Dr. Mindy Blaise | | Associate Professor | Dr. Mindy Blaise . | B.S. (Elementary Education) Texas A&M University M.A. (Curriculum & Instruction) Seattle University MEd (Curriculum & Instruction, ECE) Columbia University EdD (Curriculum & Instruction, ECE) Columbia University | Office: | B2-1/F-06 | Tel: | 7951 | Email: | blaise@ied.edu.hk | | Research Interest(s): | - Curriculum & Instruction
- Genders/sexualities
- Postfoundational theories (postdevelopmentalism, poststructuralism, posthumanism)
| | | Research / Projects Jan / 2012 | | Global childhoods: Portraits of living and learning in Asia in the 21st Century | | | | Jan / 2012 | | Researching postcolonial childhoods across Hong Kong, Australia, and Canada with Affrica Taylor and Miriam Giugni, Canberra University, AUS; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabow and Sylvia Kind, University of Victoria, Canada; Lesley Instone, University of Newcastle, AUS. | | | | Jan / 2010 | | Professional Learning Program: Contemporary Child Development Theory | | Jan / 2009 | | Beyond tourism: Singaporean/Australian early childhood educational research relationships | | Jan / 2009 | | Evaluation of Early Start Kindergarten Partnerships | | Jan / 2008 | | Generating multiage pedagogies with the City of Melbourne’s early childhood teachers | | Jan / 2007 | | Engaging with early childhood scholars to reconceptualise practice | | Jan / 2007 | | Leading Professional Learning | | Jan / 2006 | | Exploring post-developmental pedagogies in early childhood: A case study of how 7 early childhood teachers are transforming practice | | Jan / 2006 | | Investigating the experiences amongst stakeholders in family grouping models in the City of Melbourne | | Jan / 2006 | | Provision of Expert Research and Advisory Panel to Support the Literacy, Numeracy, and Special Needs | | Jan / 2006 | | Sex and relationships education: A healthy subject? | | Jan / 2006 | | Young children’s understandings of gender and sexuality | | Jan / 2001 | | Provocations and possibilities in early childhood teacher education | | Jan / 2000 | | Challenging gender in the classroom….with young children. | | Jan / 2000 | | Developing research relationships with teachers | | Jan / 2000 | | Locating, sustaining, and disrupting gender discourses: A feminist poststructuralist study of gender in two kindergarten classrooms | | Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters Research book or monograph | 2013 | | Brooker, L., Edwards, S. & Blaise, M. (Eds.) (Forthcoming, 2013, August). The SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning. London: SAGE Publishers. | | | | 2013 | | Blaise, M. & Nuttall, J. (Forthcoming, June 2013). Teaching across the early years, 2nd ed. Melbourne: Oxford. | | | | 2012 | | Taylor, A., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Blaise, M. (Eds). (forthcoming; 2012, June). Relating childhood to the more-than-human world. Special Issue, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. | | 2011 | | Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., and Malone, K. (in press). Learning to teach: New times, New practices. 2nd Rev. Ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. & Nuttall, J. (2010). Teaching across the early years. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2007 | | Taylor, A. & Blaise, M. (Eds.) (2007). International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood: Special Queer Issue, 5 (2), The Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Melbourne University. | | 2006 | | Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., Malone, K., and Lang, J. (2006). Learning to teach: New times, New practices. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005). Playing it straight!: Uncovering gender discourses in the early childhood classroom. NY: Routledge Press. | | | Chapter in an edited book | 2013 | | Blaise, M. (forthcoming, 2013). Gender, sexuality, and play. In L. Brooker, S. Edwards, & M. Blaise, (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning. London: SAGE Publications. | | | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (in press). Activating micropolitical practices in the early years. In R. Coleman & J. Ringrose (Eds) Deleuze and Research Methodsologies, Deleuze Connections Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. & Ryan, S. (in press). Using critical theory to trouble the early childhood curriculum: Is it enough? In N. File, J. Mueller, & D. Wisneski (Eds.) Curriculum in Early Childhood: Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed, NY: Routledge. | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (in press). Inclusive practices. In Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., J. Faulkner, and K. Malone. Learning to teach: New times, New practices. 2nd Rev. Ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (in press). Worldviews of teachers. In Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., and K. Malone. Learning to teach: New times, New practices. 2nd Rev. Ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (in press). Teachers as theory makers. In Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., and Malone, K. Learning to teach: New times, New practices. 2nd Rev. Ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010). Designing to scale: When size matters. In G. MacNaughton, S. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.), Doing early childhood research: Theory and practice.An international perspective, 2nd Ed. (pp. 209-219). NY: Allen & Unwin. