Janette has worked as a school teacher, an education officer at the Australian Museum and developed and managed the CSIRO Sydney Science Education Centre. She has taught children from Kindergarten to Year 12, as well as adults in both formal and informal settings. Janette has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney in both primary and secondary teacher education courses, and has designed a number of new subjects, including a specific subject at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, on Learning Beyond the Classroom. Janette’s research area is learning in informal settings, and her PhD thesis is titled School-Museum Integrated Learning Experiences for Students: A Learning Journey. Her current research and publications investigate the nature of, and ideal conditions for learning in a wide range of formal and informal settings for both adults and children, and in a range of discipline areas. She is interested in what people perceive as learning, and how learning can be recognised, encouraged and ‘measured’ in informal settings. Janette has conducted a number of consultancies with large and small museums and their local communities to develop public and education programs for and with museum workers and teachers. She has been an active member of both Education and Museum professional associations and presented and published at appropriate conferences and in books and journals.