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Professor Mindy Blaise

Director, Centre for People, Place and Planet

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3875
Email: m.blaise@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.112  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407

Mindy is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow. She is leading an interdisciplinary project on children’s common world relations with place, materiality, and the more-than-human.

Background

Before becoming an academic, Mindy was a kindergarten and early years teacher in the USA. She has held university positions in the USA (University of Texas, Austin), Hong Kong (The Education University of Hong Kong), and Australia (RMIT, Monash University, Victoria University).

She is a co-founding member (with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University, Ontario, Canada and Affrica Taylor, Canberra University) and principal researcher of the Common Worlds Research Collective. In 2016, she co-founded (with Emily Gray, RMIT and Linda Knight, QUT) the international and interdisciplinary collective, #FEAS, Feminist Educators Against Sexism.

Professional associations

  • Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE), member
  • American Educational Research Association (AERA), member
  • Gender and Education Association, member

Research interests

Creating and practicing experimental and innovative pedagogies for the Anthropocene; interdisciplinarity; postdevelopmentalism; queer theory; feminism; post empiricism; multi-species ethnography.

Mindy is interested in bringing together early childhood education and feminist environmental humanities to generate new pedagogies for the Anthropocene. In particular, she is curious about what we might learn by paying attention to children’s relations with place, materials, and the more-than-human and how this might activate pedagogies that can ethically attend to the common worlds we share.

Potential research students interested in creative practice, interdisciplinarity, environmental issues (water, waste, weathering), and pedagogies for the Anthropocene are encouraged to get in touch.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Education, United States of America, 1999.

Research Outputs

2023

Books

  • Rooney, T., Blaise, M. (2023). Rethinking environmental education in a climate change era: Weather learning in early childhood. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003150411.

Book Chapters

  • Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Blaise, M. (2023). Common worlding pedagogies in early childhood. Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry (119-129). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298519-12.

Journal Articles

  • Pollitt, J., Gray, E., Blaise, M., Ullman, J., Fishwick, E. (2023). Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research. Gender and Education, 35(5), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2213727.
  • Sparrman, A., Hrechaniuk, Y., Smith, OA., Andersson, K., Annerbäck, J., Arzuk, D., Bodén, L., Blaise, M., Castañeda, C., Coleman, R., Eßer, F., Finn, M., Gustafsson, D., Holmqvist, P., Josefsson, J., Kraftl, P., Lee, N., Lesnik-Oberstein, K., Mitchell, S., Murris, K., Orrmalm, A., Oswell, D., Prout, A., Rosen, R., Runswick-Cole, K., Sjöberg, J., Smith, K., Spyrou, S., Stockton, KB., Taylor, A., Zehavi, O., Zotevska, E. (2023). Child Studies Multiple – Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 15(1), 53 pages. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.3529.
  • Poelina , A., Wooltorton, S., Paradies, Y., Guimond, L., Mulligan, E., Jackson-Barrett, L., Blaise, M. (2023). Learning to care for Dangaba. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 39(3), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.30.
  • Gray, E., Ullman, J., Blaise, M., Pollitt, J. (2023). ‘I'm broken but I'm alive’: gender, COVID-19 and higher education in Australia. Higher Education Research and Development, 42(3), 588-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2096576.
  • Blue, L., Pollitt, J., Blaise, M. (2023). Conversations with rain: Proposing poetic and non-linear interpretation strategies in the Art Gallery. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 24(1.2), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea24si1.2.
  • Merewether, J., Blaise, M., Pitchford, K., Giamminuti, S. (2023). Unsettling “reduce-reuse-recycle”: the provocation of wastepaper and “discarding well”. The Journal of Environmental Education, 54(3), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2023.2179585.
  • Gardiner, J., Singer, H., Hamilton, J., Neimanis, A., Blaise, M. (2023). Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities. Australian Feminist Studies, 2023(2023), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2023.2267759.
  • Gray, EM., Pasley, A., Blaise, M., Ullman, J., Fishwick, E. (2023). Sexisms and Un/welcome Diversity in Australian Universities. The Australian Educational Researcher, 2023(2023), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00673-1.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Poelina , A., Paradies, Y., Wooltorton, S., Guimond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L., Blaise, M., Mulligan, E. (2023). Learning to Care for Dangaba. [You tube Clip]. DaveLaslett.com.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Blaise, M., Pollitt, J., Merewether, J., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2022). Resilience as More-Than-Human. Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene (17-30). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Pollitt, J., Blaise, M., Gray, E. (2022). Enacting a feminist pause: Interrupting patriarchal productivity in higher education. Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning (28-40). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126508-3.

