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Helen is a lecturer in science, sustainability, health and wellbeing education and a Research Fellow at ISILC (Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities) at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on her past work as a school teacher and environmental education project manager, Helen's research focuses on identifying the connections between people and planetary wellbeing – particularly people’s interactions and relationships with place, space and nature. Her research incorporates intercultural environmental learning and links with initial teacher education.

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Employment (7)

Southern Cross University: Lismore, AU

2021 to present | Research Fellow (Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Cluster)
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Victoria University: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2013-06-24 to present | Lecturer/ Research Fellow (ISILC (Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities) & College of Arts & Education)
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Southern Cross University: Lismore, NSW, AU

2012 to 2013 | Research Assistant (Education)
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Cornish College : Melbourne, Victoria, AU

2009 to 2011 | Teacher
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Monash University - Peninsula Campus: Frankston, VIC, AU

2008 | Lecturer, Research Assistant and PhD student (Education)
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Gould League Environmental Education NGO: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1989 to 2007 | Project manager and Deputy CEO
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Greening Australia: Victoria, AU

1995 to 1998
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Education and qualifications (5)

Southern Cross University - Gold Coast Campus: Coolangatta, QLD, AU

2015 | PhD (School of Education)
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2001 | MEd (Education)
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1990 | Grad Dip Student Welfare (Education)
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Deakin University: Burwood, VIC, AU

1980 | Grad Dip Ed (Education)
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Monash University: Clayton, VIC, AU

1979 | BSc (Science)
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Professional activities (3)

Australian Journal of Environmental Education: Cambridge, GB

2012 to present | Editorial Board member and reviewer (Cambridge University Press)
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Australian Association for Research in Education: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2016 to 2023 | Co-Convenor (ESE SIG)
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Japanese Journal of Environmental Education : Tokyo, JP

2018 to 2021 | Guest Editor (Environmental Education in Asia 2019; 2021 Special Issues)
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Funding (3)

Online learning module development

2017 to 2017 | Grant
Victoria University (Melbourne , AU)
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Blended Learning Fund

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Places that matter in remote Himalayan India

2016 to 2016 | Grant
Victoria University (Melbourne , VIC, AU)
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College of Arts& Education Research Support Fund

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 Growing Through Education in Remote Village Schools in India program

2015-11 to 2016-12 | Grant
Australian Government (Canberra, AU)
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Works (32)

Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries

International Journal of Science Education
2024 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85185138810

Part of ISSN: 14645289 09500693
Contributors: Ben Zvi Assaraf, O.; Dawson, V.; Eilam, E.; Gokpinar, T.; Goldman, D.; Naugauker, N.; Eka Putri, G.A.P.; Subiantoro, A.W.; Tolppanen, S.; White, P. et al.
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Reshaping teaching in higher education through a mandala of creative pedagogies

Teaching in Higher Education
2024-11-16 | Journal article
Contributors: I. Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Helen Widdop Quinton; Mark Selkrig
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New South Wales Council of Dean of Education (NSWCDE) Grassroots Research Strategy

NSWCDE
2023 | Report
Contributors: Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles; Alexandra Lasczik; Helen Widdop Quinton; Thilinika Wijesinghe; Katie Hotko; Adi Brown
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‘You need to be flexible normally, and here, even more flexible’: teaching academics’ experiences and perceptions of Covid-19 disruptions to teaching, learning, and assessment

Journal of Further and Higher Education
2023-02-07 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 0309-877X
Part of ISSN: 1469-9486
Contributors: Melissah Thomas; KAREN (ZALI) YAGER; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Anxious, Disconnected and ‘Missing Out’, but Oh So Convenient: Tertiary Students’ Perspectives of Remote Teaching and Learning with Covid-19

Australian Journal of Teacher Education
2022-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1835-517X
Contributors: Melissah B. Thomas; Victoria University; Helen Widdop Quinton; Zali Yager; Victoria University; Victoria University
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A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula

International Journal of Science Education
2022-06-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Vaille Dawson; Efrat Eilam; Sakari Tolppanen; Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf; Tuba Gokpinar; Daphne Goldman; Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Agung Wijaya Subiantoro; Peta White; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Playing with Posthumanism with/in/as/for Communities