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010). Creating a postdevelopmental logic for mapping gender and sexuality in early childhood. In S. Edwards & L. Brooker (Eds.) Engaging play (pp. 80-95). Buckingham: Open University Press. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009). Infant care and sexuality. In T. Cooke (Ed.), Sex and Society Encyclopedia. London: Brown Reference Group. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009). Parenting roles and sexuality. In T. Cooke (Ed.), Sex and Society Encyclopedia. London: Brown Reference Group. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009). Revolutionising practice by doing early childhood politically. In S. Edwards & J. Nuttall (Eds.) Professional Learning in Early Childhood Settings (pp. 27-47). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007). Gender & equity: An Australian perspective, In R.S. New & M. Cochran (Eds.), Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia. Volume 4, The Countries, (pp. 906-908). MA: Greenwood Publishing Company. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M. (2006). Those who are in, those who are out, and those who are seldom seen. In Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., Malone, K., and Lang, J. Learning to teach: New times, new practices (pp. 66-95). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M. (2006). Teachers as theory makers. In Latham, G., Blaise, M., Dole, S., Faulkner, J., Malone, K., and Lang, J. Learning to teach: New times, new practices (pp. 96-138). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. | | 2006 | | Blaise Ochsner, M. (2006). Developing reciprocity in a multimethod small scale research study. In G. Mac Naughton, S. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.), Doing early childhood research: Theory and practice. An international perspective. (Chinese language version). Beijing: Educational Science Publishing House. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. & Andrew, Y. (2005). How ‘bad’ can it be?: Troubling gender, sexuality, and teaching in early childhood education. In N. Yelland (Ed.) Critical Issues in Early Childhood (pp.49-57). Berkshire, UK: Open University Press. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005). Performing femininities through gender discourses. In. B.B. Swadener & L. Diaz Soto (Eds.) Power and Voice in Research with Children (pp.105-116). NY: Peter Lang. | | 2005 | | Ryan, S., Ochsner (Blaise), M., & Genishi, C. (2005). Miss Nelson is missing!: Teacher sightings in research on teaching. In S. Grieshaber & G. Cannella (Coordinadoras). Las identidades en la educacion temprana: Diversidad y posibilidades. (Traduccion J.J. Utrilla). Fondo De Cultura Economica: Mexico. | | 2001 | | Genishi, C., Ryan, S., Ochsner (Blaise), M., & Yarnell, M.M. (2001). Teaching in early childhood education: Understanding practices through research and theory. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching (4th ed.). (pp. 1175-1210) Washington D.C.: American Educational Research Association. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001). Developing reciprocity in a multimethod small scale research study. In G. Mac Naughton, S. Rolfe, & I. Siraj-Blatchford (Eds.), Doing early childhood research: Theory and process. An international perspective. NY: Allen & Unwin. | | 2001 | | Ryan, S., Ochsner (Blaise), M., & Genishi, C. (2001). Miss Nelson is missing!: Teacher sightings in research on teaching. In S. Grieshaber & G. Canella (Eds.), Embracing identities in early childhood education: Diversity and possibilities. NY: Teachers College Press. | | | Journal Publications Refereed Journal Article | 2012 | | Blaise, M., Leung, V. & Sun, CR (in progress). (Re)considering literacy activities in a Hong Kong kindergarten. | | | | 2012 | | Taylor, A. & Blaise, M. (in progress). Playing like a dog: Working to derail humanism. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M., Leung, V. & Sun, CR (in progress). (Re)considering literacy activities in a Hong Kong kindergarten. | | | | 2012 | | Bone, J. & Blaise, M. (under review). Live export: Prisoners, children, animals, and other posthuman connections. | | | | 2012 | | Yelland, N., Blaise, M., Andrew, Y., Chan, C. (under review). “We spend more time with the children than they do…”: Living and working as a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong. | | | | 2012 | | Taylor, A., Blaise, M. & Giugni, M. (2012). Haraway’s ‘bag lady story-telling’: Relocating childhood and learning within a ‘post-human landscape’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 34(1), 1-15 iFirst article. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M. & Taylor, A. (2012). Research in review: A queer eye for early childhood. Young Children. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010). Kiss and Tell: Gendered narratives and childhood sexuality. Special Sexualities Issue: Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 35(1), 1-9. | | 2009 | | Edwards, S., Blaise, M., & Hammer, M. (2009). Beyond developmentalism: Early childhood teachers’ understandings of multi-age grouping in early childhood education and care. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 34, (4), pp. 55-63. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009). What a girl wants, what a girl needs: Responding to sex, gender, and sexuality in the early childhood classroom. