Outdoor Education & Environmental Education

Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education

Staff Profile

Dr Noel Gough

Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Room/Location: Ironbark Centre, 2.17
Ph: 5444 7487
Fx: 5444 7848
Email: n.gough@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications
•  PhD Deakin University 2003
•  MEd University of Melbourne 1975
•  BA University of Melbourne 1976
•  BEd University of Melbourne 1969
•  DipEd University of Melbourne 1967
•  BSc University of Melbourne 1966

Teaching Areas
•  Research Methodology
•  Environmental Education

Supervision
•  Current PhD and Masters students

Professional Involvement

• Current and Founding Editor: Transnational Curriculum Inquiry: The Journal of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
  
• Current Editorial Board Memberships: Canadian Journal of Education, Curriculum Matters (New Zealand), Journal of Curriculum Studies (Taiwan), International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Journal of Curriculum Studies (International), Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (USA), Managing Global Transitions: International Research Journal (Slovenia), Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (USA), International Journal of Education and the Arts
• Coeditor (1999-2002) and Advisory Editor (1989-95): Australian Journal of Environmental Education
• Coeditor: ozEEnews (newsletter of the Australian Association for Environmental Education) (1988-90)
• Member: Research Commission of the North American Association for Environmental Education
• Member: National Management Committee of Future Problem Solving Australia (1997-2004)
• Member: Education Advisory Committee of Greening Australia Victoria (1991-2000)
• Member: Outdoor Education Course Advisory Committee, La Trobe University , Bendigo , Victoria (1988-1999)
• Member: Panel of examiners for Higher School Certificate (1983-86) and Victorian Certificate of Education (1987-91) Environmental Science and Environmental Studies (1992-97)
• Member: Commission on Education and Training of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1988-91)
• Member: Environmental Science Feasibility Study Group of the Australian Academy of Science (1986-90)
• Chair, Ministry of Education (School Programs Branch) Working Party on Implementation of the State Conservation Strategy for Victoria (1988-89)
• Invited Australian delegate: Unesco-UNEP International Congress on Environmental Education and Training, Moscow USSR , 17-21 August 1987
• Chair, Environmental Education Curriculum Committee, Ministry of Education, Victoria (and foundation member from 1983) (1985-87)
• Professional assocation memberships and offices held include: American Educational Research Association - Executive member and Program Co-chair of Special Interest Group: Ecological and Environmental Education (1995-96), Co-founder and Executive member of Special Interest Group: Chaos and Complexity Theory in Education (1995-98), Executive member of Special Interest Group: Semiotics and Education (since 1996); Australian Association for Environmental Education - Member of Executive and Council (1988-90); Australian Association for Research in Education; Australian College of Educators - Member of the National Council's Research Committee (1985-87); Australian Curriculum Studies Association - Member of the National Steering Committee of the Curriculum Interest Group which founded ACSA (1982-3); International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies; Society of Professors of Curriculum; Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
• President (2008) Australian Association for Research in Education

Research Interests

• Environmental education: environmental education has been one of my most enduring and significant research interests, as was recognised in 1997 by my being awarded the inaugural Australian Museum Allen Strom Eureka Prize for Environmental Education for 'environmental education research of a substantive nature which contributes to professional thinking and practice'. The prize citation states that it was awarded 'for research on recent cultural and philosophical movements, such as postmodernism, which has translated and applied complex social theories to theory and practice in environmental education'.
• Other research interests include: internationalisation, globalisation and curriculum change; science education; narrative and other arts-based methodologies in educational inquiry; popular media culture in/and education; poststructuralist and postcolonialist analyses of curriculum.

Selected Publications and Presentations

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Refereed articles

Gough, Noel. (2008). Narrative experiments and imaginative inquiry. South African Journal of Education, 28(3), 335-349

Gough, Noel. (2007). Crime fiction and educational inquiry: reading, writing, and intertextual play. Noavari-ha-ye Amuzeshi [Quarterly Journal of Educational Innovations (Iran)], 6(21), 208-235.

Gough, Noel. (2007). Rhizosemiotic play and the generativity of fiction. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education,4(1), 119-124.

Gough, Noel. (2007). Changing planes: rhizosemiotic play in transnational curriculum inquiry. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 26(3), 279-294. 

Gough, Noel. (2006). Lost children: anxieties in Australian education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 3(2), 63-67.

Gough, Noel. (2006). Shaking the tree, making a rhizome: towards a nomadic philosophy of science education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 38(5), 625-645.

Gough, Noel. (2006). Quality imperialism in higher education: a global empire of the mind? ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 25 (2), 1-15.

