A/Prof Hilary Whitehouse ~ Adjunct Associate Professor
Cairns Institute
- About
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- Interests
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- Research
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- Climate change education
- Education for sustainability
- Science education
- Gender
- Experience
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- 2011 to 2021 - 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
- Socio-Economic Objectives
Hilary Whitehouse is a Fellow of the Cairns Institute and educator with a long 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.
Hilary serves as an editor for the Journal of Environmental Education ISSN 0095-8964, EISSN 1940-1892 ranked in the top 15% of education journals in the world and in the top third of environmental studies journals.
She also serves an associate editor for the Australian Journal of Environmental Education ISSN 0095-8964, EISSN 1940-1892, and is a life member of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE).
As Deputy Dean of the Graduate Research School, Hilary looks after higher degree by research (HDR) students, including pastoral care. She serves on the University's Research Education Sub-Commiitte.
She works to develop the curriculum and pedagogy for research education at JCU to enhance research student knowledge and skills. .
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.
Hilary's higher degree students are professional educators looking to further develop their knowledge and skills through innovative research that make a contribution to education praxis.
Hilary volunteers her time and research skills with the small NGO, the Bats and Trees Society of Cairns.
- Honours
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- Awards
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- 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.
- Publications
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These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.
- Journal Articles
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- Whitehouse H and Gough A (2022) Gesturing not acting: Searching for policy guidance for Australian climate educators. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 62 (3). pp. 376-394
- Gough A and Whitehouse H (2020) Challenging amnesias: re-collecting feminist new materialism/ecofeminism/climate/education. Environmental Education Research, 26 (9-10). pp. 1420-1434
- Gough A and Whitehouse H (2019) Centering gender on the agenda for environmental education research. Journal of Environmental Education, 50 (4-6). pp. 332-347
- Larri L and Whitehouse H (2019) Nannagogy: social movement learning for older women's activism in the gas fields of Australia. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 59 (1). pp. 27-52
- 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
- Book Chapters
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- Whitehouse H (2022) The Extinction Crisis. In: The Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 221-232
- Adam R, Whitehouse H, Stevenson R and Chigeza P (2019) The socioecological (un)learner: unlearning binary oppositions and the wicked problems of the Anthropocene. In: Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: the Anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 49-74
- Whitehouse H, Evans N, Jackson C and Thorne M (2018) 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
- More
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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 76+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Hilary Whitehouse from 1993 onwards.
- Supervision
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Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.
These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.
- Current
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- My journey towards language: An Autoethnography of Wakka Wakka Reclamation (Masters , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
- Transdisciplinary STEM Curriculum Enactment: An Exploratory Case Study in the Queensland Context (Masters , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
- Young peoples' disengagement from education: hearing parent voices (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
- Children's Perceptions of Hope for our Future World (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
- Outcomes Assessments in Undergraduate Veterinary Science Education. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
- Outcomes of Implementing a Blended Teaching Methodology Into a Regional University Professional Undergraduate Degree (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
- Completed
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- Andragogy - the art and science of teaching adults: a personal study of occupational health and safety education in South Korean shipyards (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
- Writing in role: a creative new process to engage and motivate students in literacy (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
- Researching nannagogy: a case study celebrating women in their prime crafting eco-activism (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor)
- Contextualised policy enactment in regional, rural and remote schools: a grounded theory study (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
- Understanding small business entrepreneurship among migrant African women in North Queensland: a feminist study of lived experience and learning (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
- 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)
- Luk Luk Tambaran: Educational Media Representation of New Ireland Performance Art (2022, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
- Data
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These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit Research Data Australia.
- 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
- Collaboration
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The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
Note: Map points are indicative of the countries or states that institutions are associated with.- 5+ collaborations
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- 1 collaboration
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