RESEARCH & FACULTY
Jan Buley
Jan Buley
Assistant ProfessorSchool of Education
Professional Schools
705.675.1151 ext. 4384
Sudbury Campus
Jan Buley is a full-time professor of Literacies and Drama Education in the School of Education at Laurentian University. Jan considers herself very privileged to be learning from and with the teaching candidates at Laurentian, and is empowered by the energies and enthusiasm of young educators. She is interested in the roles that imagination and vulnerability play in teaching and learning arena, and is intently driven to consider the missing elements--the what and the who--in our education systems. Each year, Jan travels to Coastal Ecuador with 10 education students and teacher-partner David, where they experience first-hand global teaching opportunities and challenges. Jan is addicted to storytelling, poetry, singing, and making the world a better place for those who are silenced. She firmly believes that the finest teachers on the planet are 8 years old.
- Ph.D.-Steinhardt School of Teaching and Learning, New York University
- M.Ed.-Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS
- M.A-Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC
- B.Ed.-Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
- B.A.-University of Guelph
Jan Buley's Ph.D. research at NYU focused on the assumptions, beliefs and contradictions of family engagement in school communities. Her Ph.D. research has evolved to include an analysis of the assumptions, beliefs and contradictions for first year and novice teachers in new classroom settings--with particular emphasis on new teachers in international settings. Jan is presently involved with work including marginalized youth and storycircle narratives. Jan has also furthered her own professional growth through coursework involving imagination and the arts (through the Lincoln Centre Institutes for Teaching and Learning) and her practical work with drama education emphasizing social democracy and change.
- $2050.00 Laurentian University Research Grant Science/Literacy Project
- $350 Teaching Innovation FundSchool of Education Colloquium Acadia University
- $6500 Segelberg Trust Grant
- (A) Buley, J. (2011) The Realization. The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. Vol. 17, Winter 2011-2012.
- (A) Buley, J. & A. Jones (2010) What Matters Most in the Writing Journey: A Teacher to Teacher Conversation. Colorado Communicator,, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2010.
- (A) Buley, J. Danyluk P & G. Van der Giessen (2009). The Concurrent Education Programme at Laurentian University: What Have We Learned from the First Graduating Class? Journal of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 6, No.1, 2009.
- (B) Nielsen, T. & F. Fitzgerald, Eds. (2010) Shells, Spirals and Musings of Mirrors (Buley, D. & Buley, J.) Book Chapter: Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice: A Many-Sided Vision. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- (A) Crossman, Rae, Editor (2007). Notes from the Wild: An Account in Words and Music of R. Murray Schafer's And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon. The New Quarterly. Number 101, Winter 2007.
