Kumara Ward

Sydney

Dr. Kumara Ward is an Early Childhood academic in the School of Education with the University of Western Sydney and lecture in in Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her research interests include “The Natural Curriculum”: nature education and its role in identity, wellbeing and sustainability, place-based education and development of the naturalist intelligence, metacognition and art-based pedagogies. Her work draws on theories of ecopsychology, post-human frameworks, relational materialism, common worlds, multiple intelligences, theories of place and funds of knowledge. She is a specialist in creative education and in teaching pre-service educators to bring their curriculum content to life using the arts, the community and the natural environment.