RESEARCH

- Relational identity formation and its impact on schooling
- Moral dimensions of education
- Simone de Beauvoir and feminist notions of the self
- Feminist analyses of power, authority, and relationship in the theory/practice dialectic
- Authority and postmodern conceptions of truth: Implications for public school practice and policy
- Epistemological issues of research methodologies
- The mind-body problem in education
- The relational self and feminist/postmodern understandings of justice
- Impact of web-based instruction on teaching and learning in a relational context

TEACHING

- Multicultural Education
- Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
- Philosophies of Education
- Moral Dimensions of Education
- School Change and the Social Foundations of Personal Identity
- Feminist Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Political Theory
- Methods of Qualitative Inquiry

Gayle has worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University since the fall of 1999, and as associate professor since June of 2005.