Gough, Noel (2005) Imagining societies and environments: speculative fictions in/for social education. The Social Educator 23 (3): 15-24.

Gough, Noel and Price, Leigh (2004) Rewording the world: poststructuralism, deconstruction and the 'real' in environmental education. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education . 21: 23-36.

Gough, Annette and Gough, Noel (2004) Environmental education research in southern Africa : dilemmas of interpretation. Environmental Education Research 10 (3): 409-424.

Gough, Noel (2004) RhizomANTically becoming-cyborg: performing posthuman pedagogies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 36 (3): 253-265.

Gough, Noel, Gough, Annette, Appelbaum, Peter, Appelbaum, Sophia, Doll, Mary Aswell and Sellers, Warren (2003) Tales from Camp Wilde : queer(y)ing environmental education research. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education , 8: 44-66.

Gough, Noel (2003) Speculative fictions for understanding global change environments: two thought experiments. Managing Global Transitions: International Research Journal , 1 (1): 5-27.

Gough, Noel (2002) Thinking/acting locally/globally: Western science and environmental education in a global knowledge economy. International Journal of Science Education 24 (11): 1217-1237.

Gough, Noel (2002) Ignorance in environmental education research. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 18: 19-26.

Gough, Noel (2002) Rethinking globalisation. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 18: 87-89.

Gough, Noel (2002) Fictions for representing and generating semiotic consciousness: the crime story and educational inquiry. International Journal of Applied Semiotics 3 (2): 59-76.

Gough, Noel (2002) Futures for Australian curriculum studies: metaphors, genres and complicated conversations. Curriculum Perspectives 22 (1): 55-61.

Gough, Noel (2001) Learning from Disgrace : a troubling narrative for South African curriculum work. Perspectives in Education 19 (1): 107-126.

Gough, Noel (2000) Interrogating silence: environmental education research as postcolonialist textwork. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 15/16: 113-120.

Gough, Noel (2000) Locating curriculum studies in the global village. Journal of Curriculum Studies 32 (2): 329-342.

Gough, Noel (1999) Troubling 'freedom': silences in post-apartheid environmental education. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 19: 40-49.

Gough, Noel (1999) Surpassing our own histories: autobiographical methods for environmental education research. Environmental Education Research 5 (4): 407-418.

Gough, Noel (1999) Globalisation and school curriculum change: locating a transnational imaginary. Journal of Education Policy 14 (1): 73-84.

Gough, Noel (1999) Rethinking the subject: (de)constructing human agency in environmental education research. Environmental Education Research , 5 (1): 35-48.

Gough, Noel (1998) Decolonising sustainability: subverting and appropriating mythologies of social change. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 18 : 3-13.

Gough, Noel (1998) All around the world: science education, constructivism, and globalization. Educational Policy 12 (5): 507-524.

Gough, Noel (1997) Globalisation and environmental education: a view from the south. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 17: 40-46.

Gough, Noel (1997) Weather Incorporated: environmental education, postmodern identities, and technocultural constructions of nature. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 2: 145-162.

Gough, Noel (1996) Virtual geography, electronic media culture, and the global environment: post-modernist possibilities for environmental education research. Environmental Education Research 2 (3) 457-467.

Gough, Noel (1996) Textual authority in Bram Stoker's Dracula; or, what's really at stake in action research? Educational Action Research 4 (2): 257-265.

Gough, Noel (1994) Narration, reflection, diffraction: aspects of fiction in educational inquiry. Australian Educational Researcher 21 (3): 47-76

Gough, Noel (1994) Playing at catastrophe: ecopolitical education after poststructuralism. Educational Theory 44 (2): 189-210

Gough, Noel (1993) Narrative inquiry and critical pragmatism: liberating research in environmental education. In Mrazek, Rick (ed.) Alternative Paradigms in Environmental Education Research ( Troy , Ohio : North American Association for Environmental Education): 175-97.

Gough, Noel (1993) Neuromancing the stones: experience, intertextuality, and cyberpunk science fiction. Journal of Experiential Education 16 (3): 9-17

Gough, Noel (1993) Environmental education, narrative complexity and postmodern science/fiction. International Journal of Science Education 15 (5): 607-25

Gough, Noel (1991) Chief Seattle's gospel: chiefly Protestant propaganda? Green Teacher 24: 4-6

Gough, Noel (1991) Narrative and nature: unsustainable fictions in environmental education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 7: 31-42

Gough, Noel (1990) Healing the earth within us: environmental education as cultural criticism. Journal of Experiential Education ?13 (3): 12-17

Books

Atweh, Bill, Borba, Marcelo, Calabrese Barton, Angela, Gough, Noel, Keitel, Christine, Vistro-Yu, Catherine, & Vithal, Renuka (Eds.). (2007). Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education . Dordrecht: Springer.