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 23 (4), pp. 450-460. | | 2007 | | Taylor, A. Blaise, M. & Robinson, K. (2007). Making trouble: A conversation about departing from the straight and narrow in early childhood. International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 5 (2) pp. 32-46. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. & Elsden-Clifton, J. (2007). Intervening or ignoring: Learning about teaching in new times. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (4), 387-407. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007). Show-and-tell: Showing power and telling gender. Redress: Journal of the Association of Women Educators, 16 (1), 28-32. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005). A feminist poststructuralist study of children ‘doing’ gender. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 20 (1) 85-108. | | 1999 | | Ochsner, M. (1999). Gendered make-up. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, (1), 2, 209-213. | | 1999 | | Ryan, S. & Ochsner, M. (1999). Traditional practices, new possibilities: Transforming dominant images of early childhood teachers. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, (24), 4, 14-20. | | | Non-refereed Article | 2009 | | Berry, A., Blaise, M., Clemans, A., Loughran, J. Mitchell, J., Parr, G., Riley, P., Robb, D. (Eds.). (2009). Leading professional learning: Cases of professional dilemmas, Volume II. Melbourne, Australia: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009). Privileging teacher knowledge. In Berry, A., Blaise, M., Clemans, A., Loughran, J. Mitchell, J., Parr, G., Riley, P., Robb, D. (Eds.). Leading professional learning: Cases of professional dilemmas, Volume II. Melbourne, Australia: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. | | 2008 | | Andrew, Y. & Blaise, M. (2008). The role of men in children’s play. Every Child, 14, (4), p. 15. | | 2008 | | Berry, A., Blaise, M., Clemans, A., Loughran, J. Mitchell, J., Parr, G., Riley, P., Robb, D. (Eds.). (2008). Leading professional learning: Cases of professional dilemmas. Melbourne, Australia: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M. (2006). Contextualising early childhood education. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, (31), 3, (ii). | | | Conference Papers Refereed Conference Paper | 2013 | | Blaise, M. (under review). Troubling strange trans-species encounters in the postcolonial contact zone. Paper submitted for review to the SIG: Postcolonial Perspectives as part of the proposed symposium, “Working with Posthumanist Perspectives to Reconfigure Postcolonial Childhoods and Pedagogies”, with M. Giugni, V. Pacini-Ketchabow, & M. Somerville, & A. Taylor. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April/May 2013. | | | | 2013 | | Blaise, M. & Bone, J. (under review). A Posthuman Perspective on Ethical Responsibility: Using ‘Live export’ as a Provocation for Early Years Teachers. Submitted to the SIG: Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April/May 2013. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M., (2012, April). De-colonizing and de-westernizing gender in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-17, 2012. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M. (2012, April). Activating micropolitical practices in the early years: (Re)assembling participant observations. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Doing Deleuze: Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies in Education”, with B. Colemen, J. Ringrose, E. Renold, D. Mellor, A., Jackson, L. Mazzei, Masny, & M. MacLure, American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-17, 2012. | | | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (2011, October). Grappling with contact zones of species assemblages: dogs/humans, children/adults’, as part of the symposium, Working with Haraway: Towards a collective ethics and politics of care. International Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education Conference, East London University, London, UK. | | | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (2011, April). ‘Racing’ and ‘classing’ gender and sexuality research in early childhood. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium, Problematising the sexualisation of girls discourse: beyond the moral panic?, with J. Ringrose, E. Renold, C. Charles, Gender and Education Conference, Essex, UK. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010, November). Exploring the extra/ordinary: Activating micro-political practices in the early years. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Extra/ordinary challenges: Childhoods, globalisation and education in the 21st Century, with N. Yelland, S. Salmarsh, S. Grieshaber, S. & A. Taylor. The Australian Association of Research in Education, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010, July). Becoming girl/dog: How a Deluzian/Guattarian-inspired logic works in the early years classroom. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Critical engagements: Play, pedagogy and participation, with J. Ailwood, S. Grieshaber, & S. Rogers. Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association, Hangzhou, China. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010, May). The (im)possibilities of researching gender and sexualities in early childhood education. Paper presented at the Early Childhood Education and Development SIG, American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO. | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. & Taylor, A., (2010, May) Working like a dog: Derailing humanism. