Welcome to My Dissertation Blog!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I truly appreciate your feedback and contributions!

I am currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Education Policy Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I also received degrees in Electrical Engineering (2003) and Mathematics (2004). Besides working on my dissertation, I also teach Precalculus and AP Calculus to 11th and 12th graders at the McKinley Technology High School in NE Washington, DC. For more information about me, including teaching experience, dance background, and prior publications and presentations, please see my profile and University of Maryland terpconnect page.

I have several purposes for starting this blog:

1) Receiving feedback for my thoughts-in-progress as I embark on researching and writing my comprehensive exams and dissertation. I truly appreciate all comments and value your privacy, which is why "anonymous comments" are allowed and no moderation will be made for comments I do not agree with.*  I will also do my best to reflect on and respond to all comments.

2)  Overcoming writer's block and inauthentic voice through continual writing, reflection, and conversation.

3)  "Setting the mood" for writing my comps and dissertation; I find that when I am able to first colloquially explain and discuss something in an informal environment, my academic writing becomes more authentic, articulate, and precise.

*Comments will be removed after-the-fact only if they constitute "spam" or use profanity or threatening or abusive language towards an individual or group of people.


Thank you for visiting! I very much look forward to your comments and suggestions! I also appreciate any feedback on mistakes, oversights, updates, possible additions, or inconsistencies on this website. Please comment here on this blog or email me at ioana.stoica@gmail.com.

~ Ioana

Bibliography - Introduction

Welcome and Thank You for Visiting!

This bibliography is a work in progress and reflects works and research I have encountered throughout my past five years as a doctoral student in education history, philosophy, and policy, and that I have found most useful for my own research. Any sources quoted in any blog posts on this website can be found in this bibliography.

For ease of browsing, I have broken down the sources by topic; four bibliographies are currently available: general context and historical sources, educational context and history, current education history and debates, and eco-justice pedagogy and reform research (the list of sources within each is always growing as I currently work to sort over 3GB of information I have collected over the years!)  I am further working on organizing the remainder of my sources into seven more bibliographies on the way (see below for more information).

Bibliographies Available Now:
General Context and Historical Sources
Educational Context and Historical Sources
Current Education History and Policy
Eco-Justice Pedagogy and Reform

More Bibliographies Coming Soon:
Embodied and Holistic Education Research
Critical (including Feminist, Race-based, and Queer) Perspectives
Critical Eco-Justice Oriented Phenomenology as Embodied Method
Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives
Psychological and Rational-Empirical Studies of Education
Dance and Dance Education Research
Mathematics and Mathematics Education Research