Grants
2019-2020 Successful Grants
2020 ARC Linkage Curating Museum Collections for Climate Change Mitigation, Dr Fiona Cameron (WSU), Prof David Ellsworth (WSU) Prof Karen Malone (Swinburne), Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer (MAAS), Adj A/Prof Mark Hughes (MAAS), Prof Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, Netherlands). Funded by Australian Research Council.
2020 Citizens with Rats: From citizen science toward non-anthropocentric education with young people and difficult urban companions (CitiRats©). Funded by Academy of Finland.
2019 Mapping Scientific Concepts through Nature Play in Early Childhood Education: Achieving Excellence in STEM through Evidence-Based Pedagogies, Funded by HORIZON QLD Government.
2019- 2024 Grant Submissions
ARC 2023 Linkage (LP220200635) Climate-forest-mitigation futures: Museums and diverse knowledge systems, Industry Partners: NSW Royal Botanic Gardens, Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Auckland Museum (Lead WSU)
ARC 2023 Discovery Citizenkin: Children, Animals and Education, Lead CI Karen Malone (Swinburne), CI Tracy Young (Swinburne), CI Linda Knight (RMIT), and PI Pauliina Rautio (Oulu)
ARC Discovery Postcarbon Childhoods: researching climate, children, and plants, Prof.Karen Malone, A/Prof Linda Knight (RMIT) and A/Prof Iris Duhn (Monash), A/Prof Dawn Sanders (Gothenburg Uni Sweden).
ARC Discovery Animalising Childhoods: Imagining spaces of ecological justice, Karen Malone and Tracy Young
2016-2020 Publications
Special Invitations
Journal: Education and Philosophy and Theory [Q1] Invited Special Issue Editors
Karen Malone & Tracy Young (2023) Retheorising environmental sustainability education for the Anthropocene, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55:11, 1200-1204, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2152327
Invitation Karen Malone Series Editorial Board: Routledge Series Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research launched 2020.
Whats New in Publications?
New Book Chapter
Books
Malone, K, Blekinsop, S. Jickling, B, and Morse, M. (2024) Wilding Ecologies: Walking-with Glacier, Palgrave.
Murris, K. Bozalek, V, Franklin-Phipps, A, Fullagar, S., Taylor, C., Kuby, C., Malone, K. Fikile Nxumalo,F. and Zhao, W. (2022) Postqualitative Glossary: Doing Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, Tesar, M, and Arndt, S. (2020) Theorising Posthumanist Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore.
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (2019) (eds) Urban Nature and Childhoods, London, Routledge.
Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (2019) (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Young, T. C. (2019). Connections and disjunctions: Hum(an)imal becomings in early childhood. (PhD). Monash University, Melbourne.
Malone, Karen (2018) Children in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities, London:Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (Childhood and Development Series)
Malone, Karen, Truong, Son and Gray, Tonia (eds) (2017) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, London: Springer.
Book Chapters
Malone, K. (2023). Childhoodnature: Applying a sympoietic approach to child-outdoor-nature encounters, in Jan Činčera, Bruce Johnson, Daphne Goldman, Iris Alkaher, Michal Medek (Eds) Outdoor Environmental Education in the Contemporary World, Springer.
Malone, K. (2023). Indigenous Children’s Speculative Future Imaginaries of Place, Weathering and Ruination, in Bishop, K., and Dimoulias, K., (Eds) The Routledge Handbook of the Built Environments of Diverse Childhoods, Routledge.
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Knight, L. (2022) Relational Mappings and Global Childhoods, in Yelland, N., Peters, L., Fairchild, N., Tesar, M., and Perez, M. (eds) Global Childhoods Handbook, Sage Publishers.
Malone, K, Diaz-Diaz, C, and Semenec, P,. (2020) Interview with Karen Malone, Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies, Singapore, Springer.
