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Katrien Van Poeck is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University's Centre for Sustainable Development. She conducts and supervises research projects on experiential learning in the context of urban sustainability transitions and on sustainability in higher education, and coordinates the international research networks SEDwise ('Sustainability Education – Teaching and learning in the face of wicked socio-ecological problems') and 'Public pedagogy and sustainability challenges'. Empirically and theoretically examining education's role in building a more sustainable world, she aims to contribute to progressing scholarship on the relation between educative and political spaces. Jonas A. Lysgaard is Associate Professor in the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark. He conducts research on environmental and sustainability education that draws on theoretical perspectives inspired by Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary perspectives on materiality. His recent studies include work on educational ideals and philosophies of education, nature and realism as these apply to climate change, sustainable schools initiatives and health promotion. Alan Reid is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. He is the editor of the research journal, Environmental Education Research. He conducts a range of studies focused on teachers’ thinking and practice in environmental and sustainability education, and associated traditions, capacities and issues in theory, research and practice. He is particularly interested in the history and possible future of the field.