Jeanne Marie Iorio

Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, The University of Melbourne

Jeanne Marie Iorio is a Senior Lecturer in early childhood education. Her research, teaching, and writing focuses on disrupting and rethinking accepted educational practices in early childhood and higher education.

Her publications (with co-editor Professor Will Parnell) include Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education: Implications for Policy and Practice (2015) (Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education, 2016), Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research: Imagining New Possibilities (2016), Making Meaning in Early Childhood Research: Pedagogies and the Personal (2018) and Higher Education and the Practice of Hope (with co-author Professor Clifton Tanabe). She co-edits (with Professor Clifton Tanabe) the book series Rethinking Higher Education (Springer).

Experience

–present

Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, University of Melbourne

Education

2007

Teachers College, Columbia Unviersity, EdD
2000

Harvard University, EdM
1994

University of Maryland, College Park, BS
1994

University of Maryland, College Park, BA

Publications

2019

Higher Education and the Practice of Hope, Springer
2017

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research: Pedagogies and the Personal, Routledge
2016

Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research: Imagining New Possibilities , Routledge
2015

Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education: Implications for Policy and Practice , Palgrave macmillan

Research Areas

Education Systems (1301)