About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
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I be please, that we understand so well. We feel photo similarly and poetry. You live in USA. I was in Chicago only – 2 weeks (year 2005). I wrote book “America is for bull” – in Polish .. I do not know on so many well English.
I greet, nice weekend for you
So true, Ivon.
I was only saying last night to my partner that WordPress (and it’s bloggers) have opened up a whole new world of digital experience to me…! I must admit, I’m enjoying it! However; I appreciate it is changing so quickly; what we understand today may seem like ‘old history’ within a few short years…! Don’t blink…! 🙂
I agree with the don’t blink. We might something.
Precisely… The mind boggles.
Hi 🙂
This is a lovely award for your lovely blog
” One Lovely Blog Award”
Thank you. I will follow up on this in the next few days.
Take care,
Ivon
Okies 🙂 take your sweet time…..no one can beat me in being slow when it comes to passing the award ……….hehehehhe so its okay even if you delay by 2 to 3 days …all bloggers are lovely and have lot of patience …
Enjoy transforming our lives 🙂
Takecare
Heh. Hardly anybody socializes by “traditional” means anymore, so no digital socialization means no traditional socialization, either.
…Honestly, I’m not even sure what you mean by “traditional communities.”
Josy, I agree. In the traditional days, whatever those were, we all socialized differently based on local culture. Now digital communities bring new influences that impact our local communities.
Take care,
Ivon