Heather Sharp is Associate Professor of History curriculum at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her current research investigates the teaching of difficult and controversial pasts, the influence of public history in teaching, and historical representations in school curriculum, particularly textbooks, and also examines the written and visual texts in picture books that deal with conflict.
Debra Donnelly is an Associate Professor of History curriculum at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Debra’s research interests centre on the role of the visual and media in the development of historical and global consciousness. Her research explores, and seeks to clarify, the relationship between public pedagogies, conceptual frameworks of historical understanding and problematic knowledge, and multi-modality in historical representation.