E. Jayne White
education researcher in New Zealand
Elizabeth Jayne White is a New Zealand early childhood teacher and academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in dialogic philosophy and early years pedagogy.
Academic career
White has worked as an early childhood teacher as well in academia. White completed a PhD titled Assessment in New Zealand early childhood education: a Bakhtinian analysis of toddler metaphoricity at Monash University. White has worked at a number of Australian and New Zealand universities, including the University of Otago, the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Waikato. She was promoted to full professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. White then joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury, where she was appointed as Professor of Early Childhood Education.
White is president and one of the founders of the Association for Visual Pedagogies, which was founded in 2015 to "expan[d] understandings and practices that advance critical engagement with, about and for visual pedagogies". She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. She is the series editor of Brill's series Visual Pedagogies, Methodologies, and Educational Research. White is a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australia.
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