Dean Pierides
Dean Pierides works as sessional staff in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Unit of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He lectures on the topics of Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessmenti n core classes for the Graduate Diploma of Education and the Bachelor of Teaching. He received a Fulbright Cyprus-America Scholarship and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Molecular Biology with minors in Chemistry, Folklore and Folklife. After working as a research immunologist in the University of Pennsylvania Health System he was Residential Director for the Penn Summer High School program for two consecutive years. He holds a Graduate Diploma of Education (Dean's List) from the University of Melbourne and has taught Middle School in New York City and Melbourne. He is a Master of Education candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne and his thesis is a methodological exploration of doing educational ethnographic work of everyday life in schools. His current research interests include the intersection of education and anthropology, as well as the areas of teacher education, feminism, poststructuralism and critical pedagogy. He can be reached at d.pierides@unimelb.edu.au.
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