College of Education Faculty & Staff
Donna Kalmbach Phillips
Associate Professor of Education
Dr. Kalmbach Phillips teaches in the area of literacy. Prior to her life in higher education, she taught primarily in the middle school, spending her days reading and writing with young adolescents. She conducts research in the areas of literacy and teacher identity acquisition.
"Learning to teach – like teaching itself – is always the process of becoming; a time of formation and transformation, a scrutiny into what one is doing, and who one can become" - Debra Britzman
Education
- PhD - Oregon State University
- MS - Western Oregon State University
Recent Publications
Phillips, D. K. & Carr, K. (2009). Dilemmas of trustworthiness in preservice teacher action research. Action Research, 6(4), pp. 421-440.
Phillips, D. K. & Carr, K. (2007). Illustrations of the analytic memo as reflexivity for preservice teachers. Educational Action Research 15(4).
Phillips, D. K. & Carr, K. (2006). Becoming a teacher through action research: Process, context, and self-study. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Larson, M. L. & Phillips, D. K. (2005). Becoming a teacher of literacy: The struggle between authoritative discourses. Teaching Education 16(4), 311-323.
Phillips, D. K. & Carr, K. (2005). Writing to re-invent: an eTextbook about becoming a teacher. International Journal of the Book, v. 2. Altona, Australia: Common Ground Publishers.
Carr, K. & Phillips, D. K. (2005). Using interactive textware to scaffold preservice teacher understanding of action research. In R. Carlsen, I. Gibson, K. McFerring, J. Price, & J. Willis (Eds.). Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Annual. Norfold, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Cammack, J. C. & Phillips, D. K. (2003). Creating space for subjectivity: wandering the discourse of female preservice teachers, Advancing Women in Leadership On-Line Journal. Retrieved October 14, 2003. http://www.advancingwomen.com/awl/awl.html
Phillips, D. K. (2003). Speaking what I speak (speaking words not my own): Hypomnemata in practice. Reflective Education, 3(3), pp. 279-291.
Phillips, D. K. (2002). Female preservice teachers’ talk: Illustrations of subjectivity, visions of “nomadic” space. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice 8(1), pp. 9-27.
Cammack, J. C. & Phillips, D. K. (2001). Discourses and subjectivity of the gendered teacher. Gender and Education, 14(2), pp. 123-133.
Phillips, D. K. (2001). Learning to speak the sacred and learning to construct the secret: Two stories of finding space as preservice teachers in professional education. Teaching Education, 12(3), pp.261-278.
Contact Information
Email: dphillips@pacificu.edu
Phone: 503-352-1452