Rate My Professor Jeanne Marie Iorio

Jeanne Marie Iorio is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching with a specialization in Early Childhood Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2007 and an Ed.M. from Harvard University in 2000. Prior to her current position, she served as a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University in Melbourne and as an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Hawai'i–West O‘ahu. Her research, teaching, and writing center on disrupting and rethinking conventional educational practices in early childhood settings, utilizing post-qualitative inquiry methodologies. Key areas of focus include place pedagogies, learning with place, relational ontologies, and pedagogies that foster connections with the more-than-human world. Iorio is actively involved in projects such as Learning with Place and Walking with Lilly, which emphasize immersive nature-based experiences, First Nations worldviews, and climate action through citizen science and sustainability initiatives. She also holds the role of Associate Director of the Global Childhoods Research Hub at the University of Melbourne.