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Embodying Deleuze in early childhood, with J. Bone, C. Cervoni, A. Hickey-Moody. G. Ivenson, E. Renold, & D. Youdell. Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO. | | 2009 | | Taylor, A., & Blaise, M. (2009, July). Becoming worldly: Dog-girls. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Hope as desiring to become otherwise, with G. Dahlberg, L. M. Olsson, M. Giugni, Z. Milleiu at the International Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education Conference, Bethlehem, Israel. | | 2008 | | Ryan, S. & Blaise, M. (2008, November). Teaching images: Is it time to reinvent what it means to teach young children? Paper presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference. Dallas, Texas, November 5 – 8, 2008. | | 2008 | | Andrew, Y., Blaise, M., Houghton, A., Hydon, C., Newman, B., Rundle, D., Sheehan, M. (2008, October). Standing tall: Doing early childhood leadership and advocacy. Paper presented at the Early Childhood Australia National Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, October 3-6, 2008. | | 2008 | | Taylor, A., Blaise, M., & Gunn, A. (2008, October). Queer theory and early childhood? Paper presented at the Early Childhood Australia National Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, October 3-6, 2008. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. (2008, September). Desirable research?: Reworking g sexualities research in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association National Conference, Edinburgh, UK. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. (2008, September). Desirable research?: Re-imagining sexualities research in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Problematising the methodological terrain: The limits and possibilities of poststructural ethnographic research on young non/normative sexualities in educational settings, with E. Renold, D. Youdell & J. Ringrose, J. Sexualities SIG: British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, UK. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. & Edwards, S. (2008, March). Researching with young children, families, and teachers: Some practical approaches. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New York, New York, March 23-28, 2008. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. & Ryan, S. (2007, November). Gender equity strategies: Why are they still needed? Paper presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois, November 7 – 10, 2007. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007, March). Queering the straight subject in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented at the Gender and Education Conference. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, March 27-30, 2007. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M., Taylor, A., & Robinson, K. (2006, November). Queering early childhood education. Symposium presented at the 14th Annual Reconceptualising Early Childhood Teaching, Research, and Practice Conference. Rotorua, New Zealand, November 24-30, 2006. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M., Edwards, S. & Hammer, M. (2006, November). Troubling early childhood teachers, researchers and early childhood professionals about conducting collaborative research with children and families Paper presented at the Honoring the child, honouring equity 6: Cultures, challenges, and changes in troubling times Centre for Equity and Innovation Conference, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia. November 16-18, 2006. | | 2006 | | Blaise, M. (2006, April). “Going to the dogs”: Re-imagining discourses of gender and sexuality in the kindergarten classroom. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005, October). Queer pedagogies for the early years. Paper presented at the conference Schooling and Sexualities Conference: Ten Years On. Deakin University, Melbourne University. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005, April). Uncovering the heterosexual matrix in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. | | 2004 | | Blaise, M. (2004, November). What do we show and what do we tell?: Gender performances in a kindergarten classroom. Paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Conference, Pushing the boundaries for change, honouring the child, honouring equity: 4. The University of Melbourne, Australia. | | 2003 | | Blaise, M. & Andrew, Y. (2003, April). How bad can it be?: Troubling gender, sexuality, and early childhood teaching. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. | | 2003 | | Blaise, M. (2003, April). Getting “unstuck”: Complicating gender in early childhood. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. | | 2002 | | Blaise, M. & Andrew, Y. (2002, November). Being “bad”: Subverting early childhood Practices. Paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Conference, Honoring the child, honoring equity 2: Risking change to make a difference, The University of Melbourne, Australia. | | 2002 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M & Ryan, S. (2002, November). Traditional practices, new possibilities: Rethinking the purposes of curriculum strategies and materials in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's 2002 Annual Conference, New York, New York. | | 2002 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2002, April). Locating, regulating, and challenging gender discourses with(in) early childhood curricula. