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Dr. Sarah M. Crinall
Lecturer of science childhoods, place-based relational philosophies of education & art-based methodologies. Sarah has a degree in Science and a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Melbourne. Sarah's doctorate was awarded the 2018 AERA Outstanding Dissertation award with an honorary Adjunct Research Fellowship to follow with the Centre for Education Research, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Sarah is a Writer, Researcher and Unit Assessor for Science Education at Southern Cross University. Sarah's scholarly interests are in the power of the practical, the ethical and the 'everyday' and the informal learning ecologies that we live with as families and communities. Her focus is on the concept of sustenance in education, right now, during life in early years motherhood. Sarah is committed to playful inquiries that carry communities beyond patriarchal agendas, checking for ethics and care in and for ecological, climate and public health planning.
With water and art as muse, her monograph, Sustaining Childhood Natures: The Art of Becoming with Water was published in 2019, on the sustenance of everyday life. This research artfully and playfully engaged in queries of sustainability and global health. Sarah has published several peer-reviewed pieces in partnership with place-based everyday life, with a commitment to doing academia differently.