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Lori Czop Assaf

is a professor in reading education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University. She is past director of the Central Texas Writing Project and teaches the study abroad program to South Africa. Her research focuses on teacher learning, teacher identity, and supporting K‒12 English Language Learners as readers and writers. Dr. Assaf is committed to international collaboration specifically on culturally mediated writing instruction across the disciplines and professional development for preservice and in-service teachers.

Paul Boey

is a postdoctoral fellow in art from Southeast University in China. His research specialty and interests include Chinese and foreign art history, art education, and the development of culture and art through One Belt One Road in China and Southeast Asia. He served as the director and master’s degree supervisor of the Oriental Culture and Art Research Centre of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce in 2018 and was appointed visiting professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University in China in 2019. Currently, he is a supervisor of master’s and doctoral students at New Era University College in Malaysia and a committee member of the World Chinese Arts Education Association. Boey has presented research-based papers at national and international academic conferences and has authored art-related publications, including two volumes of A History of Malaysian Art (2016).

Hsin-Yi Chao

is an assistant professor in the Cultural and Creative Industry program at the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. After earning a Master of Fine Arts at the National Taipei University of Education and a Ph.D. in architecture at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, she continued postdoctoral research in the psychology graduate program at the University of Toronto in Canada. She spent 10 years as a visual art teacher at a primary school and the last six as a curator working on accessible technology and multisensory exhibitions at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The founder of the national nonprofit Taiwan Art Beyond Vision Association, Dr. Chao focuses her research on nonvisual art educational theory and practice, accessible technology applications, universal display design, audio description of art, and tactile‒spatial cognition research focusing on special education, psychology, museums, and art to promote equal rights to art education for those with visual impairment.

Yichien Cooper

is an artist, educator, author, and arts advocate, serving as a career-track assistant professor and field supervisor at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. In her research she explores STEAM education, arts-based pedagogy, data visualization, socially responsible teaching, mixed identity, and Asian aesthetics. Dr. Cooper has not only delivered keynote addresses and conducted workshops in Australia, China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye, and the United States, but she has also published extensively on integrating arts curriculum for Chinese educators. As the current Director of the Higher Education Division for the National Art Education Association, she has received numerous honors, including the 2019 City of Richland Proclamation of Appreciation, the 2023 Ziegfeld Service Award from the United States Society of Education through Art, the 2024 Kathy Connors Teaching Award from the NAEA Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education, and the 2024 Washington State University, Tri-Cities Campus Distinguished Teaching Award.

Yeliz Erdoğan

is a native Trabzon, Türkiye, graduated in 2014 from the Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) Faculty of Education, specializing in fine art education. Having earned her master’s degree in Fine Art Education from OMU in 2018 and her doctorate from Anadolu University Institute of Educational Sciences in 2023 with a concentration on STEAM education, she currently serves as a lecturer at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, specializing in fine arts education with a focus on STEAM integration. She continues to advance her work in this field while teaching courses on STEAM applications in the visual arts.

Suzan Duygu Bedir Erişti

is an esteemed professor at Anadolu University’s Faculty of Education, specializing in fine arts education. Dr. Erişti’s academic journey includes master’s and doctoral degrees in art, visual design, art history, and education. She is dedicated to innovative pedagogical methods, using art-based and visual research techniques, and pioneering a/r/tography methodologies. Her research interests encompass digital visual culture, AI in art education, technology-driven pedagogy, multicultural art education, graphic design, interactive instructional design, gamification, digital storytelling, and STEAM applications. She explores the intersection of digital visual culture and artificial intelligence in her work. Dr. Erişti is a fervent advocate for international collaboration, participating in national and international exhibitions, research initiatives, and projects. Recognized as Visual Arts Educator of the Year in 2016, she continues to make significant contributions to academia, demonstrating unwavering dedication to excellence and profound impact in her field.

Maria Evagorou

is an associate professor of science education at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Her research focuses on STEM education with an emphasis on integrated STEM and teacher professional development. Dr. Evagorou participates in funded projects on argumentation, socioscientific issues, the role of language and culture in the teaching of STEM [IncluSME], and support for girls who wish to pursue STEM careers. Maria currently leads a policy initiative as part of a European project, placing emphasis on the development of STEM training for in-service and preservice teachers.

Jonah B. Firestone

is currently an associate professor in science education in the College of Education at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. Dr. Firestone has also worked as a science and mathematics teacher for diverse groups of students in Arizona. With over 20 years’ experience working with large-scale and high-stakes test preparation, creation, teacher-training, and evaluation in the U.S. and Hong Kong, he is the principal investigator for the Simulation and Integrated Media for Instruction, Assessment, and Neurocognition (SIMIAN) Laboratory on the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus. His research concerns the use of emerging technologies in virtual reality, augmented reality, and neurocognition in decision-making, attitude formation, and problem-solving in students as well as simulations to foster learning. He also leads the development of a computer science education certificate program for K‒12 teachers in Washington.

Snow Yunxue Fu

is an assistant arts professor at the Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University. She sees new media art making within a postphotographic framework as one of the most exciting interdisciplinary and relevant art fields of the 21st century. An internationally exhibited new media artist practicing for over a decade, Fu is active as a curator and collaborator with international artists and arts organizations focused on emerging simulation technologies, such as 3D, VR, AR, Web 3.0, and the metaverse, where her projects are hosted on social VR platforms like Sansar, Mozilla Hubs, and Decentraland.

