2023
SSEY
Coral Campbell
Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia
Coral Campbell is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. Coral has worked in partnership with many early childhood centres and schools locally and has contributed to an enhancement of early childhood science education through the development of early childhood units (science, science and technology, science and the environment, and STEM). She has co-edited a text in Early Childhood Science Education – the first in Australia and now on its third revision. Coral is the current Early Childhood Science SIG Coordinator (with Estelle Blanquet) for the European Science Education Research Association. In 2017, she was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Association for Graduates of Early Childhood Studies to undertake research at the LUMA Centre at the University of Helsinki. Across 2017-2019 Coral has provided in excess of 15 STEM workshops for early childhood teachers across Australia.
Christine Howitt
Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr. Christine Howitt is an associate professor in early childhood science education in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia. Christine’s research focuses on young children's science learning in informal contexts and the use of photobooks to enhance science identity. Christine has published 5 books, 20 book chapters and 25 peer–reviewed journal articles. In 2019, she wrote the first Early Childhood Science review of 100 research articles for Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Being passionate about making science accessible to all, Christine has published numerous early childhood science books including textbooks (Science in Early Childhood, 4th edition, 2020), teacher resources (Planting the Seeds of Science, 2010; Eyes Wide Open, 2020) and a children’s story book (Science is Everywhere, 2010). She has also won various teaching excellence awards at the university, state and national level for her innovative and engaging teaching in early childhood science education.
Leticia Gallegos-Cázares
Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Dr. Leticia Gallegos-Cázares is a researcher on science education and a professor of graduate degrees in education. She is interested in researching children’s ideas and their reasoning processes in science. She is also interested in children's multicultural ideas in science. Dr. Gallegos-Cázares collaborates to design educational proposals for science teaching and developing educational materials.
Hanno van Keulen
Professor, Windesheim University of Applied Science, The Netherlands
Hanno van Keulen currently is a professor of education at Windesheim University of Applied Science. He received his PhD from the Department of Chemistry of Utrecht University and specialized in inquiry and design-based learning and in educational development. His research in STEM education focuses on ways to co-develop language skills, social and executive skills, cultural sensitivity and creativity, and in this way to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable society. Hanno van Keulen is editor-in-chief of the European Journal of STEM Education.
Amauri Betini Bartoszeck
Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Amauri Betini Bartoszeck is an associate professor of neuroscience and emergent science education with the Biological Sciences Institute at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (London, UK). Dr. Bartoszeck serves an editorial role with European Journal of Educational Research and Educere Revista da Educação, among other international journals. His work with young children focuses on young children’s drawings, particularly with regards to children’s conceptual understanding as conveyed by visual representations.
Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux, France
Kathy Cabe Trundle
Professor, Utah State University, United States
Bio will be added soon.
Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux, France
Fani Stylianidou
Senior Researcher, State Scholarship Foundation, Greece
Bio will be added soon.
Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux, France
Karen Murcia
Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University (Australia)
Karen Murcia (PhD) is a Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. She has an established track record of research related to scientific literacy for sustainability, STEM education and creativity with digital technologies. Dr Murcia has been recognized internationally for her research into pedagogical interactivity and technology enhanced learning environments. As a specialist in the field of digital technologies in early childhood education, she has led investigations into how tangible coding technologies impacted young children’s development of computational thinking and creativity during STEM inquiry projects. Importantly, Dr Murcia leads the Curtin University Node of the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. As a leading Chief Investigator, her research team is investigating the impact of digital technologies on children living and growing in the digital age. Dr Murcia is a lead co-editor, and contributing author in the Springer published books Young Children's Rights in the Digital World: Play, Design and Practice (2021) and Children’s Creative STEM Inquiry (2022). In addition, Dr Murcia’s expertise in STEM education and digital technologies for learning is recognised and utilized through her ongoing Board position with Scitech, which is Western Australia’s preeminent science discovery centre.
Estelle Blanquet
Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux (France)
Estelle Blanquet is an associate professor in science education at the Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Education d’Aquitaine (INSPE) of the University of Bordeaux (France). Her main research interests are the nature of science at the primary school level and the study of experimental inquiry practices in Kindergarten. She has been training Kindergarten and elementary school teachers in science since 2000. She is a part of the French e-Fran-funded project Perseverons and is co-coordinator of the SIG Early Years Science for the ESERA conference.
Fernando Flores Camacho
Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Dr. Fernando Flores Camacho is a researcher in Science Education and professor of Master and Doctoral degrees in Education. His fields of interest include conceptual and representational change in science education and epistemology of science. His research with young children focuses on representational and reasoning processes about physics topics.
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Elena Calderón-Canales
Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Elena Calderón-Canales (PhD) is an educational psychologist at the UNAM. Her research focuses on learning in different specific domains of knowledge (physics, chemistry, biology and psychology), the development of teaching and learning strategies and materials for students of different educational levels, as well as various projects related to teacher training.