Hilary Whitehouse is an educator with a strong committment to researching, learning and teaching science education, environmental education, education for sustainability, and research education. Her current research interests are in climate change education, and exploring the illuminations of new ecofeminism and feminist new materialism. She lives in Cairns because she loves rainforests and reefs. 

Hilary is an executive editor of the Journal of Environmental Education ISSN 0095-8964, EISSN 1940-1892 (2017 IF 2.472) ranked in the top 15% of education journals in the world and in the top third of environmental studies journals.

Hilary is a member of the international advisory board for the Australian Journal of Environmental Education ISSN 0095-8964, EISSN 1940-1892, and a life member of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE). This year (2018), she is Program Director for the 20th Biannual AAEE Creating Capacity for Change Conference to be held at Southern Cross University, October 21 - 25, Gold Coast. 

HIlary was the JCU team leader for the OLT (Category 1) Step Up Project (2013-2016) that focussed on enhancing the quality and quantity of science teaching in north Queensland, see http://www.stepup.edu.au

As part of her university leadership position as Deputy Dean of the Graduate Research School, Hilary looks after higher degree by research (HDR) students on the Cairns campus and ensures the Postgraduate Centre is a comfortable and safe place for collegiality and study. As Deputy Dean she serves on the University's Research Education Sub-Commiitte as an Executive member. She is working with the GRS team to further develop the curriculum and pedagogy for masters level research education and HDR supervisor training to enhance research student experience.

Hilary is part of the University's Sustainable Development Working Group considering the inplementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through the University's SDG Implementation Plan. 

She also serves as the Ethics Advisor for Education.

In 2017 / 2018, Hilary has coordinated and taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in early childhood science education (ED3092), secondary pedagogy (ED3293), undergraduate and postgraduate education for sustainability (ED1411, ED5911, ED5912) and postgraduate research education (ED5190, ED5095).

Hilary's higher degree students are experienced, professional educators looking to further develop their knowledge and skills through innovative research that make a contribution to education praxis.

 

 

Interests

Research

• Climate change education
• Education for sustainability
• Science education
• Gender

Experience

• 2011 to 2018 - Associate Professor, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2007 to 2010 - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2002 to 2006 - Lecturer, James Cook University (Cairns)

Research Disciplines

• Specialist Studies in Education (1303)
• Curriculum and Pedagogy (1302)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Education and Training (9399)
• Curriculum (9303)
• Teaching and Instruction (9302)

Awards

• 2016 - JCU TropEco Leadership and Governance Highly Commended, with Dr Maxine Newlands, for the Eco-Feminism, Educators and Climate Change Symposium, July 2016.
• 2015 - JCU TropEco Learning and Teaching Award, with A/P Margaret Carter, for ensuring ecologically literate, post-graduate education leaders with the skills and expertise to make a positive contribution to society.
• 2006 - Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching - Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, for leadership in ... fostering of science and environmental education as twenty-first century curriculum.

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Journal Articles

• Gough A and Whitehouse H (2018) New vintages and new bottles: the "nature" of environmental education from new material feminist and ecofeminist viewpoints. Journal of Environmental Education, 49 (4). pp. 336-349
• Njaramba J, Chigeza P and Whitehouse H (2018) Barriers and challenges experienced by migrant African women entrepreneurs in North Queensland, Australia. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 5 (4). pp. 1054-1068
• Thorne M and Whitehouse H (2018) Environmental stewardship education in the Anthropocene (part two): a learning for environmental stewardship conceptual framework. The Social Educator, 36 (1). pp. 17-28
• Whitehouse H (2018) Questions of ecopedagogy in tropical oceanScapes in the age of coral ecocide: an autoethnographic description. Journal of Environmental Education, 49 (2). pp. 142-151
• Stevenson R, Nicholls J and Whitehouse H (2017) What is climate change education? Curriculum Perspectives, 37 (1). pp. 67-71
• Thorne M and Whitehouse H (2017) Environmental stewardship education in the Anthropocene: what have we learned from recent research in North Queensland schools adjacent to the Wet Tropics? The Social Educator, 35 (1). pp. 17-27
• Walsh C and Whitehouse H (2017) Disrupting the megatrend of the climate emergency through the Australian curriculum: technologies. Curriculum Perspectives, 37. pp. 91-98
• Whitehouse H, Taylor M, Evans N, Doyle T, Sellwood J and Zee R (2017) A sea country learning partnership in times of anthropocenic risk: offshore coral reef education and our story of practice. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 33 (3). pp. 160-170
• Whitehouse H (2017) Point and counterpoint: climate change education. Curriculum Perspectives, 37 (1). pp. 63-65

Book Chapters

• Whitehouse H, Evans N, Jackson C and Thorne M (in press) Children caring for the Australian wet tropics as a response to the anthropocene. In: Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham, Switzerland
• Whitehouse H (2016) The new realism: a rationale for supporting children's climate activism. In: Education in Times of Environmental Crises: teaching children to be agents of change. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 161-170

Conference Papers

• Carter M and Whitehouse H (2016) Changing landscapes for sustainability education in Higher Education. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education Conference. In: NZAEE 2016: Conference of the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education, 9-12 February 2016, Auckland, New Zealand

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Current

• Improving Outcomes for First Year Students Learning Anatomy and Physiology in the Health Sciences. (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Luk Luk Tambaran: Educational Media Representation of New Ireland Performance Art (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Indigenising Education - an Investigation of Torres Strait Islander Perspectives (Masters , Primary Advisor)
• STEM Implementation: A case study in the Queensland context (working title) (Masters , Primary Advisor/AM)
• A needs analysis for developng language teaching resources for the Wakka Wakka community (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Young peoples' disengagement from education: hearing parent voices (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Writing in Role: A Creative New Process to Engage and Motivate Students in Literacy (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Outcomes Assessments in Undergraduate Veterinary Science Education. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Entrepreneurship Education Through a Feminist Lens: The Case of Migrant African Australian Women Entrepreneurs in North Queensland, Australia. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• Implementing Engagement Programs for Disengaged Students in Secondary Schools. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• Learn for Life (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• Defining Nannagogy: Investigating Older Women’s Environmental Citizenship Learning through the Experiences of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• Education for Sustainability in a Difficult Political Climate: A Social Learning Model (PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Completed

• The potential and pitfalls of blended learning: an investigation of student and teacher perceptions of blended learning in two Australian secondary science classes (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Understanding how Queensland teachers' views on climate change and climate change education shape their reported practices (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Cosmic warfare: changing models of the universe and C.S. Lewis's defence of truth and meaning (2017, PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Learning for environmental stewardship in the Anthropocene: a study with young adolescents in the Wet Tropics (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• A case study of academics' epistemic-pedagogic identity in the context of neoliberalism (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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• Williams, K. (2018) Evans State College (pseudonym) interview data from two educators. James Cook University
• Guirguis, F. (2016) Modern Arnis and adult pedagogy: a unique project . James Cook University

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