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, technology integration, 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
- Sameshima, P., Vandermause, R., & Chalmers, S (with Gabriel). (in press). Climbing the ladder with Gabriel: Poetic inquiry with a methamphetamine addict in recovery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Section Chair: AERA Division B: Curriculum Studies, Interpretive/Qualitative Studies in Curriculum
- Archived featured artist on the AERA Arts-Based Educational Research Site
Honors
2009 WSU, College of Education Faculty Funding Award
2009 WSU, College of Education Alhadeff Teacher of Teachers’ Award
2009 American Nurses’ Foundation: Funding granted for “Women and Methamphetamine: Portraits of Addiction and Recovery”
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
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
