Contributors

Editorial team

The editorial contributors include Dr Naomi Nirupa David, Kat Cain, Professor Andrea Nolan, Associate Professor Natalie Robertson, Sarah Fennelly, and Christian Bass.


Authors

The author contributors include Professor Andrea Nolan, Dr Naomi Nirupa David, Associate Professor Natalie Robertson, Kat Cain, Professor Louise Paatsch, Associate Professor Liz Rouse, Dr Virginia Kinnear, Associate Professor Anne-Marie Morrissey, and Dr Deb Moore.


Production team

The production contributors include Dr Naomi Nirupa David, Kat Cain, Sarah Fennelly, Emeka Anele, Christian Bass, Jeshmine Bajracharya, Lisa Hanlon, and Stephen Newnham. This interactive book has been designed to harness digital learning affordances; a goal supported by learning design, digital design, transcription, accessibility audits, videography, graphic design, desktop publishing, sound engineering, and platform developer skill sets.


School community contributors

This resource grew from learning materials originally created by Deakin for a Victorian Department of Education initiative. Participating school communities were an important part of that work, with school leaders, teachers and students sharing their classrooms, practice and experiences through videos, conversations, examples of practice and other learning materials.

We acknowledge and thank the schools and educators whose contributions bring authentic classroom practice and perspectives into this resource.

Participating schools

St James Parish Primary School
Wales Street Primary School
Mount Dandenong Primary School

Teachers and school leaders

Peter Fahay- Principal
Elise Fraser – Foundation Teacher
Jenny Deeble – Principal
Marie Apostolou
Toby Marquette
Maria Mandilas
Luisa Kalejuk
Sally Alderton – Principal
Kelly Watson

Participating Academics

Emeritus Professor Karen Stagnitti

License

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Play-based teaching approaches Copyright © 2026 by Deakin University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.