Karen is a Noonuccal woman from Minjerripah (North Stradbroke Island – south east Queensland, Australia) and also has Bidjara ancestry (central Queensland, Australia). She is a qualified early childhood educator who has taught for more than 20 years in Aboriginal Community education services from early childhood, compulsory schooling to adult training in remote, regional and urban areas of Queensland. She has lectured in Indigenous Australian Studies and in Indigenous education. Karen’s areas of interest are, of course, Aboriginal education and specifically early childhood education; research and re-claiming and re-presenting Aboriginal worldview and knowledges. Her doctoral thesis titled, ‘Please knock before you enter: Aboriginal regulation of Outsiders and the implications for research’ is the basis upon which Karen conceptualises and theories these areas of interest. She also applies this into her research roles as Deputy Chair of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children and academic advisor to the Indigenous Clearinghouse Board. Karen is currently employed as Associate Professor, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University (Gold Coast campus) teaching future early childhood educators.
Eve Gregory is Professor of Language and Culture in Education and Head of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is author or editor of a number of books on children’s home and community learning in multilingual settings and ethnographic approaches to research: Making Sense of a New World (1996); One Child, Many Worlds (1997); City Literacies (with Williams, 2000); Many Pathways to Literacy (with Long and Volk, 2004); On Writing Educational Ethnographies (with Conteh, Kearney and Mor, 2005) and Learning to read in a new language (2008). She has directed or co-directed ESRC, Leverhulme and Paul Hamlyn funded projects on children’s learning with parents, siblings and grandparents. Her current project is on ‘Becoming literate in faith settings: Language and literacy learning in the lives of new Londoners’ (with Jessel, Kenner, Lytra and Ruby) funded by the ESRC (2009-2013).
Terezinha Nunes is Professor of Education in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She started her career as a clinical psychologist in Brazil and later obtained a doctorate at City University of New York. Her work on “street mathematics” in Brazil uncovered many features of children’s and adults’ informal mathematical knowledge, and is considered a landmark in mathematics education research. With Peter Bryant, she has developed programmes for promoting young children’s mathematical reasoning, which are effective for hearing and deaf children.