Annette Gough

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Annette Elizabeth Gough OAM (born 1950) is an Australian science and environmental education scholar and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. [1] She is a pioneer of the environmental education movement in Australia. [2] Gough is known for her critical analysis of the history of the field [3] and for introducing a gender dimension in environmental education research. [4] Although best known for this work, Gough has also made important contributions to science education, research methodology and gender studies. [5]

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Early life and education

Gough was born in Melbourne, Victoria, where she completed a BSc in Education and a Master of Education at the University of Melbourne. Gough joined the Australian Government’s Curriculum Development Centre in 1974 to work on the dissemination of the Australian Science Education Project. [6] She transitioned to working on the development of the new field of environmental education [7] which she documented in her Master of Education thesis, Environmental Education in Australia: Phenomenon of the Seventies – A Case Study in National Curriculum Action. [8]

At the Curriculum Development Centre Gough took on coordination of the national environmental education program (1976–1981), [9] which was the origins of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE). [10] In 1984 Gough was appointed as president of the AAEE. [11] When the Curriculum Development Centre was disbanded in 1982 [12] Gough took up the position of Director of Environmental Education in the Australian Department of Home Affairs and Environment (1983–1987). While with the Department, Gough led the Australian delegation to the UNESCO–UNEP International Congress on Environmental Education and Training. [13]

Career as an academic

Gough was appointed as a lecturer in science and environmental education in the Faculty of Education at Deakin University in May 1990. [14] While at Deakin she completed her PhD [15] and made significant contributions to the field through her roles as managing editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (1998–2002), and other organisations. These contributions were recognised by the Australian Association for Environmental Education making her a life fellow in 1992. [16]

In 2005 Gough was appointed as Dean of the School of Education at RMIT University, a position she held until 2013. Since that time she has engaged in a range of roles within the University and was appointed Professor Emerita in 2015, retiring in 2020.

While Dean, Gough co-authored Australia’s second national statement on environmental education for schools for the Curriculum Corporation and the Australian Department of Arts and Heritage, [17] after having written the first national statement in 1980. [18]

In 2023 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to tertiary education and environmental education. [19]

Professional works

Gough has been involved in writing curriculum materials and educational resources for teachers for much of her career. These include [20] two editions of the textbook for the Victorian senior secondary Outdoor and Environmental Studies subject. [21] [22]

Her major research monograph [23] provides a broad appreciation of the emergence of environmental education as 'a history' of the field. Gough elaborates upon the early formation of the central associated issues, examining the processes that have moved towards international and national consensus. It is this background that positions the significance of her research as an imperative beyond the 1990's [and] questions the domination of Anglo-American English speaking hegemony and the androcentric paradigms which have driven the agenda in environmental education to date”. [24]

Her advocacy for a feminist perspective in environmental education started with her doctoral research and continues. [25] During the 2000s she has also pursued research into cyborg/posthuman/more-than human studies as they relate to environmental and science education [26] [27] [28]

Through each of these threads of research Gough is endeavouring to reshape and find new pathways for the fields of her interest. As John Weaver wrote, “Annette Gough’s personal accounting of reshaping her body and identity as she becomes posthuman demonstrates a new path for curriculum studies scholars and autobiography”. [29]

Other activities

From 2006 to 2021 Gough was a Managing Trustee for the King and Amy O’Malley Trust and Chair of the Scholarship Advisory Committee from 2010–2021. [30]

