Annette Gough

Annette Gough OAM is Professor Emerita of Science and Environmental Education in the School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. After completing a degree in biological sciences and education at The University of Melbourne she went on teach in secondary schools in Melbourne before joining the Australian Government’s Curriculum Development Centre to work on the dissemination of the Australian Science Education Project materials. Her postgraduate research initially focused on the politics of the development of environmental education in Australia and then expanded to an analysis of the foundations of the field internationally. More recently she has also engaged in program evaluations such as the implementation of the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Program in Victorian government schools, and in developing a national disaster risk reduction and resilience strategy. She is author of Gender and environmental education: Feminist and other(ed) perspectives (Routledge 2024) and Education and the environment: Policy, trends and the problems of marginalisation (ACER Press, 1997), co-editor of the Springer book series International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, co-editor of Green schools globally: Stories of impact on education for sustainable development. She is an editorial board member for Environmental Education Research, the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. She was President of the Australian Association for Environmental Education from 1984 to 1986 and made a life fellow of the Association in 1992, she was also awarded Victorian Environmental Educator of the Year in 2000. In 2023 she was recognised in the Australia Day honours for her service to environmental education and tertiary education and awarded an Order of Australia Medal.