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (2019), Introduction: Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education, In Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (eds) Urban Nature and Childhoods, London, Routledge
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Logan, M., Khatun, F. & Malone, K. (2019). A Conceptual Cartography of Environmental Education. In E. Lees, J. E. Vinuales. Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Malone, K., Whitehouse, H., & Krasney, M. (2019). Childhoodnature and the Anthropocene:An Epoch of ‘Cenes’. In A Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (Ed). International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature – Assemblages of Childhood and Nature. The Netherlands: Springer.
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (2019). Childhoodnature an assemblage adventure, In A Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (Ed). International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature – Assemblages of Childhood and Nature. The Netherlands: Springer.
Malone, K. (2019) Uneasy assemblages of childearthbodies, in Janice Kroeger and Meyers, C. (eds) Children, Elders, Earth, Routledge.
Malone, K (2019) Re-turning Childhoodnature: A Diffractive Account of the Past Tracings of Childhoodnature as a Series of Theoretical Turns, in Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Young, T., & Bone, J. (2019). Troubling intersections of childhood/animals/education: Narratives of love, life, and death. In A. Cutter Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Hacking Barratt (Eds.), The International Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. London: Springer International Publishing.
Young, T., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2019). Posthumanist learning: Nature as event. In A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. Lasczik, J. Wilks, M. Logan, A. Turner, & W. Boyd (Eds.), Touchstones for deterritorializing socioecological learning: The Anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Young, T., & Rautio, P. (2019). Childhoodnature animal relations: Section overview. In A. Cutter Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Hacking Barratt (Eds.), The International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research. London: Springer International Publishing.
Malone, K, Dunn, I and Tesar, M. (2018) Greedy Bags of Childhoodnature Theories, in Cutter-Mackenzie, A, Malone, K, Barratt, E (eds) In Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Malone, K. (2018) Co-mingling kin: exploring histories of uneasy human-animal relations as sites for ecological posthumanist pedagogies, in Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Valerie Banschbach (eds) Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy, Palgrave Publishers.
Malone, K. (2017), Grappling with data, in Koro-Ljungberg, M, Loytonen, T., and Tesar, M (eds) Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the post-critical and post-anthropocentric, Peter Lang, USA.
Malone, K. (2017) Ecological Posthumanist theorising: Grappling with Child-Dog-Bodies, in Malone, K., Truong, S,. and Gray, T (eds) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, Springer: UK.
Malone, K. and Truong, S. (2017) Sustainability, Education and Anthropocentric Precarity, in Malone, K., Truong, S,. and Gray, T (eds) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, Springer: UK.
Rudd, A., Malone, K and Barlett, M. (2017), Participatory Urban Planning, Kudryavtsev, A. and Krasny, M (eds) Urban Environmental Education Review, Cornell University Press.
Malone, Karen. (2017) Planning for a sustainable future through the Child Friendly Cities, Bishop, K, (Editor) Designing for Kids in the City: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks, Routledge.
Malone, Karen (2016) Place, Peters, Michael (ed) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer.
Malone, Karen (2016) Children and Sustainability, Peters, Michael (ed) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer.
Malone, Karen (2016) Children’s Place Encounters: Place-Based Participatory Research to Design a Child- Friendly and Sustainable Urban Development. Skelton, T (Editor in Chief) Volume 8, Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer London.
Malone, Karen (2016) Child Friendly and Sustainable Cities: exploring children’s mobility, risk and agency at the global and local level, Skelton, T (Editor in Chief) Volume 12, Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer London.
Malone, K. (2016) “Dapto Dreaming” a place-based research and environmental education project supporting children to be active agents of environmental change, in Winograd, K. (ed) Education in Times of Environmental Crises: Teaching Children to be Agents of Change, Routledge.