Doll, Jr. William E. and Gough, Noel (eds) (2002) Curriculum Visions ( New York : Peter Lang). Also translated and published by China Educational Science Publishing House, Beijing , 2004, and Higher Education Publishing, Taipei , 2006.

Gough, Noel (1993) Laboratories in Fiction: Science Education and Popular Media ( Geelong : Deakin University )

Gough, Noel (1992) Blueprints for Greening Schools: Principles, Policies and Practices for Environmental Education in Australian Secondary Schools ( Melbourne : Gould League of Victoria )

Book chapters

Gough, Noel. (in press). Becoming transnational: rhizosemiosis, complicated conversation, and curriculum inquiry. In Marcia McKenzie, Heesoon Bai, Paul Hart & Bob Jickling (Eds.), Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press.

Gough, Noel. (in press). How do places become pedagogical? In Margaret Somerville (Ed.), Place Studies in Australia: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Landscapes and Learning. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing.

Gough, Noel. (2007). Internationalisation, globalisation, and quality audits: an empire of the mind? In Bridget Somekh  & Thomas A. Schwandt (Eds.), Knowledge Production: Research Work in Interesting Times. London: Routledge, 92-108.

Gough, Noel. (2007). All around the world: science education, constructivism, and globalisation. In Bill Atweh, Marcelo Borba, Angela Calabrese Barton, Noel Gough, Christine Keitel, Catherine Vistro-Yu & Renuka Vithal (Eds.), Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education (pp. 39-55). Dordrecht: Springer.

Gough, Noel. (2007). Geophilosophy, rhizomes and mosquitoes: becoming nomadic in global science education research. In Bill Atweh, Marcelo Borba, Angela Calabrese Barton, Noel Gough, Christine Keitel, Catherine Vistro-Yu & Renuka Vithal (Eds.), Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education (pp. 57-77). Dordrecht: Springer.

Gough, Noel. (2005). School based curriculum development: w[h]ither curriculum theory? In Colin Marsh (Ed.), Curriculum Controversies: Point and Counterpoint 1980-2005 (pp. 279-286). Canberra : Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Cheek, Julianne and Gough, Noel (2005) Postmodernist perspectives. In Somekh, Bridget and Lewin, Cathy (eds), Research Methods in the Social Sciences ( London : Sage Publications), 302-309.

Gough, Noel (2004) Imagining democracy: speculative fictions in/for social education. In Waghid, Yusef and Le Grange, Lesley (eds) Imaginaries on Democratic Education and Change ( Pretoria : South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education), 17-30.

Gough, Noel (2004) Read intertextually, write an essay, make a rhizome: performing narrative experiments in educational inquiry. In Piper, Heather and Stronach, Ian (eds) Educational Research: Difference and Diversity ( Aldershot : Ashgate), 155-176.

Gough, Noel (2004) Narrative experiments: manifesting cyborgs in curriculum inquiry. In Weaver, John A., Anijar, Karen and Daspit, Toby (eds) Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s): Curricular Visions for the Third Millennium ( New York : Garland ), 89-108.

Gough, Noel (2004) Living in a material world. In Scott, William A. H. and Gough, Stephen R. (eds) Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: A Critical Review ( London : RoutledgeFalmer), 236-240.

Gough, Noel (2003) Thinking globally in environmental education: implications for internationalizing curriculum inquiry. In Pinar, William F. (ed.) International Handbook of Curriculum Research ( Mahwah NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), 53-72.

Gough, Noel (2001) Teaching in the (Crash) zone: manifesting cultural studies in science education. In Weaver, John A., Morris, Marla and Appelbaum, Peter (eds) (Post) Modern Science (Education): Propositions and Alternative Paths ( New York : Peter Lang), 249-273.

Gough, Noel (2000) Globalization and curriculum inquiry: locating, representing, and performing a transnational imaginary. In Stromquist, Nelly and Monkman, Karen (eds) Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.), 77-98.

Gough, Noel (1999) Understanding curriculum systems. In Henderson, James G. and Kesson, Kathleen R. (eds) Understanding Democratic Curriculum Leadership ( New York : Teachers College Press), 47-69.

Gough, Noel (1998) Playing with wor(l)ds: science fiction as environmental literature. In Murphy, Patrick D. (ed.) The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook ( Chicago and London : Fitzroy Dearborn), 409-414.

Gough, Noel (1998) 'If this were played upon a stage...': school laboratory work as a theatre of representation. In Wellington , Jerry (ed.) Practical Work in School Science: Which Way Now? ( London : Routledge), 69-89.

