Debra completed her Masters of Education (via Thesis) on the ‘case for futures education in Australian schools.’ She then completed her PhD looking at the interconnections between futures thinking, curriculum and human capacity. Deb has published several articles in the Futures journal, and has received local and national awards for her contributions to student learning.

She is currently exploring her passion in Learning and Teaching, Educational Strategy and innovative curriculum and pedagogical design to lead some complex and longstanding projects to interesting and very successful futures. Deb is Professor and Dean (Education) at Flinders University in Australia.

Interviewed by: Rebecca Mijat

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Contacts

LinkedIn: Debra Bateman, Professor and Dean (Education) at Flinders University in Australia

Further Reading

Research articles (via Research Gate)
- Ethical dilemmas: Teaching futures in schools, Futures, Volume 71, Pages 122-131, August 2015
- Curriculum Rhetoric: Implicit and Explicit Futures in Australian Curriculum Documents, Teaching and Learning, Volume 6, Number 1, January 2013, Pages 5-17 (13)
- Transforming teachers’ temporalities: Futures in an Australian classroom, Futures, Volume 44, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 14-23