Rate My Professor Carol Carter

Associate Professor Carol Carter serves as a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Curtin University, part of the Faculty of Humanities, where she coordinates the Master of Teaching programs in primary and early childhood education. With more than thirty years of experience in drama education and performance training, her career includes roles as a lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University starting in 2004, and as Head of Drama within the Western Australian Department of Education for twenty years. Prior to these positions, she worked as a primary school teacher, Educational Director of Young People’s Theatre in South Africa, and teacher educator in primary and early childhood degree programs at universities in Australia and South Africa.

Carter earned her PhD from the University of Melbourne, investigating the role of oral art forms in supporting drama pedagogy and intercultural understanding in teacher education. She also holds an MEd from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, which examined personal and contextual constraints on classroom drama usage, alongside a BEd (Hons), HDE in Speech and Drama, and B.Prim.Ed. Her research focuses on drama and creative arts pedagogies in teacher education, emphasizing equity and social justice. She investigates how drama fosters dialogical spaces, supports cultural identities across early childhood, primary, enabling, and teacher education contexts, and employs drama strategies to enhance learning in diverse environments. Notable publications include co-authoring The Child in Focus: Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood Education (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Innovative Methods for Applied Drama and Theatre Practice in African Contexts: Drama for Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). Other significant works are 'Does an educative approach work? A reflective case study...' (International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022), 'Impact of CALL professional development...' (Teaching English with Technology, 2022), and 'Dialogues of diversity...' (NJ, 2016). She has delivered numerous papers, books, and workshops nationally and internationally and holds the position of Regional Director for Australia/New Zealand on the board of the International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapies (IACAET).