Gough, Noel (1998) Reflections and diffractions: functions of fiction in curriculum inquiry. In Pinar, William F. (ed.) Curriculum: Toward New Identities ( New York : Garland ): 94-127.

Review Essays

Gough, Noel. (2006). Sustainable development in learning, leadership and the law: a review essay. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 22 (1), 115-121.

Gough, Noel (2004) Landscapes/voices in/of transition/transformation. Essay review of A Change of Tongue (Antjie Krog) and Voices of the Transition: The Politics, Poetics and Practices of Social Change in South Africa (Edgar Pieterse and Frank Meintjies, Eds.) Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 21: 174-186.

Appelbaum, Peter and Gough, Noel (2002) Enterprise education. Essay review of Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum (Karen Anijar) and Star Trek: The Human Frontier (Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett). Australian Educational Researcher 29 (2): 131-144

Keynote addresses

Gough, Noel (2008) No Country For Young People? Anxieties in Australian education. Presidents address to the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, Queensland, 30 November-4 December.
(Power Point presentation with notes.)

Gough, Noel (2008) Narrative experiments and imaginative inquiry. Invited keynote address to Imaginative Practice, Imaginative Inquiry, the 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education, Canberra, Australia, 29-31 January. (Paper)

Gough, Noel (2008) Narrative experiments and imaginative inquiry. Invited keynote address to Imaginative Practice, Imaginative Inquiry, the 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education, Canberra, Australia, 29-31 January. (Power Point Presentation)

Gough, Noel (2007) Australian outdoor education in a changing climate: challenges and opportunities. Invited keynote address to Sustaining our Spirit of Place, the 15th National Outdoor Education Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 20- 23 September. (Paper)

Gough, Noel (2007) Australian outdoor education in a changing climate: challenges and opportunities. Invited keynote address to Sustaining our Spirit of Place, the 15th National Outdoor Education Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 20- 23 September. (Power Point Presentation)

Gough, Noel (2006) Shaking science education's tree: Newton and Dali make a rhizome (with a little help from Deleuze, Guattari, and me). Invited address to the Special Interest Group: Chaos and Complexity Theories, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco , 7-11 April.

Gough, Noel (2005) Curriculum studies in a global knowledge economy: current trends and alternative futures. Invited keynote address to the Fifth Annual Conference of the Iranian Curriculum Development Association, Tehran , 5 March

Gough, Noel (2004) Environmental education research: producing 'truth' or reducing ignorance? Invited keynote address to Effective Sustainability Education: What Works? Why? Where Next? Linking Research and Practice , University of New South Wales , 18-20 February

Gough, Noel (2003) Transnational curriculum inquiry: towards new constituencies and solidarities in curriculum work. Invited keynote address to the First World Curriculum Studies Conference , Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University , Shanghai , China , 26-29 October

Gough, Noel (2003) Curriculum inquiry and the new internationalism. Invited keynote presentation to ConversActions , the Biennial Conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Adelaide , 27-29 September

Gough, Noel (2003) Environmental education research: a postcolonialist reading. Invited keynote address to Environmental Education Research in Southern Africa . Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa , 22-23 September

Gough, Noel (2003) Environmental education and sustainable development: a poststructuralist reading. Invited symposium presentation to the Sixth UNESCO/Japan Seminar on Environmental Education in the Asian-Pacific Region , Tokyo , 18-20 March

Gough, Noel. (2002). Blank spots, blind spots, and methodological questions in postgraduate research.  Invited keynote address to the Postgraduate Research Conference, Deakin University, 4-6 October.

Gough, Noel (2001) Futures in curriculum theorising. Invited keynote presentation to Education Futures and New Citizenships , the Biennial Conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Canberra , 29 September-1 October

Gough, Noel (1999) Sustaining millennial hopes: environmental education and young Australians. Invited keynote address to the International Symposium on Youth Education , National Olympic Memorial Youth Center, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Tokyo , Japan , 19 February

Gough, Noel (1997) Environmental education research as a poststructuralist textual practice. Invited keynote address to the Fourth International Invitational Seminar on Environmental Education Research , Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand, 8-11 December

Gough, Noel (1990) Challenges of change: myths of the near future in Australian education. Invited keynote address to the 20th Annual Conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association , Adelaide , South Australia , 8-11 July

Gough, Noel (1990) Imagining our relationships with nature. Invited keynote address to the combined Annual Conferences of the Victorian Association for Environmental Education and the Victorian Outdoor Education Association, Bendigo College of Advanced Education, Bendigo , Victoria , 25 - 27 May