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Robyn Ann Ewing

Robyn Ann Ewing AM (born 1955) is an Emerita Professor in Teacher Education and the Arts at the University of Sydney. She is a co-director of Creativity in Research, Engaging the Arts, Transforming Education, Health and Wellbeing (CREATE) Centre.

In the 2015 Australia Day Honours, she became a member of the Order of Australia, "For significant service to tertiary education through academic and administrative roles, to professional organisations, and to the arts''.

In her early career, she wrote under her married name of Robyn Cusworth, and under this name she earned her doctorate in 1995 from Sydney University with a thesis entitled ''The framing of educational knowledge through newstime in junior primary classrooms.''

Her work includes a focus on the role of arts-rich pedagogy on our lives and learning. She has focused on the contribution drama and quality literature can make to becoming deeply literate alongside nurturing our imaginations and creativity. Other research interests include professional learning and co-mentoring, innovative pre-service teacher education, the experiences of early career teachers and early literacy development . Her commitment to drama and literacy education has led to her working as an academic partner with many schools and arts organisations including the Sydney Theatre Company, the Australian Theatre for Young People, Barking Gecko theatre, and Big Sky Stories. Provided by Wikipedia