Dr. Valerie J Janesick
Valerie J. Janesick (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. She teaches classes in Qualitative Research Methods, Curriculum Theory and Inquiry, Foundations of Curriculum, Issues in Curriculum, Ethics and Educational Leadership. Her text, Stretching Exercises for Qualitative Researchers 2nd edition, (2004) Sage Publications, includes ways to integrate the arts in qualitative research projects. She is working...See more
Valerie J. Janesick (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. She teaches classes in Qualitative Research Methods, Curriculum Theory and Inquiry, Foundations of Curriculum, Issues in Curriculum, Ethics and Educational Leadership. Her text, Stretching Exercises for Qualitative Researchers 2nd edition, (2004) Sage Publications, includes ways to integrate the arts in qualitative research projects. She is working on a 3rd edition at the moment to add the technology connections and the use of poetry to represent interview data. Her writings have been published in Curriculum Inquiry, Qualitative Inquiry, Anthropology and Education Quarterly and other major journals. Her chapters in the Handbook of Qualitative Research 1st edition and 2nd editions use Dance and the Arts as a metaphor for understanding research. She is completing oral history interviews of female school superintendents as part of a larger project on women leaders. Her recent chapter on Dewey and the arts and education can be found in the Sage (2007) Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Inquiry: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issues. Her latest book is Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story, Guilford Press (2010). See less
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