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001, November). Cultural challenges for gender equity. Paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Conference Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. & Ryan, S. (2001, November). Children’s gendered play: Challenging old ideas and sexist assumptions. Paper presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s 2001 Annual Conference, Anaheim, California. | | 2001 | | Ryan, S., Genishi, C, Lobman, C, & Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001, October). Power plays: Multiple readings from popular and school cultures. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Reconceptualizing Research, Theory, and Practice in Early Childhood Education Conference, New York, New York. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001, April). Crossing gender borders and blurring gender boundaries: A case study of gender-bending in an urban kindergarten classroom. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. | | 2000 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2000, November). Equal opportunity for all?: Examining both the potential and limitations for children’s social learning during free play with respect to gender issues. Paper presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s 2000 Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. | | 2000 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2000, April). Seductions and temptations: How gender influences research methods. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. | | 2000 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2000, April). Girldom, boydom, queendom, kingdom: Rethinking gender research and practice in early childhood education. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. | | 1999 | | Ochsner (Blaise) M. (1999, October). Gender-bending as social action: Possibilities and limitations of gender-bending. Paper presented at the Research on Women and Education 25th Annual Conference: A Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. | | 1999 | | Mac Naughton, G. & Ochsner (Blaise), M. (1999, June). Seeking power: The politics of feminisms in early childhood education. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Reconceptualizing Research, Theory, and Practice in Early Childhood Education Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. | | 1999 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (1999, April). Something rad and risqué: A post-structural feminist study of gender in an urban kindergarten classroom. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. | | 1998 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. & Bailey, C. (1998, June). Resisting the simplistic: Employing research and theory to re-imagine early childhood education. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. | | 1998 | | Ochsner, M (Blaise)., Ryan, S., & Genishi, C. (1998, January). Cultural images in research on teaching: Questioning dominant representations of early childhood teachers. Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Reconceptualizing Research, Theory, and Practice in Early Childhood Education Conference, Honolulu, HI. | | 1997 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. & Ryan, S. (1997, October). Feminisms and teaching: The ambiguities of working within a female dominated profession. Paper presented at the conference of Feminism and the Academy: Building Bridges to the World Outside, Columbia University, New York, NY. | | 1996 | | Malter, M., Ochsner (Blaise), M., Ryan, S. & Genishi, C. (1996, October). Representations of Children: Resisting Simplicity. Paper presented at the conference of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education: 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Madison, WI. | | 1996 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. & Fassler, R. (1996, October). Is power beside the point, or is it the point? A closer look at the call to integrate conflict resolution programs into early childhood classrooms. Paper presented at the conference of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education: 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Madison, WI. | | | Other Conference Paper | 2012 | | Blaise, M. (2012, August). ‘Good’ sons and daughters in Hong Kong: What this tells us about gender and sexuality. Invited presentation at the Department of Early Childhood, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M. LEUNG, V., & SUN, C.R. (2012, August). Insider/outsider perspectives of researching literacy activities in a Hong Kong kindergarten. Invited presentation as part of the Global Childhoods Collective Symposium, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. | | | | 2012 | | Blaise, M. (2012, July). Let’s talk: Dialoguing about gender and sexuality as a method for deimperialization. Invited research presentation at the annual Pacific Early Childhood Research Association Conference. Singapore. | | | | 2011 | | Blaise, M. (2011, July). Developing a diffractive methodology. Invited research seminar presented to the Furthering Early Childhood Education and Learning Research Group, Peninsula Campus, Monash University, Australia. | | | | 2010 | | Blaise, M. (2010, September). Postdevelopmentalism: What is it and why is it necessary? Invited research seminar presented as part of a postgraduate seminar series at the University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, November). Doing risky work: The significance of taking a political and ethical stance towards heteronormativity. Invited keynote address to launch the publication of R. DePalma & E. Atkinson’s (Eds.) Interrogating heteronormativity in primary schools: The no outsiders project. Hosted by the Institute of Education, University of London, UK | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, November). The (im)possiblities of researching gender and sexualities in the early years. Invited research seminar for the Childhood and Gender/sexualities Research group at Cardiff University, UK. