori og praksis i Førskolelærerutdanning since May 2000.

(14) Information about The Reading Group, which meets one evening a month in Oslo to discuss academic readings recently published in English and useful for those doing Doctorates, applying to do Doctorates, presenting and publishing internationally in English. The Reading Group’s focus is early childhood education.

(15) Some of Jeanette’s published articles in international refereed journals 1995-2007 can be downloaded in full and printed out (but not copied) from the web on the following sites. These journals have websites as given below. If you are in Norway you might need to click on BIBSYS to get into them and download the articles. This is free of charge if your academic library has subscribed for you to do this. If they haven't, you might like to ask them to do so.

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Jeanette’s editorial co-written with Sue Greishaber is in 2005, volume 6, number 3. www.wwwords.co.uk/ciec You can read and print the full text of her articles (if your university pays a small sum of money to do this) published in 2002, volume 3, number1; and 2001 volume 2, number 1. In this journal Jeanette’s writing is about troubling identities, shifting ethnicities and critical multiculturalism.

Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, Jeanette’s guest editorial and co-authored article 2006 are in volume 13, number 1, which has 11 Norwegian authors published in English. She has also published autobiographically in 2005 in volume 12, number 2. Her article 2004, in volume 11, number 1 is about quality in early childhood education in Norway. www.education.monash.edu.au/research/arece/journal.html

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Jeanette’s article 2005, about higher education pedagogy in early childhood education at the Masters level, is in volume 21, number 3, with an editorial introduction to it written by Gaile Cannella and Radhika Viruru. www.jctbergamo.com

Journal of Curriculum Studies, Jeanette’s article 2002 is in volume 34, number 4. Her 1995 article, volume 27, number 5, in this journal is ‘too old’ to be on the web but it can be ordered from any academic library as a photocopy. Called ‘What do you do after you meet poststructuralism?’ this article is recommended. http://www.edu.uwo.ca/jcs/search.html

British Educational Research Journal. Jeanette’s invited thematic review 2004 is in volume 30, number 1. She reviews three books about early childhood education in USA, UK and Australia, and writes critically about gender, complexity and diversity. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01411926.asp

New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education, Jeanette’s article 2004, co-written with Norwegians, is in volume7 and is about partnerships in a research project for the Norwegian Research Council. http://www.childforum.com/  

Pedagogisk Forskning i Sverige (Educational Research in Sweden) Jeanette’s 2000 article results from her being the external examiner (within the Swedish genre of a two hour oral exam with an audience of over 100, on a Saturday) for the Doctoral thesis of Hillevi Lenz Taguchi in Stockholm. It is in volume 5, number 4. http://www.childforum.com/

Pedagogy, Culture and Society This 2000 essay review is written by editorial invitation. It critically regards a book about Foucault, history and physical education in schools: volume 8, number 2. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t716100719~tab=summary

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Jeanette sees this as her ‘best article’. She guesses the anonymous reviewers were Deborah Britzman and Patti Lather, because they have both asked her to keep writing more psychoanalytic theories of culture, which is what this article is about. Jeanette hasn’t (yet). The article is in Volume13, Number 3. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/tqse

Gender and Education This 1997 article is about doing a feminist poststructural Doctorate. It’s in volume 9, number 2. After writing it she was for some years an international consultant to the editorial board for this journal. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cgee/

Australian Educational Researcher  Jeanette’s article 1997, written as she was moving to Norway, is in Volume 24, Number 4. Noel Gough asked her to write an essay review, which is about gender and education across continents. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aare/aer/

British Journal of Sociology of Education Jeanette’s article is in volume 17, number one. This is still the only article she has had published without the reviewers wanting anything changed in it. They suggested she add ‘in an ethnography’ to the subtitle of the article, which she did. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cbse

Nordisk Pedagogik. Jeanette’s article 1996, published before she migrated to Norway but after she presented a related paper in Denmark at NFPF (Nordic Education Research Association), is in volume16, number 1. The article is about poststructural positionings and presents some Australian research. http://www.ped.gu.se/biorn/journal/nope/nope.html

Nora, Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies, Jeanette’s editorial is in a special edition on Gender and Education in the Nordic Countries: 2000, volume 3, number 8. Her book reviews published 1995, written by editorial invitation, are in volume 3, number 2. http://www.nikk.uio.no/publikasjoner/nora/

(16) Information about Jeanette’ book chapters in edited books published internationally can be found on the websites for the publishers. Sales are available on www. and Amazon Books.
SAGE: http://www.sagepub.com/allSageSearch.nav?_requestid=80648
Praeger http://www.praeger.com/catalog/AB6844.aspx
Routledge http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/search/search.asp  
Open University Press http://mcgrawhill.co.uk/cgibin/search_title_in_all.pl?by=title&user_input=critical%20issues
Universitetsforlaget http://www.universitetsforlaget.no/

(17) Some of Jeanette’s papers presented at conferences for the network Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) http://www.reconece.org/ can be downloaded in full and printed out (eg Arizona, 2003) Her Aoteoroa/New Zealand presentation for RECE 2006 is on http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/conference/item.php?id=94  

Jeanette’s conference papers presented in Australia at AARE 1991-2003 can be downloaded and read in full from the Australia Association for Research in Education 1991-2003 conference files http://www.aare.edu.au/confpap.htm:
http://www.aare.edu.au/03pap/rhe03254.pdf   (paper in Auckland NZ, 2003); http://www.aare.edu.au/02pap/rhe02408.htm
http://www.aare.edu.au/02pap/rhe02409.htm  (2 papers in Brisbane, 2002); http://www.aare.edu.au/00pap/rhe00001.htm  
http://www.aare.edu.au/00pap/rhe00020.htm  (2 papers in Sydney, 2000); http://www.aare.edu.au/98pap/rhe98122.htm (paper in Adelaide, 1998)  
http://www.aare.edu.au/95pap/rhedj95073.txt (paper in Hobart, 1995)
http://www.aare.edu.au/94pap/rhedj94377.txt   (paper in Newcastle, 1994)
http://www.aare.edu.au/91pap/rhedj91200.txt  (paper in Surfers Paradise) 

Her conference paper called ‘How to get a job in another country’, was presented 1999 at the International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women, held that year in Trømso Norway. It can be found in the section ‘Gendering work and the ecomony’.  (link). http:// www.skk.uit.no  and  http://www.skk.uit.no/oss/aarsmelding_99.html

(18) Jeanette’s publications in Norwegian are in:
Barnehagefolk, 2005, number 3; 2004, number 1; 2003, number1. www.pedagogiskforum.no
Første steg  2007 in press; 2005, number 4. (as@utdanningsakademiet.no)
Bedre skole 2005, number 4.  (bedreskole@utdanningsakademiet.no)
Universitetsforlaget 2007 in press. Chapter is Kritiske perspektiver på barnehagens rammeplan (curriculum) og nasjonale styringsdokumenter  (Critical perspectives on early childhood curriculum and national policy documents). In T. Moser and M. Röthle (eds) Ny rammeplan – ny barnehagepedagogikk? (New Curriculum – New Preschool Pedagogy?)Oslo Norway. www.universitetsforlaget.no