Journal Articles

  • Kelly, O., Illingworth, S., Butera, F., Dawson, V., White, P., Blaise, M., Martens, P., Schuitema, G., Huynen, M., Bailey, S., Cowman, S. (2022). Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education. Frontiers in Sustainability, 3(2022), article number 920375. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.920375.
  • Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S., Blaise, M., Luz Aniere, C., Horwitz, P., White, PJ., Muecke, S. (2022). Regeneration time: Ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 38(3-4), 397-414. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2021.34.
  • Wooltorton, S., Guenther, J., Poelina, A., Blaise, M., Collard, L., White, P. (2022). Learning regenerative cultures: Indigenous nations in higher education renewal in Australia. Asia Pacific Education Review, 23(4), 639-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-022-09789-y.
  • Merewether, J., Gobby, B., Blaise, M. (2022). Common Worlds Justice in Post-Anthropocentric Education: Attuning to the More-Than-Human through Walking with Sound and Smell. Equity and Excellence in Education, 55(3), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2022.2131198.
  • Gray, EM., Pollitt, J., Blaise, M. (2022). Between activism and academia: Zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19. Gender and Education, 34(8), 887-905. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1931045.
  • Blaise, M., Hamm, C. (2022). Lively Emu dialogues: Activating feminist common worlding pedagogies. Pedagogy Culture and Society, 30(4), 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1817137.
  • Wintoneak, V., Blaise, M. (2022). Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan as a feminist anti-colonial methodology. River Research and Applications: an international journal devoted to river research and management, 38(3), 435-442. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3822.
  • Giamminuti, S., Merewether, J., Blaise, M. (2022). Pedagogical documentation and the refusal of method: troubling dogmas and inviting collective obligations. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 30(2), 213-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2022.2046834.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Pollitt, J., Blaise, M., Rooney, T. (2021). Weather bodies: Experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years. Environmental Education Research, 27(8), 1141-1151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2021.1926434.
  • Blaise, M., Wintoneak, V. (2021). (Re)forming River-Child-Blowie Relations: Questions of Noticing, Caring, and Imagined Futures with the Unloved and Disregarded. Feral Feminisms, 10(2021), 137-145.
  • Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Blaise, M. (2021). Feminist ethicality in child-animal research: worlding through complex stories. Children's Geographies, 2021(Article in Press), 12p.. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.1907311.
  • Godden, N., Farrant, B., Yallup Farrant, J., Heyink, E., Carot Collins, E., Burgemeister, B., Tabeshfar, M., Barrow, J., West, M., Kieft, J., Rothwell, M., Leviston, Z., Bailey, S., Blaise, M., Cooper, T. (2021). Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 57(11), 1759-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15649.
  • Giamminuti, S., Merewether, J., Blaise, M. (2021). Aesthetic-ethical-political movements in professional learning: encounters with feminist new materialisms and Reggio Emilia in early childhood research. Professional Development in Education, 47(2-3), 436-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2020.1862277.
  • Rooney, T., Blaise, M., Royds, F. (2021). With shadows, dust and mud: Activating weathering-with pedagogies in early childhood education. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 22(2), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949120939202.

2020

Book Chapters

  • Knight, L., Gray, E., Blaise, M. (2020). Powerful dressing: Artfully challenging sexism in the academy. Transdisciplinary feminist research : Innovations in theory, method and practice (43-58). Routledge.
  • Blaise, M., Ryan, S. (2020). Engaging with critical theories and the early childhood curriculum. Curiculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed (80-95). Routledge.
  • Blaise, M., Rooney, T. (2020). Listening to and telling a rush of unruly natureculture gender stories. Disrupting and countering deficits in early childhood education (151-163). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102696-10.

2019

Book Chapters

  • Greishaber, S., Blaise, M. (2019). Making room for more: Complexity, diversity, and the impact of alternative perspectives on early childhood care and education. The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education (617-640). John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119148104.
  • Blaise, M., Knight, L., Gray, E. (2019). Punk Feminism and #FEAS: A Low-Brow Protest of Academic Sexism. Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy: Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality (269-286). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04852-5_15.
  • Blaise, M., Hamm, C. (2019). Shimmering: Animating Multispecies Relations with Wurundjeri Country. Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (93-100). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Blaise, M., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2019). Enacting Feminist Materialist Movement Pedagogies in the Early Years. Feminists researching gendered childhoods: Generative entanglements (109-120). Bloomsbury Academic.

Journal Articles

  • Blaise, M., Rooney, T., Pollitt, J. (2019). Weather wanderings. Journal of Public Pedagogies, 4(2019), 166-170.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pollitt, J., Blue, L., Blaise, M. (2019). Conversations with rain: a multi-platform research-creation project. Art Gallery of Western Australia.

