Research interests
Pauline Sameshima's research and art-making center on looking at both the official and the hidden curriculum. She is interested in learning system designs, collaborative and creative scholarship, eco-responsive pedagogies, and alternative forms of knowledge production and acknowledgment.
Teaching & professional interests
Pauline teaches math methods for elementary teachers, arts integration, and curriculum theory. She is an exhibiting multi-media artist, lyricist, and designer. Her artwork has been included in three editions of Night of Artists Biographies and Works, a Canadian publication archived at the National Gallery of Canada. She combines her professional interests with her experience teaching elementary public school for 17 years with five years in administration.
Recent accomplishments
Books
- Prendergast, M., Leggo, C., & Sameshima, P. (Eds.). (in press). Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
- Sameshima, P. (2007). Seeing Red—a pedagogy of parallax. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. REVIEWS
Articles
- Sameshima, P. (2008). Letters to a new teacher: A curriculum of embodied aesthetic awareness. Teacher Education Quarterly, 35(2), 29-44.
- Sameshima, P. (2008). AutoethnoGRAPHIC relationality through paradox, parallax, and metaphor. In S. Springgay, R. L. Irwin, C. Leggo & P. Gouzouasis (Eds.), Being with a/r/tography (pp. 45-56). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
- Wiebe, S., Sameshima, P., Irwin, R., Leggo, C., Gouzouasis, P., & Grauer, K. (2008). Re-imagining arts integration: Rhizomatic relations of the every day. Journal of Educational Thought, 41(3), 263-279.
- Sameshima, P. (2008). Pauline Sameshima’s story, “Seeing Red” (with Patrick Slattery, Howard Gardner, Elliot Eisner, Rebecca Carmi and Gregory Cajete). In Four Arrows aka Don Trent Jacobs (Ed.), The authentic dissertation: Alternative ways of knowing, research and representation (pp. 51-60). London: Routledge.
Other
Honors
- 2008 WSU, College of Education Collaboration and Networking Award
- 2008 WSU Outstanding Mentorship Award
- 2008 WSU, College of Education, Alhadeff Teacher of Teachers’ Award
- 2007 University of British Columbia, Gordon and Marion Smith Prize in Art Education
- 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Awards
- AERA, Arts Based Educational Research
- CSSE, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Arts Researchers and Teachers Society
- CSSE, Canadian Association of Teacher Education
- University of British Columbia, Ted T. Aoki Prize in Curriculum Studies
Educational background
PhD: Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia, 2006
MA: Educational Leadership, San Diego State University, 1999
Diploma: Visual and Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, 1991
BEd: Elementary (English and Physical Education), University of British Columbia, 1988
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