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xx Author Biographies

communities of the Southwest USA. He also works in K-12 science teacher prepara-
tion on issues of diversity in geoscience. While teaching at the tribal college of the
Navajo Nation he collaborated with indigenous scholars on place-based curricula.
Ajay Sharma is an assistant professor in the Department of Elementary and
Social Studies Education at the University of Georgia, Athens. His scholarship
focuses on studying classroom discourse in K-12 science classrooms and science
teacher education programs from the perspectives of justice and equity. He is also
interested in exploring implications of climate change and neoliberalism for science
education and the democratic agenda of schooling.
Christina Siry is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Her
research focuses on the intertwined areas of science learning and learning to teach
science, particularly at the elementary and early childhood levels. At the foundation
of her work are the importance and the complexity of working toward incorporating
multiple voices and perspectives in teaching, research, and authorship.
David T. Sobel is the director of teacher certification programs in the education
department and director of the Center for Place-based Education at Antioch
University, New England. His published books include Place-based Education:
Connecting Classrooms and Communities and Childhood and Nature: Design
Principles for Educators. His writing examines the relationship between child
development, authentic curriculum, and environmental education.
Arthur J. Stewart is a science education project manager for Oak Ridge
Associated Universities. His experience includes research in limnology, stream
ecology, and ecotoxicology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. His sci-
ence education focus is on “bridging the divide” between science and literature. He
has authored several books of science-oriented poetry, and his poems and essays
have been published in literary magazines.
Christopher Darius Stonebanks is an associate professor of education and is cur-
rently the chair of the research ethics board at Bishop’s University, Canada. He
teaches ethics and religious culture, social sciences, and curriculum development in
the teacher education program and is also developing an experiential learning pro-
gram in the rural regions of Malawi. Through a critical pedagogy lens, his research
interests lie primarily in indigenous knowledge, counter-narratives and the manner
in which the media influences schools in Canada and the USA.
Suzanne L. Stewart is a member of the Yellowknife Dene First Nation. She
works as an assistant professor in the Department of Adult Education and
Counseling Psychology at OISE/University of Toronto, where her teaching and
research focuses on Indigenous healing in counseling and Indigenous pedagogy in
higher education.
Dawn Sutherland is currently the Canada research chair in Indigenous science
education and associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. Her research cov-
ers areas related to the influence of culture while learning science, self-efficacy of
First Nations youth in science-related career development and educators’ percep-
tions of culturally relevant science teaching. She has been actively working with
First Nations communities to develop science education programming that incorpo-
rates Indigenous knowledge.