Name
Beatrice Balfour
E-mail Address
bjvb2@cam.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA in Philosophy University of California, Berkeley (Summa Cum Laude)
MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies University of Cambridge (Distinction)
Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations
FERSA
Gender and Education Association
Supervisors
Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough (supervisor)
Dr Pam Hirsch (co- supervisor)
Dr Philip Gardner (advisor)
Profile
Originally from Italy, Beatrice studied Philosophy at the University of California Berkeley and Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies at Cambridge. Beatrice also collaborates in the project ‘Economically Disadvantaged Youth Living at the Fringe of Global Cities’ funded by CCE. Beatrice has been the chair of the first ever Careers Fair at the Faculty of Education in Cambridge, the MCR Women's Officer at Emmanuel College, and she volunteers for a Cambridge-based organization called SexYOUality.
Research Topics and Projects
Beatrice's academic interests verge around progressive education, such as the Reggio Emilia Approach, and equity in comparative educational contexts (particularly in the Italian, English and American context), feminist methodologies, primarily oral history and critical ethnography, and the history of developmental psychology.
Blog
Publications
Balfour, Beatrice J. V. “Utopias in Education”. Queer Studies and Education: Critical Concepts for the Twenty-first Century. Ed. W. Pinar, N. Rodriguez, U. Whitlock, E. Broclenbrough, and J. Ingrey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming.
Balfour, Beatrice J. V. "Let's Make Schools a Daily Practice of Democracy' Changes and Continuities in Gendered Visions of Citizenship in Municipal Preschools in Reggio Emilia (1969 - 1990s)." History of Education and Children's Literature. Forthcoming in Nineteenth- and twentieth-century schools as laboratory for the promotion of national identity and citizenship education (2015).