Ecofeminisms and education: repositioning gender and environment in education

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Annette Gough

Annette Gough OAM is Professor Emerita of Science and Environmental Education in the School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She has been an adjunct/visiting professor at universities in Canada, South Africa and Hong Kong, and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (since 1992). She is author of Gender and environmental education: Feminist and other(ed) perspectives (Routledge 2024) and Education and the environment: Policy, trends and the problems of marginalisation (ACER 1997), and co-editor of Green schools globally: Stories of impact on education for sustainable development (Springer 2020) among many other publications. Her research interests span environmental, sustainability and science education, research methodologies, posthuman and gender studies.

Yi Chien Jade Ho

Yi Chien Jade Ho is a Post-doctoral Fellow with the School of Public Health and Social Policy at University of Victoria, BC. She works to support Indigenous frontline workers' effort in building autonomy and community-centered responses to the overdose and housing crisis, as well as building cross-racial tenant organizing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Chinatown in combatting housing exploitation, racism, and colonial policing and neglect. Jade's doctoral work, Radical Pedagogy of Place: A Decolonial Feminist Narrative Exploration of Returning, Organizing and Resisting, centres on developing a decolonial place-based pedagogy through focusing on the connection between place, land, and identity in marginalized communities in Taiwan and in Vancouver.

Teresa Lloro

Teresa Lloro is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Studies Department and Director of the Master's in Regenerative Studies Program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She teaches courses in the environmental studies and sciences, with a focus on environmental and science education, human-animal studies, just food systems, and regenerative social practices. She is the author of Animal Edutainment in a Neoliberal Era (Peter Lang), lead co-editor of Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Constance Russell

Constance Russell is a Professor and Lakehead University Research Chair in Environmental Education in the Faculty of Education of Lakehead University in Canada where she teaches courses on environmental education, social justice education, animal-focused education, and food education. She is an award-winning author, the co-editor of The Fat Pedagogy Reader: Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education (Peter Lang), and the former editor of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.

Shirley Walters

Shirley Walters is deeply influenced by the oceans and mountains where she lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is committed to the personal and political work of unlearning separation and relearning relationality in the interests of justice. She is an ecofeminist activist-scholar and professor emerita of adult and continuing education at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). She was founding director of UWC's Centre for Adult and Continuing Education and Division for Lifelong Learning. She has been active within justice oriented civil society organisations for over 40 years both locally and globally. She is currently president of Pascal International Members Association (PIMA), an international network of adult educators and lifelong learning practitioners and scholar-activists.

Hilary Whitehouse

Hilary Whitehouse is an adjunct Associate Professor with The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, and a life member of the Australian Association for Environmental Education. Before retirement she worked as a teacher educator and in a position supporting post-graduate research. She is known for her scholarship on gender, climate change education, anti-extinction education, and sustainability education. She is an editor with The Journal of Environmental Education and the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. She currently volunteers her time with a small, conservation, not-for profit, The Bats and Trees Society of Cairns.