Jo-Anne Ferreira Author

Assoc. Professor Jo-Anne Ferreira is Director of the Centre for Teaching & Learning and Academic Director, SCU Online at Southern Cross University, Bilinga, Australia. Her research focuses on online education and the sociology of education with a special interest in post-structuralist theories of identity, embodiment and power; in systems-based change; and in environmental and sustainability education.

Dr Neus (Snowy) Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Education at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, where she is coordinator of the Master of Teaching and Learning (Primary) program. Her research interests include socio-ecological resilience and sustainability education in schools and initial teacher education; teacher professional practice; and pedagogy and place; with a particular interest in the intersection between teacher professional practice and sustainability theory, policy and practice.

Prof. Julie Davis is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. A world leader in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS), with over 100 publications, she was sole-editor of the first textbook on young children’s learning and EfS for early childhood initial teacher education students, translated into Korean and Chinese. She also co-edited the first research text on ECEfS, which problematizes ECEfS theory and practice, also translated into Korean.

Prof. Bob Stevenson is an Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, and was previously Tropical Research Leader (EfS) at The Cairns Institute, and Director of the Centre for Sustainability Education. He was lead editor of the International Handbook of Research in Environmental Education and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Education. His scholarly interests include theory-policy-practice relationships in environmental and sustainability education; leadership and teacher professional development; and potential spaces and approaches to engage youth in deep thinking about and acting on socio-ecological issues.