Arts-Based Thought Experiments for a Posthuman Earth: A Touchstones Companion
2022-03-23 | Book chapter
Contributors: Helen Widdop Quinton
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Teacher education beyond TEMAG requirements

Teacher Education Through Uncertainty and Crisis
2021-11-22 | Book chapter
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Becoming Companions: Compositions of Childhoodnature Relation, Sense, Poetics, and Imagining by Children and Young People

Springer International Handbooks of Education
2020 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85143110449

Part of ISSN: 2197196X 21971951
Contributors: Widdop Quinton, H.; Piersol, L.; Rousell, D.; Russell, J.; Dezan, R.; Shannon, T.; Davis, C.; Maynard, A.; Woodruff, M.
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De-imagining and Reinvigorating Learning with/in/as/for Community, Through Self, Other and Place

Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783030122119
Part of ISBN: 9783030122126
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Mapping-making philosophy in environmental education:<i>Lines, knots and</i><i>knotting</i>

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
2020-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0814-0626
Part of ISSN: 2049-775X
Contributors: Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles; Karen Malone; Alexandra Lasczik; Helen Widdop Quinton; David Rousell
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Resonances: tuning into the echoes of the ecological collective

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
2020-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Helen Widdop Quinton; Kumara Ward; Marilyn Ahearn; Teresa Carapeto
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An ethical re-framing of curriculum for sustainability education

Curriculum Perspectives
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Marie Brennan; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Climate Change Education: Mapping the Nature of Climate Change, the Content Knowledge and Examination of Enactment in Upper Secondary Victorian Curriculum

Sustainability
2020-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Efrat Eilam; Veerendra Prasad; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Becoming Companions: Compositions of Childhoodnature Relation, Sense, Poetics, and Imagining by Children and Young People

Research Handbook on Childhoodnature
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783319519494
Part of ISBN: 9783319519494
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De-imagining and reinvigorating learning with/in/as/for community, through self, other and place

Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning: The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux
2019 | Book chapter
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Contributors: Osborn, M.; Blom, S.; Widdop Quinton, H.; Aguayo, C.
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Research Handbook on Childhoodnature Section 6: Childhoodnature Ecological Systems

Springer International Publishing
2019 | Edited book
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Symposium: Theory Knots in the Anthropocene

AARE 2019 Brisbane
2019-12 | Conference paper
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Childhoodnature Alternatives: Adolescents in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh Explore Their Nature Connectedness

Research Handbook on Childhoodnature
2018 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9783319519494
Part of ISSN: 2197-1951
Contributors: Helen Widdop Quinton; Ferdousi Khatun
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Childhoodnature Ecological Systems and Realities: An Outline

Research Handbook on Childhoodnature
2018 | Other
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Part of ISSN: 2197-1951
Contributors: Marianne Logan; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Posthumanism as a methodological tool in environmental learning research

Contemporary Approaches to Research (Deakin University)
2018-11 | Conference paper
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Growing Through Education in Remote Village Schools in India: International study program report.

Victoria University
2017 | Report
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Featured Panel: Exploring the politics of the Anthropocene and the great unsettling of Environmental Education

2017-11 | Conference paper
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Prospecting nature, sustainability and wellbeing intersects for socioecological learning

AARE 2017 Conference
2017-11 | Conference paper
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Adolescents’ geographies of belonging

Interrogating Belonging In Education Symposium - Critical Studies of Young People in Education (Deakin)
2016-05 | Conference paper
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Childhood Nature Public Scholarship: Disrupting Theory, Methodology, Relationships and Pedagogies

AERA Washington 2016
2016-04 | Conference paper
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ChildhoodNature Place and Pedagogies in Disruption

2016-04-08 | Conference paper
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Places that matter : an exploration of adolescents' valued places, spaces and nature connections

2015 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Is Facebook changing teenagers’ connection to local places?

2014 | Conference paper
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Multicultural School Gardens Research Project: Final Report 2013

2013 | Report
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Child-framed video research methodologies: issues, possibilities and challenges for researching with children

Children's Geographies
2013-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy Cutter-Mackenzie; Susan Edwards; Helen Widdop Quinton
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Exploring the natural-digital world divide with children in different cultural contexts

Seventh World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) Marrakesh
2013-06 | Conference paper
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