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:
Current advisees only, by appointment
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.
