Bernard Riordon, O.C., �tait directeur g�n�ral de la Galerie d'art Beaverbrook de 2002 jusqu'au d�but de 2013 et en est maintenant le directeur �m�rite. Il a amorc� sa carri#&232;re au mus�e d'art de l'Universit� Saint Mary's de Halifax (Nouvelle-�cosse) puis, en 1973, il est nomm� conservateur de la Centennial Art Gallery du Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, situ�e dans un lieu inusit� : une poudri�re de la citadelle de Halifax. En 1975, il devient le premier directeur de l'Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Il occupe ce poste durant 30 ans, au cours desquels il �tablit le mus�e satellite � Yarmouth (Nouvelle-�cosse). Bernard Riordon est… l'auteur de Nova Scotia Folk Art : Canada's Cultural Heritage et de Joe Norris : Painted Visions of Nova Scotia.
Joe Norris is professor of Drama in Education and Applied Theatre in the Department of Dramatic Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts at Brock University. He advocates the arts as ways of knowing, doing and being. His book, Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-based Approach purports that playbuilding is a legitimate research methodology and received The American Educational Research Association’s Qualitative Research SIG’s Outstanding Book Award in 2011. His work with duoethnography furthers his interest in designing dialogic qualitative research methodologies that assist in the reconceptualization of the world and of self. Richard… Sawyer is an Associate Professor of Education at Washington State University Vancouver. He chairs both the EdD Program in Teacher Leadership for Washington State University and the MIT Secondary Certification Program at Washington State University Vancouver. The focus of his research is on the pedagogy of change and praxis, specifically within the contexts of duoethnography, international democratic education, teacher decision-making, and curriculum theory. In terms of international education, he has recently conducted research in Oaxaca, Mexico and Palestine. The applied context of curriculum theory is a key focus of his work. He is currently completing an additional book with Joe Norris: Understanding Qualitative Research: Duoethnography (Oxford University Press). Darren E. Lund is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, where his research examines social justice activism in schools and communities. Darren earned his PhD at UBC, and his duoethnographic work is an extension of his ongoing inquiry into topics around identity, sexual orientation, youth activism, and social justice pedagogy. Darren is a former high school teacher, and is currently “Welcoming Communities” Domain Leader with the Prairie Metropolis Centre. He enjoys working collaboratively and has two co-edited books (with Paul Carr):The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education (2007, Sense Publishers) and Doing Democracy: Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice (2008, Peter Lang Press).