Chiara Ballestri
is a researcher at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Claudio Baraldi
is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research focuses on adult-children interactions in educational contexts and forms of intercultural and interlinguistic communication and mediation. His most important interest is in the analysis of methods and techniques for dialogic facilitation of participation in education. He has published several papers in international books and journals, including Childhood, Intercultural Education, and International Journal of Early Childhood. In the fields of Childhood Studies and education, he has published a volume for Springer and co-edited volumes with John Benjamins, Palgrave, Routledge.
Edna Barromi-Perlman
is a faculty member of the Department of Visual Literacy in Kibbutzim College of Education in Israel. Edna is a research fellow of the Institute for Research of the Kibbutz and the cooperative idea in the University of Haifa, and a Research Associate of The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, at Brandeis University. USA. Her work appears in academic journals such as Social Semiotics, Journal of Israeli History, Journal of Visual Literacy, Photography and Culture, Journal of Landscape Ecology, and International Journal of Qualitative Methods. She received her PhD at the University of Sussex, and her MFA in Goldsmiths College, UK.
Lívia Barts
is a visual facilitator, a graphic recorder and designer, and a PhD student at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest), where she also teaches courses as a visiting lecturer. She has a degree in English Literature (ELTE, 2010) and in Graphic Design (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, 2012). Her graphic work is mainly focused on visual knowledge communication: from graphic notes and visual summaries to explanatory animations. Her research interests include visual thinking in learning, modern history of visual communication, pictorial abstraction, diagrammatic and non-linear information management techniques, and visualizations.
explores vernacular visual expression asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space? How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? Broadly situated in visual sociology and post-critical pedagogies, her interests include critical policy analysis, sociology of information, image studies, and politics of representation. She has ongoing projects on visual processes of legitimation, digital image theory and polymedia literacies. Books include The Semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways (2015/16). Cambre’s artistic works in encaustic, photography and multimedia collage have appeared as book and magazine cover art and in juried competitions.
Julián de la Fuente Prieto
is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Alcalá, Spain. His research is multidisciplinary, sharing perspectives and approaches from psychology, anthropology, history and sociology. Often collaborating with architects, engineers and artists, he uses qualitative and ethnographic methodologies and the analysis of multimodal discourse. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications examining social media, technology and young people’s digital engagement. He has also conducted several outreach projects for film heritage.
Elysse Deveaux
is an intermedia artist, educator and researcher based in Montreal, QC. Her graduate research focuses on curriculum development for critical media literacies at the K-12 level. She is a documentary filmmaker (National Film Board of Canada) and media producer for a diverse range of social entrepreneurs and education professionals for over 8 years (Twenty-One Toys and the University of Toronto’s iThink Education Initiative). She is the founder and creative director of Synapse Media.
Marc-André Heidelmann
is Professor of Social Work at the IU International University of Applied Science, Germany. He studied education, politics and economics, ethics, German language and literature, and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg, graduating with the state examination before earning his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation in educational science. He researched and taught for several years at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Marburg and at the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and in 2022, accepted an appointment at the IU. His research focuses in particular on qualitative-reconstructive learning and educational research. He
David Herman Jr.
(PhD) is Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. He is a lens-based exhibiting artist, educator, and scholar whose work explores the relations between the perceptual and the social as a political endeavor through a phenomenological framework he refers to as the Perceptual Rite of Passage (PRoP). Over the past 20 years, much of his teaching and social practices in art education, in and outside of public schools, has been associated with his visual literacy work as Co-founder of Preservation LINK, Inc. PLI (www.preservationlink.org), an arts education non-profit.
Andy Howes
is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester and Director of a large postgraduate secondary initial teacher education programme. His research activity includes engaging with young people, teachers and communities on activism around environmental sustainability. He has a long-term interest in the consequences of a commitment to relational equality in education and in research, and has explored this through articles and books on the use of photography in research, with doctoral student projects on classroom discourse and young people’s ideas about science, in many intercultural contexts.
Vittorio Iervese
is Associate Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (I) and is President of the Festival dei Popoli – Italian Institute for Social Documentation Film. His research activity has essentially focused on the following areas: Visual Culture, Visual Sociology, Conflict Management, Intercultural Communication, Social Participation, Sociology of Children. He has published several articles and essays on these topics and has curated different cultural events and festivals dedicated to photography and cinema.
Evelina Jaleniauskiene
has been working as a lecturer of English at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania for the last 14 years. She holds a PhD degree in Education, Social Sciences. Her PhD research focused on merging of learning a foreign language with the development of problem-solving skills. Jaleniauskiene is very
Pilar Lacasa Díaz
is Full Professor of Media Studies at the University of Alcalá, Spain. Her studies analyze how young people use digital media, for example, video games or social networks. Explore the conditions that allow active and responsible participation in society, mediated by the resources provided by the internet. She approaches everyday life and citizenship education from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has been a visiting researcher, among other foreign universities, in the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in the Digital Ethnography Research Center (DERC) – RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia).
