Michalinos Zembylas is Associate Professor of Education at Intercollege, Cyprus, and adjunct professor of teacher education at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. His research interests are in the areas of curriculum theory, philosophy of education, and science/technology education, and his work focuses on exploring the role of emotion and affect in teaching and learning. He is the author of the book Teaching With Emotion: A Postmodern Enactment (Information Age Publishing, 2005).
Mariona Espinet is professor of Science education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. After teaching middle and secondary general science, chemistry and physics she earned a master’s degree in Inorganic Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1980) and a PhD in Science Education at the University of Georgia, Athens (1990) thanks to a Fulbright-La Caixa scholarship. At present she teaches science education courses at the university for pre-school, primary and secondary pre-service and also in-service teachers. Her research and innovation interests focus on science teacher education for sustainability and also classroom discourse in science education. She serves as co-editor of the first leading latin-american science education research journal Enseñanza de las Ciencias published at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Catherine Milne is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University. She is a former high school science teacher with experience as a classroom teacher and administrator. She received her Ph.D. from Curtin University of Technology in Australia. Currently, she is working on a number of federally funded research projects investigating the use of multimedia representations to foster the learning of chemistry and ethnographic studies of chemistry education in urban contexts. She teaches courses in the history and philosophy of science, chemistry education, curriculum, and methods of teaching science.
Kathryn Scantlebury is an Associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Coordinator of Secondary Science Education in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware. She taught high school chemistry, science and mathematics for ten years before completing her doctorate at Purdue University. Her research interests focus on equity issues in science education.