College of Education and Human Development

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Colleen Clements

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies

colleen clements

Areas of interest

Critical and anti-racist pedagogies; Social class and racialized identity; Equity in education; Culturally sustaining pedagogies; Critical whiteness studies; Critical arts-based qualitative methodologies.

Degrees

BA Theatre Arts University of Minnesota, Morris
MFA Acting/Theatre Arts University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MEd Family Education, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PhD Education, Culture, and Teaching University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Biography

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Awards

Santa Barbara Independent Innovation in Theatre Award

Associations/Memberships

  • ICQI, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 
  • NWSA, National Women’s Studies Association 
  • AERA, American Educational Research Association, Division G – Social Context of Education
  • SIG - Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education 
  • PSI, Performance Studies International
  • CSA, Cultural Studies Association
Publications

Journal Articles

Clements, C.H., & Stutelberg, E. (2020). Getting read as rad: Performances of “nice white lady” and tensions in teaching about white supremacy. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 17(2), 135-157.

Vagle, M. D., Clements, C. H., & Coffee, A. C. (2016). Analytic Productions in Post-Intentional Phenomenological Research. Cultural Studies? Critical Methodologies, 1532708616643983.

Invited Book Chapters

Martin-Kerr, K.G., & Clements, C. H. (2021). Playing games with theory: Collective memory-work and game theory in post qualitative inquiry. In R. Hamm (Ed.). Reader Collective Memory-Work (pp. 507 – 523). BeltraBooks.

Clements, C.H. & Mason, A.M. Whiteness and poverty. In Casey, Z., Ed. (2020). Critical understandings in education encyclopedia: Critical whiteness studies. Amsterdam: Sense Publishers.

Clements, C.H. & Vagle, M.D. (2020) New Working-Class Studies Handbook. Working-Class Student Experiences: Towards a Social Class-Sensitive Pedagogy.

Coffee, A., Stutelberg, E., Clements, C.H., & Lensmire, T.J. (2016). White women teachers as precarious contradictions. In White Woman’s Work: Examining the Intersectionality of Cultural Norms, Teaching, and Identity Formation in Urban Schools (Eds. Hancock, S.D. & Warren, C.A.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Contributor

Vagle, M. D. (2018). Crafting phenomenological research. Routledge.

Lensmire, A., & Schick, A. (Eds.). (2017). (Re) narrating teacher identity: telling truths and becoming teachers. Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers, co-authored Foreword.

Presentations

Refereed Presentations 

Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., & Stutelberg, E.B. (2023, June) Refusing Closure with a Critical Pedagogy that Centers Bodies, Pleasure, and Joy. Cultural Studies Association Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Abdi, N. & Clements, C.H. (2023, April) Somali Mothers and Daughters navigating Western notions of Motherhood and Schooling in the Diaspora. American Educational Research Association (AERA) International Conference, Chicago, IL.

Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., & Stutelberg, E.B. (2022, November) Collective Memory Work and Pleasure Pedagogy: A Radical Response to Pandemic Burnout. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference Minneapolis, MN.

Martin-Kerr, K.G., & Clements, C. H. (2022, April). Time for a Reboot: Black Feminism and Game Theory for the 21st Century. American Educational Research Association (AERA) International Conference, San Diego, CA.

Clements, C.H., Mason, A., Stutelberg, E., Dyke E., & McManimon, S. (2022, April) Shaking the Walls of the House: The Emotionality of Justice Work in Teacher Education. American Educational Research Association (AERA) International Conference, San Diego, CA.

Abdi, N. & Clements, C.H. (2021, September) Motherhood and the Coloniality of Gender: Somali immigrant mothers and erasure in the U.K. Delivered at National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference, virtual event.

Martin-Kerr, K., Clements, C.H., & Stutelberg, E.B. (2021, August) Motherhood, otherhood, and the state. Delivered at the Collective Memory-Work Symposium, Maynooth, Ireland.

Clements, C.H., Mason, A., Stutelberg, E., Dyke E., & McManimon, S. (2020, October) Making Ourselves Again: Toward Queer, Intersectional, and Feminist Critical Whiteness Studies. AESA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Vagle, M.D., Clements, C.H. (2018, May). Post-Intentional Phenomenology and the Amplification of CounterNarratives. Delivered at International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., Stutelberg, E.B. (2017, November). An Embodied Collective Memory Work Workshop: Challenging the Violence of White Femininity in Education. Delivered at National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. 

Vagle, M.D., Stutelberg, E.B., Clements, C.H., Leitl, T., Chase, K. (2017, April). Pedagogical Tensions in Helping Teacher Candidates Become Social Class-Sensitive. Delivered at American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX. Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., Stutelberg, E.B. (2016, November). Decolonizing Authority in a White Body: Smiling, Screaming, and Silence. Delivered at National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, QC.

Vagle, M., Clements, C.H., Coffee, A. (2015, May). Gotta feel to know. Delivered at International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Clements 6

Vagle, M., Clements, C.H., Coffee, A. (2015, April). Playing with embodied data in post-intentional phenomenological research. Delivered at American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Clements, C.H. & Coffee, A. (2014, May). Collective memory work as lines of flight. Delivered at International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

State and Local Presentations

Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., Dyke, E., Stutelberg, E. (2013). Conversation: Collective Memory Work: A Feminist Approach to Revolutionary Pedagogy. Presentation at the University of Minnesota Graduate Student Research Day for the department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Clements, C.H., Coffee, A., Dyke, E., Stutelberg, E. (2012). Collective Memory Work as a Classroom Tool: Exploring Gender and Sexuality through Critical Literacy. Presentation at the Social Justice Curriculum Fair at South High School, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis, MN.

Clements, C.H, Coffee, A., Dyke, E., Stutelberg, E. (2012). Collective Memory Work: A Feminist Approach to Revolutionary Pedagogy. Presentation at the Midwest Feminist Conference at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Clements, C.H. (2011). Parent Education: New Visions, New Directions. Poster presentation at Minnesota Council on Family Relations, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.