Walking as Critical Inquiry

Alexandra Lasczik is Professor, Arts and Education in the Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus. She is Research co- Leader of the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Cluster [SEAE]. Lexi is an expert educator with almost 40 years' experience in the Visual Arts. She is also an artist whose chosen mediums are painting, photography, poetry, walking and creative writing. Travel, movement and migrations are central themes in Lexi's work, as are the Arts and Arts-based Educational Research (ABER), particularly A/r/tography, C/a/rtography and Walkography. Lexi is an Artivist, committed to equity and social justice, and her spirited advocacy of a high-quality Arts education for all spans across her entire career. Lexi brings extensive teaching experience in the Arts in Australia and internationally and is a specialist with respect to the Visual Arts, teaching and learning, creative curriculum design and innovative pedagogies, with particular expertise in the engagement of at-risk youth through the Arts. Lexi brings this extensive experience and depth of understanding of the sector to her influential work in teacher education at Southern Cross University.

Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the 'Sustainability, Environment, the Arts in Education' (SEAE) Research Cluster. Amy has been recognised nationally and internationally for her teaching and research excellence. Amy's research focuses on the conceptualisation and articulation of environmental education and sustainability in childhood, schools, teacher education, higher education and community. She has explicit expertise in child-framed research methodologies. Amy has generated substantial external research income - including 2 Australian Research Council Discovery grants. She has led over 40 research projects in environmental education and published over 150 publications largely centred on ontologies in/as nature through posthuman theoretical orientations. Her current research projects are focussed on climate change education, nature play and experiential pedagogies.

David Rousell is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Education at RMIT University, where he is a core member of the Creative Agency Lab and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, and adjunct Research Fellow at Southern Cross University. He currently teaches and coordinates courses across the areas of art and design education, critical policy studies, and education futures. His courses bring a strong commitment to social justice and creative pedagogies to address the shifting landscapes of 21st century teaching and learning. His research combines theoretical work in affect and sensory studies, new materialisms, and post-humanismwith his professional background as an environmental artist, designer, and arts educator. David has published widely across the fields of environmental and sustainability education, arts education, childhood studies, media studies, and the philosophy of education. His work also contributes to methodological innovations in education and social research, focusing on the development of new methods that combine artistic, digital, and ethnographic approaches to social mapping.

亞歷山德拉·拉斯齊克（Alexandra Lasczik）是南十字星大學（Southern Cross University）教育學院的藝術與教育教授，任教於黃金海岸校區。她是可持續性、環境與藝術教育研究群（Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Cluster, SEAE）的研究共同領導者。拉斯齊克是一位擁有近40年視覺藝術經驗的專家教育工作者，同時也是一位藝術家，擅長的媒介包括繪畫、攝影、詩歌、步行和創意寫作。旅行、運動和遷徙是拉斯齊克作品中的核心主題，藝術和基於藝術的教育研究（Arts-based Educational Research, ABER）同樣重要，特別是A/r/tography、C/a/rtography和Walkography。拉斯齊克是一位藝術行動者（Artivist），致力於公平和社會正義，她對所有人提供高品質藝術教育的熱情貫穿了她的整個職業生涯。拉斯齊克在澳大利亞及國際上擁有豐富的藝術教學經驗，專精於視覺藝術、教學與學習、創意課程設計和創新教學法，尤其在通過藝術吸引高風險青少年方面具有特別的專業知識。她將這些豐富的經驗和對該領域的深刻理解帶入南十字星大學的教師教育工作中。

艾米·卡特-麥肯齊-諾爾斯（Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles）是教育學院的執行院長，也是「可持續性、環境與藝術教育」（Sustainability, Environment, the Arts in Education, SEAE）研究群的研究領導者。艾米因其教學和研究卓越而在國內外獲得認可。她的研究專注於幼兒、學校、教師教育、高等教育和社區中環境教育和可持續性的概念化與表述。她在以兒童為框架的研究方法論方面具有明確的專業知識。艾米創造了可觀的外部研究收入，包括兩項澳大利亞研究委員會（Australian Research Council）發現獎勵。她主導了40多個環境教育研究項目，並發表了150多篇主要集中於後人類理論取向下的本體論的出版物。她目前的研究項目專注於氣候變遷教育、自然遊戲和體驗式教學法。

大衛·魯塞爾（David Rousell）是RMIT大學創意教育的高級講師，並且是創意代理實驗室（Creative Agency Lab）和數位人類學研究中心（Digital Ethnography Research Centre）的核心成員。他是曼徹斯特城市大學（Manchester Metropolitan University）的訪問研究員，以及南十字星大學的兼任研究員。他目前教授並協調藝術與設計教育、批判政策研究和教育未來等領域的課程。他的課程強調社會正義和創意教學法，以應對21世紀教學與學習的變遷。他的研究結合了情感與感官研究、新物質主義和後人類主義的理論工作，以及他作為環境藝術家、設計師和藝術教育者的專業背景。大衛在環境與可持續性教育、藝術教育、兒童研究、媒體研究和教育哲學等領域廣泛發表作品。他的工作還促進了教育和社會研究中的方法論創新，專注於開發結合藝術、數位和人類學方法的新方法，以進行社會映射。