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, October). Mapping moments of resistance in gender and sexuality research in the early years. Invited research seminar for the Gender/sexualities Special Interest Group, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, October). Developing a Deleuzian/Guattarian-inspired postdevelopmental logic in the early years. Invited research seminar to be presented at Froebel School of Education, Roehampton University, co-hosted by the Centre for Early Childhood Research and the Centre for Equality, Politics and Policy. Roehampton University, London, UK. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, October). Developing proactive pedagogies in the early years. Invited research seminar presented at the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway. | | 2009 | | Blaise, M. (2009, May). Research design as personal and political. Invited research presentation to address postgraduate research students. Hosted by the Monash Educational Research Community, Monash University. | | 2008 | | Peers, C. & Blaise, M. (2008, October). Australian Early Development Index: Brave new world? Invited presentation at the symposium, Interrogating the AEDI, sponsored by the Furthering Early Childhood Research and Learning Research Group at Monash University. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. (2008, September). So sexy, so cool: Exploring young children’s understandings of gender and sexuality in the early childhood classroom. Invited research seminar at the Froebel School of Education Research Seminar Series, Roehampton University, London, UK. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. (2008, July). Researching with early childhood teachers: Some possibilities. Invited to present community-based research at the Connections and Collaborations Research Forum, Monash University. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007, May). Engaging with sexualities in early childhood. Invited keynote address given at the Social Justice in Early Childhood Conference, University of Western Sydney, May 12, 2007. | | 2003 | | Blaise, M. (2003, April). “What a girl wants, what a girl needs…”: Kindergarten girls tell it like it is. Invited paper presented at the SIG: Early Education and Child Development Business Meeting at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. | | 2002 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2002, June). After locating gender in the early childhood classroom, now what?: Possible actions and interventions. Invited keynote address presented at the Annual Geelong Kindergarten Teachers' and Assistants’ Association, Geelong, Australia. | | 2002 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2002, May). Researching gender in early childhood classrooms. Invited paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Research Seminar Series. University of Melbourne, Australia. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001, November). Reflections on using feminist poststructuralism as a conceptual framework for analysing data. Invited paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Postgraduate Research Seminar Series. University of Melbourne, Australia. | | 2001 | | Ochsner (Blaise), M. (2001, November). Supporting social action through teaching and researching in the early childhood classroom. Invited paper presented at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood Postgraduate Research Seminar Series. University of Melbourne, Australia. | | | Conference Proceeding (Refereed) | 2004 | | Blaise, M. (2004, November). The heterosexual matrix exposed!: Critically examining how gender influences research. Paper presented and published in conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2004 | | Blaise, M., Dole, S., Latham, G., Malone, K., Faulkner, J., Lang, J. (2004, November). Rethinking reflective journals in teacher education. Paper presented and published in conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2004 | | Latham, G., Faulkner, J., Dole, S., Blaise, M., Malone, K., & Lang, J. (2004, November). The Virtual Classroom as a Pedagogical Space in Pre-service Teacher Education . Paper presented and published in conference proceedings Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2004 | | Blaise, M., Dole, S., Latham, G., Malone, K., Faulkner, J., Lang, J. (2004, July). Reconstructing reflective journals in teacher education. Published conference proceedings Australian Teacher Education Association Conference. Bathurst, NSW, Australia. | | 2004 | | Latham, G., Blaise, M., Malone, K. Dole, S., Faulkner, J., & Lang, J. (2004, July). New learning in teacher education programs. Published conference proceedings Australian Teacher Education