Projects Grouped with Publications

Professional Projects
Washington State University Museum of Art: Curator of online education (2010 – date) Curricular and Website Development
ACE (Art for Children's Enrichment): A project developing curriculum and assessment for 4H programs across Washington State (2009 – date)


Current Funded Research Projects
Clichés and Cloaks: Creative Collaborations Exploring Arts Methods and How Pre-Service Teacher Conceptions of the Teacher Identity Shape Pedagogical Conceptions. Joint project with Anita Sinner at Concordia University in the creation of art and the development of graduate student mentorship and undergraduate teacher education research (2008 – date) 

Women And Meth: A cross disciplinary project blending nursing science and various humanities’ disciplines in the interpretation of the life stories of methamphetamine addicts in recovery. Project website. Lead: Dr. Roxanne Vandermause (2006 – date)
  • Sameshima, P., Vandermause, R., & Santucci, C. (in press). Motherhood and meth: Ekphrasic intervention.  In S. Thomas, A. Cole, & S. Steward (Eds.), The art of poetic inquiry (Vol. 5, Arts-Informed Inquiry Series). Halifax, NS & Toronto, ON, Canada: Backalong Books & Centre for Arts-Informed Research.
  • Sameshima, P., Vandermause, R., Chalmers, S., & Gabriel. (2009). Climbing the ladder with Gabriel: Poetic inquiry of a methamphetamine addict in recovery. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.
  • Sameshima, P., & Vandermause, R. (2009). Methamphetamine addiction and recovery: Poetic inquiry to feel. In M. Prendergast, C. Leggo & P. Sameshima (Eds.), Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences (pp. 275-286). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.


Ongoing Research Projects
Touchstone Learnings 
  • A narrative study on learning experience. Collaborator: Yvette Dubel (2009 – date) 
  • Sameshima, P., & Dubel, Y. (in press). Guided by blood trails: Political revelations in learning. In C. Leggo, E. Hasebe-Ludt, A. Sinner, & C. Chambers (Eds.), A heart of wisdom: Life writing as empathetic inquiry.

How Do Pre-Service Teachers Demonstrate Mathematical Conceptions Through Instructional Video Creation? [video links] 
  • Collaborator: Dr. Jo Olsen (2010 - date)

How Do Pre-Service Teachers Conceive of Everyday Science? 
  • Collaborator: Dr. Blakely Tsurusaki (2009-date)

Becoming a Teacher:  An epistolary narrative inquiry between a pre-service teacher and  and a teacher educator. Collaborator: Cheryl Fredericks (2010 - date)
Curriculum of Love:  A narrative/poetic inquiry on love and learning. Collaborator: Dr. Carl Leggo (2004 - date)
  • Sameshima, P. (in press). Living and learning love.  In R. Lake (Ed.), Dear Nel: Letters from caring educators. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Sameshima, P., & Leggo, C. (2010). The poet’s corpus in love: Passionate pedagogy. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 26(1), 65-81.
  • Sameshima, P. (2010). Living in the amber: Conversations between Red and Greene. In R. Lake (Ed.), Dear Maxine: Letters from the unfinished conversation with Maxine Greene (pp. 140-143). New York: Teachers College Press.

A Pedagogy of Parallax / Parallaxic Praxis
  • Sameshima, P. (2009). Stop teaching! Hosting an ethical responsibility through a pedagogy of parallax. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 6(1), 11-18.
  • Marino, M. T., Sameshima, P., & Beecher, C. C. (2009). Enhancing TPACK with assistive technology: Promoting inclusive practices in preservice teacher education. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(2). Retrieved from http://www.citejournal.org/vol9/iss2/general/article1.cfm
  • Sameshima, P., & Vandermause, R. (2008). Parallaxic praxis: An artful interdisciplinary collaborative research methodology. In B. Kožuh, R. Kahn & A Kozlowska (Eds.), The practical science of society (pp. 141-152). Grand Forks, Nottingham, Krakow: The College of Education and Human Development & Slovenian Research Agency (AARS).  
  • 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. 
  • 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. (2007). Seeing Red—a pedagogy of parallax: An epistolary bildungsroman on artful scholarly inquiry. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Curriculum Theorizing: Ways of Knowing
  • Leggo, C., & Sameshima, P. (in press).  Startling stories: Fiction & reality in artful research. In A . Reid, P. Hart, M. Peters, & C. Russell. (Eds.), Companion to research in education. London: Springer.
  • Prendergast, M., Leggo, C., & Sameshima, P. (Eds.). (2009). Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
  • Sameshima, P. (2009). Cartographic storytelling for a changing world: The pedagogical praxis of home in school. Northwest Passage: Journal of Educational Practices, 1(7), 18-26.
  • Sameshima, P. (2008). Navigating a marine drive: A new scholar embarks on an arts-informed dissertation. In J. G. Knowles, A. Cole, L. Neilsen & S. Promislow (Eds.), Creating scholartistry: Imagining the arts-informed thesis or dissertation (Vol. 4, Arts-Informed Inquiry Series, pp. 152 - 168). Halifax, NS & Toronto, ON, Canada: Backalong Books & Centre for Arts-Informed Research.
  • Sameshima, P., & Knowles, J. G. (2008). Into artfulness: Being grounded but unbounded. In J. G. Knowles, A. Cole, L. Neilsen & S. Promislow. (Eds.), Creating scholartistry: Imagining the arts-informed thesis or dissertation (Vol. 4, Arts-Informed Inquiry Series, pp. 108-121). Halifax, NS & Toronto, ON, Canada: Backalong Books & Centre for Arts-Informed Research.
  • Sameshima, P. (2008). Inspiring creativity through embodied aesthetic teaching. In O. S. Tan (Ed.), Problem-based learning and creativity (pp. 87-107). Singapore: Cengage Learning Asia.
  • Sameshima, P., & Irwin, R. (2008). Rendering dimensions of a liminal currere. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 5(2), 1-15.
  • Sameshima, P. (2007). surRENDERING heART: dRAWing UNDERSTANDING. In J. G. Knowles, A. Cole, L. Neilsen & T. Luciani. (Eds.), The art of visual inquiry (Vol. 3, Arts-Informed Inquiry Series, pp. 53-60). Halifax, NS & Toronto, ON, Canada: Backalong Books & Centre for Arts-Informed Research.
  • Sameshima, P., Sbrocchi, S., & Knowles, J. G. (2007). Views of the visual in theses and dissertations. In J. G. Knowles, A. Cole, L. Neilsen & T. Luciani. (Eds.), The art of visual inquiry (Vol. 3, Arts-Informed Inquiry Series, pp. 327-346). Halifax, NS & Toronto, ON, Canada: Backalong Books & Centre for Arts- informed Research.
  • Sameshima, P. (2007, Fall). Collaboration as integration—An “embodied aesthetic wholeness”. Curriculum in Context, 3(2), 10-14.
  • Sameshima, P. (2006, Fall). Household at the shore: A Marshall McLuhan metaphor. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 4(1). 51-58.
  • Sameshima, P., von Euw, N., & Bonney, M. (2006, March) Bifocal frameworks for communication: Parental involvement in an elementary classroom. BC Educational Leadership Research. 3.

Prior Projects
Distributed Learning and Collaboration Network. An international network (curriculum, creativity, STEM, innovation). Director: Dr. Eric Hamilton
(2007 – 2009)

Richgate Project: A SSHRC supported project investigating public art creation and immigration life history. PI Lead: Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia 
(2004-2007)