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Education
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies
Focus on curricula and alternative modalities of knowledge/curricula as mediations of identity, embodiment, technology and empowerment, 2007.
Regent College, Vancouver, BC: Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies with focus on the intersections of culture, spirituality, interpretation, community, text and image: 1996.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: Bachelor's of Science in Education: Elementary and Middle School: Language Arts and Social Studies Foci: 1979.

Teaching Experience
Currently teaching in the elementary education program at USU emphasis on foundations and social studies courses.
2002-2008: Instructor for foundations sections of secondary and elementary communications courses at the the University of British Columbia
2006-2008: Instructor for Technology Education methods courses at the University of British Columbia
2002-2008: Instructor for Technology Integration courses for Elementary and Middle school: with focus Science, Math, Social Studies and Language Arts cohorts at the the University of British Columbia
2004-2006: Instruction with Master's cohorts for Urban Learner Cohort at the the University of British Columbia
2005: Media assistant for Master's course Media, Education and Democracy at the the University of British Columbia
2002-2005: Media Assistant in conjunction with Computer Media Services at the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia

Other teaching
Elementary Teaching: All subject areas in elementary schools in Virginia and California
Educational consulting (diagnostics and prescriptive instruction in reading and math, all ages) as Director of Britannica Learning Center in Riverside California. 10 years total.
Extensive ESL/ELL tutoring in varied subjects including reading, language arts and philosophy 1993-1998, Vancouver BC.

Highlighted Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Living Language Institute, Vancouver, BC: with Colingual Family Research Project, Joint project with Marpole Community Center and United Way Grant. 2007-2008.
Research Associate, Imaginative Education Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 2008.
Director, 3rd Annual Research Symposia, Imaginative Education Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 2008.

Peer reviewed articles
Peterson, J. (In Press) Introduction to Imaginative Education (Peterson, J. eds) in 3rd Annual Research Symposia Publication 2008, Imaginative Education Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Peterson, J. (In Press). The Digital as Autographic/Educative Space In Dias, B. & Irwin, R (eds.) Artografia: Pedagogia e Metodoligia em Artes. University of Brazil Press.
Peterson, J. (Jan 2007).The digital as inquiry into the anorexic commons..Educational Insights, Vol. 10, Number 2, Jan 2007. Vancouver, B.C: Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.
Brennan, K., James, K., Krug, D., Peterson, J. & Petrina, S. (in press). Crafts-based research. International Journal of Technology and Design Education.