Beja Margitházi
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. She is the author of the book The Cinema of the Face. Close-up and Film Style (in Hungarian, 2008) and co-editor of the anthology Visual Communication (in Hungarian, 2010). Her research interests include classic and cognitive film theory, visual studies, theories of trauma, documentary film. She is co-editor of Metropolis Hungarian journal of film theory and film history. Her articles and critical essays were published in Hungarian, Romanian, German and English in different periodicals and edited volumes.
Rut Martínez-Borda
is Professor of the University of Media Studies at the University of Alcalá, Spain. Her research is focused on education through art, programs for safe mobility, video games as cultural and educational objects or respect for creation from a field as complex as intellectual property. His research focuses especially on the field of communication and literacy. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Education (University of London), School of Communication (University of Westminster London), University of Delaware – Philadelphia.
Tommy Mayberry
(he/she/they) is the Executive Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta. As an academic drag queen, Tommy teaches and researches from an embodied standpoint exploring, individually
Susie Miles
is Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the Faculty of Humanities (2019–2022) at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research has explored innovative ways of documenting and sharing practice in inclusive education, primarily in the context of the Global South, and she has had 20 years of experience of using photovoice as a mechanism for sharing experience cross-culturally. Her career has included teaching deaf children, working for Save the Children in southern and Eastern Africa as Disability Advisor and founding and coordinating the Enabling Education Network (EENET).
Chase Mitchell
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in multimedia production, technical writing, and content management. He also directs the Technical & Professional Writing Minor, a shared program with the Department of Literature and Language. Chase holds a PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, and his research interests lie at the intersections of technical communication, digital rhetoric, and multimodal pedagogies. Chase lives in Bristol, Tennessee, with his wife Mott and their two dogs, Bigfoot and Fuzzle.
Gilad Padva
is a film, culture, men’s studies and queer theory scholar. He is the author of Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen (Routledge, 2020) and Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014) and co-editor of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014); Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017); and Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (Routledge, 2020). He publishes in academic journals, edited volumes and encyclopedias. He currently
John L. Plews
is Professor of German at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS. He earned Doctorates in German Literatures, Languages, & Linguistics (2001) and in Secondary Education (2010) from the University of Alberta. He has taught English as a foreign language, German language and culture, curriculum and instruction for second languages, second language acquisition, curriculum studies, and education research. Dr. Plews researches study abroad for language learners and teachers, second language learner identities, and second language curriculum and teaching. His work draws on critical and sociocultural theories as well as qualitative approaches such as interviews, journals, and expressive arts.
Claudia Ricca
is a researcher, artist, educator and local activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Trent University, Canada, an MA in Gender and Politics from the University of London and has worked for more than twenty years on environmental and human rights in Europe and Latin America. She develops her research and artistic practices with other feminist artists and academics from a wide range of disciplines and has presented and published several articles since 2017, including on art and memory, peasant and rural resistance in Argentina and Paraguay, and decolonial pedagogical practices.
Jennifer Roth Miller
(PhD) is a faculty member at the University of Central Florida in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media. Jennifer’s work seeks to better understand digital citizenship and social media engagement by exploring the convergence of communication, technology, philanthropy, and education in socially constructing collective views and actions for social justice. Jennifer’s work has been published in journals such as Hyperrhiz, SIGDOC, Enculturation, Xchanges, and TOPR. She is also a co-author of two book chapters in edited collections; one published by Routledge and the other published by University Press of Colorado.
Alma Scolnik
has degrees in Fine Arts Education at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) and Sociology of Culture and Cultural Analysis at the Instituto de Altos
Taneli Tuovinen
earned his doctoral degree in the field of visual arts education in 2016 at Aalto University, Finland. His thesis argues how visual thinking is present in all art forms. He has studied also at UdK Berlin and at Art University Linz. At Aalto University he holds a tenure-track lectureship in interdisciplinary arts pedagogy and he works also as a lecturer of art pedagogy in teacher education in dance and theater at the University of the Arts Helsinki. His research, international networks and publications are highly involved with the pedagogical debates of the higher teacher education in the arts.
Susanne Maria Weber
is Professor of Political, Cultural and Social Conditions and Contexts of Education at Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany. She helped establish organizational education as a research perspective on organizational and network learning. She co-chairs the European Educational Research Association’s (EERA) research network on organizational education and the World Educational Research Association’s (WERA) international research network (IRN) on organizational education and futures in organizing. From a discourse oriented research perspective, she analyzes the power of images, imagination and imaginaries within complex change and collective transformation. Using aesthetic methodologies for research and design, with discourse oriented consultancy approaches for organizational change and network transformation.
Elhem Younes
is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who develops a reflection and an artistic work aiming at questioning the modalities of construction of meaning, perception and imagination. She focuses particularly on the indiscernible as an aesthetic quality and a perceptual modality, and on the liberation of creativity in her pedagogical practices.
Jana Zehle
is Professor for Special Needs and Inclusive Education at the University of Applied Science Hannover, Germany and coordinator of the job-integrated study programme at the department. Her research activity focuses on participatory