Biographical Sketch

Marcus Bussey is an educator and consultant with more than 20 years experience. He has taught widely throughout Australia having spent 5 years at a yoga based neohumanist school run by Ananda Marga, 4 years in an urban community school run by a parent cooperative, 7 years in Montessori primary and high schools, and 3 years at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he teaches and is soon to complete his PhD on the Futures of Critical Pedagogy. He has presented papers on education, social change and community engagement in Taiwan, Serbia, Israel, India and the US. In 2003 he completed a pilot study for the Queensland Department of Families as part of their project Queensland 2020: a State for All Ages. This included a stimulus paper and 20 minute video, both entitled: Youth Voices: Young Queenslander's Values in a Time of Structural Ageing.

He is also an accomplished musician with 4 CD's to his credit and he uses the Suzuki method to teach classical guitar. Marcus has authored over 30 articles, book chapters and an encyclopaedia entry, co-edited Neohumanist Educational Futures: Liberating the Pedagogical Intellect (Tamkang University Press: 2006), co-authored Futures Thinking for Social Foresight with Richard Slaughter (2005) and is currently co-editing Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for Emergent Worlds (Sense Publishers) which is due out mid-2007. He is an associate of the Prout Institute of Australia (www.pia.org.au) and curriculum coordinator for Prout College (www.proutcollege.org).