Author: Mehri Mirzaei Rafe

Associate Professor David R. Cole is one of the founders of the research field, ‘Deleuze and Education, ’ that he began in the 1990s at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom (UK). Since that time, he has published a number of influential research books in the field (17) and more than a hundred and fifty other important publications, as well as working collaboratively on international research projects. He has been researching in environmental education since 2017 and has initiated a research website to further those ends. He is a specialist in the field of ‘Education in the Anthropocene’ studies. He is currently employed as an associate professor in education and cultural analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Mehri Mirzaei Rafe attained her Ph.D. degree in philosophy of education from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2021. She is also a Ph.D. candidate and pursuing her second Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, concentrating in research, measurement, and statistic (RMS), at the University of North Texas (UNT), United States (US). Her research areas include critical realism, critical thinking, diversity and justice in education, and positive youth development. In addition, she has published several peer-reviewed papers in the field and has presented at major international conferences. She has also conducted qualitative, quantitative research on critical realism and critical thinking, Muslim women sexual rights in the US, and positive youth development. Dr. Gui Ying Annie Yang-Heim is an assistant professor at Illinois State University in the United States of America (USA). She has taught literacy instructions, classroom organization, reading assessment and intervention, and social justice for early childhood and elementary education at a tertiary level. She attained her Ph.D. degree, specializing in Curriculum and Professional Studies, from the University of South Australia, Australia, in 2021. As a school teacher for over a decade, Dr. Yang-Heim has taught various subjects, primarily literacy and numeracy, from Kindergarten to High School in China, Australia, and the USA. She has presented research papers at international conferences, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference, and has research articles published in journals, and a book published with Springer. Dr. Yang-Heim has acted as a regular proposal reviewer for journals and conferences.