Jo Raphael (BEd, MEd, PhD, SFHEA)
School of Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria.
Jo Raphael is senior lecturer in drama education at Deakin University. She teaches in postgraduate and undergraduate pre-service teacher education programs and remains active in school and community settings. She has applied drama for learning within diverse contexts including museums and galleries and in areas of the humanities, languages, science and environmental sustainability. Jo is Artistic Director of Fusion Theatre, an inclusive community-based theatre company. She has won multiple awards for her teaching and has been awarded for her extensive contributions to her professional community. Her research and publications span the areas of arts curriculum and pedagogy, teacher education, inclusive education and teaching for diversity. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5220-314X
Peta J. White (BSc Hons, Mas Rur Sys Man, PhD, GCHE, SFHEA)
School of Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria.
Peta White is a science and environmental education senior lecturer at Deakin University. Peta has worked in classrooms, as a curriculum consultant and manager, and as a teacher educator in several jurisdictions across Canada and Australia. Peta gained her PhD in Saskatchewan, Canada where she focussed on learning to live sustainably which became a platform from which to educate future teachers. Her passion for initial teacher educator, environmental education/academic activist work, and action-orientated methodologies drives her current teaching/research scholarship. Peta’s current research interests follows three directions including science and biology education, sustainability, climate change, and environmental education, and collaborative/activist research. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0225-5934
Kitty van Cuylenburg (BA/BSc Hons, MTeach)
School of
Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria.
Kitty is a VIT registered drama and science teacher, a Teaching and Leadership advisor for Teach for Australia, and theatre maker and board member of In The Park Productions. She has a background in mine-site hydrogeology, has worked for an education startup in NYC, performed in and produced theatre in Melbourne (MICF, MIFF), and has a passion for interdisciplinary practice of science and drama. She is an erstwhile research student at Deakin University, and undertakes action research in this space through her teaching practice. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3924-4718