Brendan Hyde, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Australia. He has research interests in out-of-field teaching in religious education, children's spirituality, and in phenomenology as a method for reflecting on the lived experiences of teachers and students. Dr Hyde is also the current Chair of the International Association for Children's Spirituality, and a Fellow of the Centre for the Theology of Childhood, currently located in Denver, Colorado.