E. Jayne White

E. Jayne White
Academic background
Alma mater	Monash University
Thesis	Assessment in New Zealand early childhood education: a Bakhtinian analysis of toddler metaphoricity (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Joce Nuttall
Academic work
Institutions	University of Waikato, RMIT University, University of Canterbury, RMIT University Bundoora Campus
Doctoral students	Rene Novak, Bridgette Miriam Redder

Elizabeth Jayne White is a New Zealand early childhood teacher and academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in dialogic philosophy and early years pedagogy.

Academic career

White has worked as an early childhood teacher as well in academia. White completed a PhD titled Assessment in New Zealand early childhood education: a Bakhtinian analysis of toddler metaphoricity at Monash University. White has worked at a number of Australian and New Zealand universities, including the University of Otago, the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Waikato. She was promoted to full professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. White then joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury, where she was appointed as Professor of Early Childhood Education.

White is President and one of the founders of the Association for Visual Pedagogies, which was founded in 2015 to "expan[d] understandings and practices that advance critical engagement with, about and for visual pedagogies". She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. She is the series editor of Brill's series Visual Pedagogies, Methodologies, and Educational Research. White is a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australia.

White's research focuses on dialogic philosophy and educational pedagogies in the early years. In 2024 she is working with Canterbury colleague Ngaroma Williams to explore children's relationships with their local waterscapes, using Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon as the site of their investigation.

Selected works

• E. Jayne White. (2020) Seeing the World through Children’s Eyes.Visual Methodologies and Approaches to Research in the Early Years: 1. Brill. ISBN 978-9004433311
• Petar Jandrić; David Hayes; Ian Truelove; et al. (7 August 2020). "Teaching in the Age of Covid-19". Postdigital Science and Education. 2 (3): 1069–1230. doi:10.1007/S42438-020-00169-6. ISSN 2524-485X. PMC 7411270. Wikidata Q122359065.
• Michael A. Peters; Petar Jandrić; Ruth Irwin; et al. (2 November 2016). "Towards a philosophy of academic publishing". Educational Philosophy and Theory. 48 (14): 1401–1425. doi:10.1080/00131857.2016.1240987. ISSN 0013-1857. Wikidata Q57810009.
• Elizabeth Jayne White (2 August 2013). "Bakhtinian Dialogic and Vygotskian Dialectic: Compatabilities and contradictions in the classroom?". Educational Philosophy and Theory. 46 (3): 220–236. doi:10.1111/J.1469-5812.2011.00814.X. ISSN 0013-1857. Wikidata Q126174633.
• E.J. White; M. Peter; B. Redder (2015). "Infant and teacher dialogue in education and care: A pedagogical imperative". Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 30: 160–173. doi:10.1016/J.ECRESQ.2014.10.008. ISSN 0885-2006. Wikidata Q126174634.
• S. Farquhar; E.J. White (13 May 2013). "Philosophy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood". Educational Philosophy and Theory. 46 (8): 821–832. doi:10.1080/00131857.2013.783964. ISSN 0013-1857. Wikidata Q126174635.

External links

• Seeing the World through Children’s Eyes - Visual Methodologies and Approaches to Research in the Early Years, launch of book edited by E. Jayne White.