Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE)

This research concentration was established in 2012 and is co-led by Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles and Professor Alexandra Lasczik.

The Sustainability, Environment, the Arts and Education (SEAE) Research Cluster is globally recognised for enacting profound change in/through transdisciplinary environmental and Arts education research that disrupts and generates new ways of being and becoming, which provokes dynamic responses to critical local-global calamities.

The cluster is a pre-eminent transdisciplinary concentration of creative researchers engaging in transformational research in environmental and Arts education ‘that matters’.

   

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The SEAE Research Cluster squarely:

1. Engages in creative research practices to disrupt and transform ecological thought and action in the context of anthropogenic climate change
2. Stimulates transformation of/through nature interrelationships in the Anthropocene;
3. Engages and foregrounds Indigenous philosophies and knowings
4. Actively disrupts and transforms models of education (curriculum, pedagogy and policy) through ecological and artful positionings
5. Interrogates and advances a range of theories in posthuman, socioecological, poststructural, and intersectional feminism
6. Interrogates and advances a range of methodologies including post qualitative, Arts-based, child/youth-framed, and participatory research
7. Enacts public pedagogy through ecological and artful practice
8. Communicates and disseminates research discovery through transformative and creative impact and engagement modalities.

SEAE Impact and Engagement:

1. SEAE’s research impact in childhood environmental education evaluated at the highest level in Australia’s Engagement and Impact evaluation
2. Dr Angela Turner: Facilitated teacher professional learning through authentic the development of a STEM teaching program in the context of food sustainability
3. UK Conversation article by Dr David Rousell & Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (Climate Change School Strikes)
4. New grant awarded by the Australian Association for Environmental Education in the Climate Change + Me International Research Program
5. New book on Socioecological Learning by SEAE Researchers – Palgrave McMillian
6. Associate Professor Louise Phillips: ‘Exhausted beyond measure’: what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education (The Conversation, August 4, 2020)
7. Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Associate Professor Lexi Lasczik, Dr Marianne Logan, Megan Pedler, Peter Cook: Australian Association for Research in Education Conference (December 2019)
8. Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles and Dr Marianne Logan: The 10th World Environmental Education Congress, Bangkok, Thailand (November 2019)

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