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor Annette Gough - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  2. ↑ Karena, C. 2010) Environmental education in Australian schools. ECOS Magazine. http://www.ecosmagazine.com/print/EC155p16.htm
  3. ↑ Gough, A. (2013). The Emergence of Environmental Education: a ‘history’ of the field. In R.B. Stevenson, M. Brody, J. Dillon, & A. Wals (Eds.), International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education (pp.13-22). New York: Routledge for the American Educational Research Association.
  4. ↑ Russell, C., & Fawcett, L. (2013). Moving margins in environmental education research. In R. B. Stevenson, M. Brody, J. Dillon & A. Wals (Eds.), International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education (pp. 369-374). New York: Routledge.
  5. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org.
  6. ↑ Gill, W. (1991). The Australian Science Education Project: a case study in curriculum implementation. Master of Education coursework thesis. Parkville: University of Melbourne. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/42683
  7. ↑ McCrea, E. (2006). The roots of environmental education: How the past supports the future. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED491084.pdf.
  8. ↑ Greenall, A. (1981) Environmental Education in Australia: Phenomenon of the Seventies - A Case Study in National Curriculum Action. Occasional Paper No.7. Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre.
  9. ↑ Tasar, M.F. (2009). Challenges in environmental education: A conversation with Annette Gough. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 5(3), 187-196; ozEEnews, 132, p.9.
  10. ↑ ozEEnews, 132; www.aaee.org.au.
  11. ↑ "AAEE Presidents" (PDF). Australian Association for Environmental Education. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  12. ↑ "Curriculum Development Centre - Organisation - Curriculum Policy Archive". scpp.esrc.unimelb.edu.au.
  13. ↑ "International strategy for action in the field of environmental education and training for the 1990s". UNESCDOC Digital Library. 1988. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  14. ↑ "Deakin University celebrates Australia Day 2023 Honours List appointees". Deakin University. 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  15. ↑ Greenall Gough, Annette; Deakin University. Faculty of Education (1994), Fathoming the fathers in environmental education : a feminist poststructuralist analysis , retrieved 29 April 2023
  16. ↑ Robottom, I. (1992). Congratulations to Annette Greenall Gough-The Newest Fellow of AAEE Inc. ozEEnews, 52, 5.
  17. ↑ Curriculum Corporation. (2005). Educating for a Sustainable Future: A National Statement on Environmental Education for Schools. Carlton South: Curriculum Corporation for the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage
  18. ↑ Greenall, A. (1980). Environmental Education for Schools or how to catch environmental education. Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre.
  19. ↑ "Professor Emerita Annette Elizabeth GOUGH". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  20. ↑ Greenall, A. (1978). Environmental Education Teachers' Handbook. Melbourne: Longman-Cheshire.
  21. ↑ Black, J., Geary, J., Gough, A., & Pleasants, K. (2002). Outdoor and Environmental Studies: VCE Units 1 to 4. Tuggerah, NSW: Social Science Press.
  22. ↑ Gough, A., Black, J., & Pleasants, K. (2005). Outdoor and Environmental Studies: VCE Units 1 to 4. Second edition. South Melbourne: Thomson Learning Australia.
  23. ↑ Gough, A. (1997). Education and the Environment: Policy, Trends and the Problems of Marginalisation. Australian Education Review Series No.39. Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Council for Educational Research
  24. ↑ Lumis, G. (1998). Gough, A. (1997). Education and the Environment. Policy, Trends and the Problems of Marginalisation. Melbourne: The Australian Council for Research Ltd, 204 pages. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 23(1), 45, 46, 47.
  25. ↑ Russell, C., & Fawcett, L. (2013). Moving margins in environmental education research. In R. B. Stevenson, M. Brody, J. Dillon & A. Wals (Eds.), International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education (pp. 369-374). New York: Routledge
  26. ↑ Gough, A. (2003). Embodying a Mine Site: Enacting Cyborg Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 19, 33-47.
  27. ↑ Gough, A. (2004). Blurring Boundaries: Embodying cyborg subjectivity and methodology. In H. Piper & I. Stronach (Eds.), Educational Research: Difference and Diversity (pp.113-127). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
  28. ↑ Gough, A. (2005). Body/mine: A chaos narrative of cyborg subjectivities and liminal experiences. Women's Studies, 34(3-4), 249-264
  29. ↑ Weaver, J. A. (2010). Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies. Sense Publishers, p.31.
  30. ↑ "Reflections on 15 years with the O'Malley Trust: An unintentional adventure in changing times". King & Amy O'Malley Trust.
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