Malone, K (2016) Posthumanist approaches to theorizing children’s human-nature relations, K. Nairn et al. (eds.), Space, Place and Environment, Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 3, DOI 10.1007/978-981-4585-90-3_14-1
Journal Articles
Malone, K. and Young, T. (2023) Making Kin: Exploring New Pedagogical Openings in Sustainability Education in Higher Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11), 1205-1219, Special Issue “Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education in Anthropocene” DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2023.2225768 [Q1]
Malone. K. and Tran, C. (2023) Diffracting Child-Virus Multispecies Bodies: a Rethinking of Sustainability Education with East – West Philosophies, Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11), 1296-1310, Special Issue “Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education in Anthropocene” DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2142554 [Q1]
Young, T. and Malone, K. (2023). Reconfiguring environmental sustainability education by exploring past/present/future pedagogical openings with pre-service teachers, Teaching in Higher Education, 28 (5), 1077-1094. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2197112 [Q1]
Malone, K, and Crinall, S. (2023) Children as Worlding but not Only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing, Children’s Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2023.2219624 [Q1]
Malone, K. Young, T and Tran, C. (2023). Posthumanism and Environmental Education, Oxford Education Bibliographies, Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756810/obo-9780199756810-0308.xml
Malone, K. and Young, T. (2023) Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education for the Anthropocene Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11),1200-1204. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2152327 [Q1]
Young, T, Crinall, S and Malone, K. (2022), Disruptions of post-qualitative research: Tensions and Openings, Qualitative Inquiry, 28 (3-4), 312-321, DOI: 10.1177/10778004211038255 [Q1]
Malone, K., (2020). Mapping making philosophy in education; Lines, knots and knotting. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36 (2), 97-104. [Q2]
Malone, K., Logan, M., Siegel, L., Regalado, J., & Wade-Leeuwen, B. (2020). Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory-making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1-17. doi:10.1017/aee.2020.23 [Q2]
Malone, K. (2019). Worlding with Kin: Diffracting Childfish Sensorial Ecological Encounters through Moving Image, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogies, 4, pp.69-80.
Malone, K. (2019). Walking-with children on blasted landscapes, Journal of Public Pedagogies, 4, pp. 155-164.
Cole, D., & Malone, K. (2019). Environmental education and philosophy in the Anthropocene. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35(3), 157-162. doi:10.1017/aee.2020.5 [Q2]
Malone, K and Moore, S.J., (2019). Sensing Ecologically through Kin and Stones, International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 7(1), p. 8-25.
Duhn, Iris, Malone, Karen and Tesar, Marek (2017), Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education, Environmental Education Researcher, 23, (10), p. 1357-1368. DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1390884 [Q1]
Malone, Karen. (2016) Reconsidering children’s encounters with nature and place using posthumanism, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32(1), 1-15.
Reports
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Osborne, M., Lasczik, L., Malone, K., and Knight, L. (2021). The Mud Book: Nature Play Framework, Queensland Government Department of Education. https://childhoodnatureplay.com/the-mudbook-nature-play-framework/
Malone, Karen., Moore, Sarah Jane., and Ward, Kumara., (2019) Children’s Bodies Sensing Ecologically: a study of pre-language children’s ecological encounters, Western Sydney University Research Report.
Media
The Conversation Published Articles
Schools have moved outdoors in past disease outbreaks. Here are 7 reasons to do it again. Author Professor Karen Malone Published 11/10/2021 https://theconversation.com/schools-have-moved-outdoors-in-past-disease-outbreaks-here-are-7-reasons-to-do-it-again-168481 Impact 10,798 reads; 1524 shares, 5 radio interviews
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs. Authors Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Professor Alexandra Lasczik, Professor Karen Malone, Professor, Linda Knight, Dr. Maia Osborn, Ms. Mahi, Published 23/9/2021 https://theconversation.com/children-learn-science-in-nature-play-long-before-they-get-to-school-classrooms-and-labs-166106 Impact 36,016 reads, 13,359 shares, 6 radio interviews
How to use a trip to the playground to help your children strengthen their memory. Author Professor Karen Malone Published 28/06/2021 https://theconversation.com/how-to-use-a-trip-to-the-playground-to-help-your-children-strengthen-their-memory-163424 10,603 reads, 654 shares, 4 radio interviews
ABC Interview (5/09/2020) Screen Time vs ‘Green Time’: New research suggests parents are right to nag kids about playing outside. Malone discussing the merits of international study looking at “screen time versus green time” and the impact on children’s mental health. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-09-05/screen-time-mental-health-kids-adolescents/12612454
Environmental Sustainability in the Anthropocene 