Jane Plihal Associate professor Ph.D., University of Chicago Family, youth, and community Room 235 Peik Hall 159 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-624-3069 Fax: 612-624-8277 E-mail: pliha001@umn.edu Office hours: Spring 2008: Wed. and Thurs. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Preferred method of contact: e-mail

Teaching and research interests

• Family education
• Comprehensive work, community, and family education
• International education

My research, teaching, and outreach activities relate to three programmatic areas: family education; comprehensive work, community, and family education; and international education.

I teach courses that focus on interpretive research methodologies and critical science research methodologies.

My international teaching, research, and outreach activities have taken place in Botswana, Barbados, Thailand, Japan, and Namibia.

Selected works

McClelland, J., Dahlberg, K., & Plihal, J. (2002). Learning in the ivory tower: Students’ embodied experience. College Teaching, 5(1), 4-8.

Copa, G.H., Plihal, J., Birky, G., & Upton, K. (1999). New designs for staffing and staff development for secondary and postsecondary education. Berkeley: University of California, National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

Plihal, J., Laird, M., & Rehm, M. (1999). The meaning of curriculum: Alternative perspectives. In J. M. Johnson & C. Fedje (Eds.), Family and consumer sciences curriculum: Toward a critical science approach (pp. 2-22). Education and Technology Division Yearbook 19, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Peoria, IL: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.