Associate Professor
Research interests include arts and inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning and early childhood teacher education. Recent work has focused on understanding school micro-cultures, exploring early childhood teachers’ theories about what constitutes good teaching, and the personal, cultural, and institutional contexts that shape and reshape these perceptions.
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About Jolyn Blank
Research interests include arts and inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning and early childhood teacher education. Recent work has focused on understanding school micro-cultures, exploring early childhood teachers’ theories about what constitutes good teaching, and the personal, cultural, and institutional contexts that shape and reshape these perceptions.
| Present | Associate Professor, University of South Florida | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2010 | An exploration of early childhood teacher education in Ghana |
| USF Global Academic Partners Program for Innovations in Collaborative Research, Teaching, and Creative Activities | |
| $10,000 | |
| 2008 | Multiple perspectives on the role of arts in early schooling: Visions, values, and venues |
| USF College of Education Grant | |
| $4,500 | |
| 2006 | Performing arts centers as experiential educational settings |
| Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| $7,483 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2015 - Present | Member, Qualitative Research Advisory Group | 2015 - 2018 | Member, Faculty Senate General Education Council | 2015 | Search Committee Chair, USF Preschool for Creative Learning Director and Affiliated Faculty | 2014 | Co-Chair, Faculty Council Ad Hoc Constitution Revision Committee |
Honors and Awards
- 2010 - Early Career Research Award, American Educational Research Association, Early Education/Child Development SIG
- 2003 - William Chandler Bagley Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Education
- 2000 - Karnes Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Education
- 1999 - National Association for Gifted Children Curriculum Award for In-depth inquiries into the natural environment: Preschool project work at a universityaffiliated school
Courses
- EEC 4303 - Creative and Affective Experiences in Early Childhood Education
- EEC 4614 - Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education
- EEC 6414 - Diversity in Home and School
- EDG 7931/6926 - Workshop in Early Childhood: The Project Approach
- EEC 7306 - Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood
- EDF 7477 - Qualitative Research in Education I
- EDG 7931 - Case Study Research
| 2006 | Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
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| 2000 | M.Ed., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
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| 1994 | B.S., Illinois State University | |
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