Annette Gough
Australian academic
Annette Elizabeth Gough OAM (born 1950) is an Australian science and environmental education scholar and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. She is a pioneer of the environmental education movement in Australia. Gough is known for her critical analysis of the history of the field and for introducing a gender dimension in environmental education research. Although best known for this work, Gough has also made important contributions to science education, research methodology and gender studies.
Early life and education
Gough was born in Melbourne, Victoria, where she completed a BSc in Education and a Master of Education at the University of Melbourne. Gough joined the Australian Government’s Curriculum Development Centre in 1974 to work on the dissemination of the Australian Science Education Project. She transitioned to working on the development of the new field of environmental education which she documented in her Master of Education thesis, Environmental Education in Australia: Phenomenon of the Seventies – A Case Study in National Curriculum Action.
At the Curriculum Development Centre Gough took on coordination of the national environmental education program (1976–1981), which was the origins of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE). In 1984 Gough was appointed as president of the AAEE. When the Curriculum Development Centre was disbanded in 1982 Gough took up the position of Director of Environmental Education in the Australian Department of Home Affairs and Environment (1983–1987). While with the Department, Gough led the Australian delegation to the UNESCO–UNEP International Congress on Environmental Education and Training.
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