2018

Journal Articles

2017

Book Chapters

  • Taylor, A., Blaise, M. (2017). Queer Departures into More-Than-Human Worlds. The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education (591-609). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_29.
  • Banjerjee, B., Blaise, M. (2017). Data provocations: Disappointing, failing, malfunctioning. Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the post-critical and post-anthropocentric (49-60). Peter Lang Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Blaise, M., Hamm, C., Iorio, JM. (2017). Modest witness(ing) and lively stories: paying attention to matters of concern in early childhood. Pedagogy Culture and Society, 25(1), 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2016.1208265.

2016

Book Chapters

  • Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Blaise, M., Taylor, A. (2016). Decentering the human in multi-species ethnographies. Posthuman Research Practices in Education (149-167). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453082.

Journal Articles

2015

Journal Articles

  • Bone, J., Blaise, M. (2015). An uneasy assemblage: Prisoners, animals, asylum-seeking children and posthuman packaging. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 16(1), 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949114566754.

2014

Book Chapters

  • Blaise, M. (2014). Gender Discourses and Play. The SAGE Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood (115-127). SAGE Publications Ltd.

Journal Articles

2013

Journal Articles

  • Banerjee, B., Blaise, M. (2013). There’s Something in the Air: Becoming-With Research Practices. Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies, 13(4), 240-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708613487867.
  • Taylor, A., Blaise, M., Giugni, M. (2013). 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), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.698863.
  • Blaise, M. (2013). Charting new territories: re-assembling childhood sexuality in the early years classroom. Gender and Education, 25(7), 801-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2013.797070.
  • Blaise, M. (2013). Situating Hong Kong Pet–Dog–Child Figures within Colonialist Flows and Disjunctures. Global Studies of Childhood, 3(4), 380-394. https://doi.org/10.2304/gsch.2013.3.4.380.
  • Blaise, M., Leung, VW., Sun, C. (2013). Views from Somewhere: situated knowledges and partial perspectives in a Hong Kong kindergarten classroom. Global Studies of Childhood, 3(1), 12-25.
  • Yelland, N., Andrew, Y., Blaise, M., Chan, YO. (2013). ‘We spend more time with the children than they do …’: education, care and the work of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Globalization Societies and Education, 11(4), 443-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2013.807079.

Research Projects

  • Intergenerational cultural transfer of Indigenous knowledges, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2022 ‑ 2026, $137,294.
  • Climate change and the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Health Promotion Research - Exploratory Research Grants, 2023 ‑ 2025, $74,993.
  • Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities, Australian Research Council, Grant - Discovery Projects, 2021 ‑ 2024, $322,643.
  • Cassandra Tytler - A whisper, a chorus: Artworks, community, and site-specific practice to amplify stories that inspire climate-informed action, empathy, and inclusion., Forrest Research Foundation, Early-Career Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships, 2023 ‑ 2024, $261,674.
  • 2021 Nationally Quality Framework Approved Learning Frameworks Update, Australian Children's Education Care and Quality Authority, Grant, 2021 ‑ 2024, $96,726.
  • Implementing and researching education outcomes through the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy, Perpetual Ltd, IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program, 2021 ‑ 2023, $86,964.
  • Re-thinking the Rs through arts: transforming waste practices in early childhood education, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grants, 2018 ‑ 2022, $32,643.
  • Using creative arts, pedagogical documentation, and dialogue to transform children's relations to waste, Perpetual Ltd, IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program, 2018 ‑ 2021, $43,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Slow Choreographies: Addressing everyday sexisms in Australian Universities through embodied creative methods.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Walking-with Derbarl Yerrigan/the Swan River: Cultivating Recuperative Methodological and Pedagogical Practices in Early Childhood Education

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Place Literacies: Literacies Emerging in Place-Child(ren) Common Worlds
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Community Organising for Climate Justice Transitions: A Feminist Participatory Action Research Collaboration in Western Australia

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Education, PAYING ATTENTION TO WATER RELATIONS: Poetic Inquiry and Pedagogical documentation as curious practices
  • Master of Education: The role of struggle in teachers' beliefs about learning and instruction
  • Master of Education: Sexy girls and handsome boys: Popular cultures, representations of gender, sexualities, and childhoods
  • Master of Education: A case study of everyday family care and education practices in Hong Kong
  • Master of Education: Guidance and governing: Managing, the behaviours of children, educators, and families
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Fat(s), muscle(s), movement, and physiologie(s) in early childhood education
  • Doctor of Education: In search of an aesthetic pathway: young children's encounter with drama improvisation

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy: Sowing the seeds of care in teacher education: Incidental or intentional?
  • Doctor of Philosophy: The ambiguity of early childhood preservice teachers' beliefs about practice
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Young children's experiences and understandings of family
  • Master of Education: Application of effective strategies to early childhood education: Focusing on minority children learning English as a Second Language
  • Master of Education: The child in nature
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