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Kremen School of Education and Human Development

Becky L. Noël Smith (she, her, hers)

Associate Professor

Liberal Studies | 559.278.0076 | Office: ED257

smith@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education

  • University of Alabama – Ph.D. in Instructional Leadership with emphasis in Social & Cultural Studies, 2018
  • University of Central Florida – M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
  • University of Central Florida – B.S. in Elementary Education, 2002

Courses Taught

  • CI 100 – Instructional Applications of Technology (Liberal Studies)
  • CI 152 – Adolescent Learning and Development (Curriculum & Instruction)
  • LEE 160 – Inquiry and Puzzles of Practice A (Multiple Subject Credential)
  • LEE 167 – Inquiry and Puzzles of Practice B (Multiple Subject Credential)
  • LEE 169 – Inquiry and Puzzles of Practice C (Multiple Subject Credential)
  • EDL 580T – Writing in Academia (Educational Leadership, EdD Program)
Becky has been involved in the field of education since 2002. As a former public school teacher, a mother, a community organizer, and through her academic work, she advocates for democratic policies and practices in the public’s schools. She now has the privilege of putting to use her teaching and learning experiences in her work with future teachers and leaders in the Central Valley.
Becky maintains research interests in philosophy of education; the application of John Dewey’s theories of inquiry and democracy to inclusive and transformative learning communities; education policy and history of education in the U.S.; the aesthetic and moral dimensions of the craft of teaching; and grassroots education movements and the persistent struggle to make public schools more humane.

Noël Smith, B. L. & Hewitt, R. (2022). Deweyan ‘soul’ as conceived in his early work. Education & Culture, 38(2), 26-46.

Noël Smith, B. L. (2022). Care amid ambiguity or, more appropriately, a plea to go old school with the new tools. Italian Journal of Educational Technology.

Noël Smith, B. L., & Hewitt, R. (2020). Love in education and the art of living. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Studies in the Philosophy of Education Series.

Noël Smith, B. L. (2019) The art of loving in the craft of teaching. Philosophical Studies in Education, 50, 35-45.

Noël Smith, B. L. (2018). Public transparency, student privacy, and technological persuasion in education: Refining some concerns of opt out. Thresholds in Education, 41(3), 201-219.

Rosa, R., Noël Smith, B. L., Smith, C., Campos-Martinez, J. (2014). The advancing endgame revolt! Dialogues with activists & community organizers in the trenches. In R. D. Rosa & J. J. Rosa (Eds.), Capitalism’s Educational Catastrophe & the Advancing Endgame Revolt!  New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers.

Noël Smith, B. L., & Shaw, M. L. (2014). Art as resistance: Creating and collecting content for a public lesson on standardization. Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, 11(1), 5-17.

Noël Smith, B. L. (2013). Unlearning with the ‘dystopian youth:’ Sating student hunger with The Hunger Games. In J. A. Heybach & E. C. Sheffield (Eds.), Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of Utopia-gone Wrong. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.