Association Conference. Bathurst, NSW, Australia. | | Conference Proceeding (Non-refereed) | 2012 | | Blaise, M. Leung, V. & Sun, CR. (in progress). Literacy activities in a Hong Kong kindergarten. Unpublished research report to the LKW Kindergarten. Hong Kong. | | | Creative & Literary Works, Reports and Published Teaching Materials Reports | 2010 | | Blaise, M., Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J., & Hammer, M. (2010). Evaluation of Early Start Kindergartens. Submitted to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. & Edwards, S. (2008). Generating multiage pedagogies with the City of Melbourne’s early childhood teachers. Submitted to the City of Melbourne, Department of Children’s Services, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2008 | | Blaise, M. (2008). Young children’s understandings of gender and sexuality. A research report prepared and submitted to the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. | | 2008 | | Fleer, M. Agbenyega, J. Blaise, M., & Peers, C. (2008). Assessment practices within the early years: Assumptions, beliefs, and practices. Research report prepared and submitted to the South Australia Department of Early Childhood Services, Adelaide, Australia. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M., Edwards, S., & Hammer, M. (2007). An initial investigation of the experiences amongst stakeholders involved in family grouping models in the City of Melbourne. Research report prepared and submitted to the City of Melbourne, Department of Children’s Services, Melbourne, Australia. | | 2003 | | Blaise, M. (2003). Locating, sustaining, and disrupting gender discourses: A feminist poststructuralist study of gender in two kindergarten classrooms. Research report prepared and submitted to the Spencer Foundation, Chicago. Illinois. | | | All Other Outputs Review of Books or of software | 2010 | | Qatar National Research Fund, “National Priorities Research Program” (2010) | | 2008 | | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK, (2008) | | 2004 | | Blaise, M. (2004). Teaching number. [Review of the book Teaching number: Advancing children’s skills and strategies]. International Journal of Equity & Innovation in Early Childhood Education, 1 (1). | | 2001 | | Blaise, M. (2001). Critical issues. [Review of the book Critical issues in social research: Power and prejudice]. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2 (2), pp. 256-25). | | services | 2012 | | Bartholomaeus, C. (2012). Rethinking masculinities and young age: Primary school students constructing gender. PhD, Adelaide University, Australia. | | | | 2012 | | Kilderry, A. (2012). Teacher decision making in early childhood education. Anna Kilderry, PhD, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. | | 2011 | | LEE, Hsin-Hui, (2011). Taiwanese preschool teachers’ responses to children’s performance of gender and sexuality. Minor Thesis, MEd., Monash University. | | 2011 | | Kamala Saravanan, K.S. (2011). Men’s perception of men’s likelihood to sexually harass. PhD, Universiti Putra Malaysia. | | 2011 | | CHUA, M.L. (2011). Parental talk about academic acceleration in the early childhood years. Independent Field Study, EdD (Dual Award) Programme, Singapore, National Institute of Education/University of London Institute of Education. | | | | Selected Output Categories Editorial Boards | 2012 | | Editorial Advisory Board Member, Multidisciplinary Journal on Social Diversity (2012-present) | | | | 2012 | | Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education (2012-present) | | | | 2010 | | Editorial Board, Teachers College Press Advisory Board, Early Childhood Education Series (2010-2013) | | 2010 | | Editorial Board, International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal (2010-present) | | 2010 | | Editorial Board, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (2010-present) | | 2008 | | Editorial Board, Gender and Education, International Advisory Board (2008-present) | | 2006 | | Editorial Board, Early Childhood Research Quarterly | | 2002 | | Editorial Board, International Journal of Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood Education, (2002-present) | | | | 2006 | | Boorondara City Council, Boorandara Kindergarten, Educational and research consultant (2006-2007) | | 2001 | | Safe Schools Network: A Project of the Rhode Island Task Force on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth, Educational consultant, (2001) | | | | Speech and Prestigious Public Presentation | 2008 | | Blaise, M. & Rasmussen, M.L. (2008). Gender Storylines in Early Childhood Education. Workshop for the Department of Children’s Services, Frankston City Council, 2008 | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007). Engaging with Children differently. Workshop for Children’s Services, Monash University. | | 2007 | | Blaise, M. (2007). Engaging with Children: Supporting Relationships in the Early Childhood Classroom. Workshop for the Department of Children’s Services, City of Melbourne. | | 2005 | | Blaise, M. (2005). Defining Culturally & Linguistically Relevant Practices. Workshop for Boorondoora Kindergarten, City of Boorondoora. | | 2003 | | Andrew, Y., Blaise, M., Houghton, A., Hydon, C., Newman, B., Rundle, D., Sheehan, M. (Blaise, M., Newman, B., Houghton (2003-2005). Revolutionary Planning & Teaching. Workshops for all of the Children’s Services Advisors within the Department of Children’s Services, Victoria, Australia. | | | |