Cleti Cervoni

Dr. Cervoni is professor and associate dean in the School of Education.  She is a graduate of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education where she received an EdD in 2004. She has an M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire and B.A. from Salem State in Biology. Dr. Cervoni received a Fulbright Research Fellowship with Cardiff University in Wales UK (2008) and an Earthwatch fellowship for study in the Pantanal, Brazil (2004). She is the past Director of Education for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and has worked as a high school biology teacher.

Dr. Cervoni teaches courses in qualitative research, science education, gender and science, and pedagogy; her research interests include sociocultural studies of science and gender, semiotics, narrative qualitative methods and ethnography. Her grant work includes a National Science Foundation program for teacher science preparation and a Spencer Foundation doctoral award. She has published guides to schoolyard and backyard science and endangered species, and journal articles on girls in primary science classrooms and gender analysis in education.

Cervoni, C. & G. Ivinson. 2011. Girls in primary school science classrooms: Theorizing beyond dominant discourses of gender, Gender and Education, First published on 15 February 2011I First.

Cervoni, C. 2007.  Beyond access: Girls and school science, Sextant. Salem MA: Salem StateCollege.

Cervoni, C. 2013. Identity, materials and pedagogy: Girls in primary science classrooms in Wales. In L. Swiniarski Ed., Moving Forward in a Global Age: World Class Initiatives in Early Education, In process.

Bernard, R., Cervoni, C., Desir C., McKamey, C. 2009. Joining in and knowing the I:On becoming ethnographic scholars. In W. Luttrell Ed., Qualitative Educational Research: Readings in reflexive methodology and transformative practice, pp. 485-490. New York: Routledge.