Rate My Professor Ed Creely

Edwin (Ed) Creely is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, School of Education Culture & Society, at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He earned his PhD in 2017 and Master of Educational Studies in 1996, both from Monash University. Creely brings wide-ranging experience in education spanning primary, secondary, tertiary, and adult sectors. His research specializations include creativity and creative practices, phenomenological research, poetry as pedagogy and writing practices, teacher education, literacy across the years, inclusive education, critical pedagogy, theory and philosophy, digital pedagogy and learning platforms, educational technologies such as generative AI, lifelong learning, and active ageing. Core to his work are innovation, cross-disciplinary approaches, and creative practices in educational research and practice. He is also a devoted poet, with published collections including To Sculpt a New David, On the Day the World Died, O War!, Wake from Slumber, and Poet Warrior.

Creely has contributed to numerous projects, including the AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and Guide for adult EAL contexts, harnessing generative AI for the Skills for Education and Employment program, English as an Additional Language pedagogy for secondary classrooms, and ethnographic investigations of older adult poetry classes. His scholarly output comprises 54 articles, 14 book chapters, 13 conference papers, and 9 creative books. Notable publications are AI creativity in education: reframing the human-machine creative partnership (2025, with Mishra, P., Henriksen, D., and Henderson, M.), Artificial intelligence and the digital dis/empowerment of migrant and refugee learners (2025, with Henderson, M.), Kindness, creativity, productive failure, and agency (2024), Dancing with Buber: an autoethnographic study of inclusion and disability and its ethical foundations (2024, with Kewanian, A. and Southcott, J.), and Conceiving creativity and learning in a world of artificial intelligence: a thinking model (2023). He received the Best Paper Award in 2021 with Tour, K. and Waterhouse, P. Creely serves as editor for Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, peer reviewer for journals such as The Australian Educational Researcher and Thinking Skills and Creativity, and has appeared in media and podcasts discussing digital literacies and AI in education. His collaborations with scholars like Punya Mishra and Danah Henriksen underscore his influence in advancing AI, creativity, and digital empowerment in education.