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/Critical Race Theory
- 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

Gayle has worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University since June of 2005, and as an Assistant Professor beginning Fall 1999.