Teaching and Research Interests
Teacher education, socially-created metaphorical constructions, schools and their responses to students’ experience of poverty, women in positions of power - their ideals, actions and dilemmas, qualitative research with an emphasis on narrative research and theory, the establishment and application of research criteria in diverse methodologies.
Most recent publications
Lees, Jessie, Dickson, Marilyn & Barter, Barbara, (2002). Experiential knowledge of flight, rootedness and the passage of time. In Sharon Abbey (Ed.)
Ways of knowing in and through the body: Diverse perspectives on embodiment. Welland, Ontario: Soliel.
Lees, Jessie & Timmons, Vianne. (2001). A committee with committment. In M. Richards, A. Elliot, V. Woloshyn & C. Mitchell (Eds.)
Collaboration uncovered: The forgotten, the assumed and the unexamined in collaborative education (pp.143-155). Westport: Bergin & Garvay.
Timmons, Vianne & Lees, Jessie. (2001). A model of teacher induction: A provincial initiative. Journal of Professional Studies 8(2), 70-78.
Faculty of Education