David Glassmeyer

is a professor of mathematics education at Kennesaw State University, GA, USA, who teaches graduate mathematics and mathematics education courses in the online M.Ed., Ed.S., and Ed.D. programs in middle and secondary grades education. Dr. Glassmeyer aims to help teachers increase STEAM integration and consequently K‒12 student learning. As a mathematics education researcher, he focuses on examining and developing teachers’ STEM content knowledge, specifically secondary teachers’ reasoning of mathematics concepts.

Luke Hampton

is an art educator and alumnus of the Visual Arts Administration program at New York University. He has over 15 years of experience in international art education and urban nonprofits, developing curricula for visual arts, writing, and technology in the United States and China and is active in the contemporary art world as a writer and collaborator with Snow Yunxue Fu. As an educator he currently trains international students to succeed as artists and professionals. As a researcher Hampton engages in the culture, histories, and current events that shape the experiences of artists and art students from China.

Kevin Hsieh

is a professor of art education at Georgia State University, GA, USA. Dr. Hsieh’s research topics include instructional technology, museum education, LGBTQ+ issues, AsianCri pedagogy, and transdisciplinary art education. He has presented his research studies internationally. His articles have appeared in research journals, such as Studies in Art Education, Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Museology Quarterly, Humanities and Social Sciences Research, Journal of Fine Arts, Journal of Liberal Arts, International Journal of Art and Design Education, and Social Sciences.

Sean Justice

is an associate professor of art education at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Dr. Justice teaches and writes about art and computer science education, creative computation, and teacher education in the digital age. As an artist, he has exhibited photographs, videos and computer animations both nationally and internationally. His book Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools was published by Peter Lang in 2016. In 2020 he received a National Science Foundation award to study teachers’ computational thinking in early childhood classrooms with 4- to 8-year-old children.

Chia-Hung Kao

is an assistant professor from National Kaohsiung Normal University, specializing in art education and printmaking. Dedicated to promoting art education and practicing the spirit of A/r/tography, he was honored in 2021 with the Award for Excellence in Praxis by the International Society for Education through Art, a UNESCO affiliate. His printmaking works have garnered accolades, including the Gold Medal at the Taiwan Fine Arts Exhibition and the Kaohsiung Award. His works are collected by the Ministry of Culture and international galleries.

Alice Lai

is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at Empire State University, State University of New York, USA, where she formerly coordinated undergraduate online arts curriculum for 20 years. She earned a Ph.D. in art education from the Ohio State University and an M.A. in art education and a B.A. in graphic design from California State University at Los Angeles. She received the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship at Empire State University and the Marantz Distinguished Alumni Lectureship Award from the Ohio State University. Her teaching topics include diversity in the arts, women’s art history, art theory, and arts-based research. Her research topics include art education, STEAM education, Asian American transnational art, and critical theories and pedagogies encompassing feminism, critical multiculturalism, anticolonialism, and digital equality. She frequently publishes in the field of art education and delivers presentations at national and international conferences.

Christine Liao

(Ph.D.) is an associate professor and coordinator of the Art Education MAT program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research areas include not only theorizing virtual body and identity and exploring interactions of the virtual and the real but also media arts and digital performance, STEAM, technology integration in art education, and intercultural education. She has presented at national and international conferences, including NAEA, AERA, and InSEA, and has published in journals in the field of art education and education.

Don McMahon

is an associate professor of special education at Washington State University, who has proven experience leading research teams during the implementation of technology-based interventions for people with ID and ASD. Dr. McMahon has conducted research on a variety of technology-based interventions for individuals with disabilities, including mobile devices, video modeling, communication tools, podcast-based read-aloud testing accommodations, augmented reality applications, and virtual reality. In summer 2011 he was selected to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education summer institute on universal design for learning. Dr. McMahon has 12 years of experience involving inclusive postsecondary education. A cofounder of the WSU ROAR program, he has served as its director.

Isao Ohashi

is a professor emeritus of Okayama University as well as a professor of education at Wakayama Shinai University in Japan. His research focuses on the learning process in art as a progression toward self-actualization, the relationship between perception and representation, and teaching methods for education through art from infancy to adolescence. He has served as the representative director of the Art Education Society of Japan and president of the Japan Practical Art Education Society. His research has been published in his books on art education, as book chapters, and in numerous journals in the field of art education in Japan.

Vedat Özsoy

graduated from the Gazi Faculty of Education in Türkiye, completing his master’s degree at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in U.K., his Ph.D. at Gazi University, and his postdoctorate fellowship at Arizona State University in the USA. He achieved the rank of professor in 2004. Having founded the Visual Arts Education Association (GÖRSED) in 2003, he served as its president until 2010. Prof. Özsoy also served as the InSEA Secretary (2014–2017). In addition, he has published books and articles on art and design education, museum education, curriculum development, and art teacher education.

Eliza Pitri

earned a B.A. in early childhood education from the University of Cyprus and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art education from the University of Texas–Austin and The Ohio State University, respectively. She is currently an associate professor of art education in the Department of Education at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, teaching in both the undergraduate and the graduate program. Her research interests focus on socioconstructivist learning through the visual arts in various contexts by facilitating meaningful artmaking related to processes and skills, such as constructing a knowledge base, playfulness, flexibility, risk-taking, fluency, originality, humor, problem finding, and problem solving.

Shyh-Shiun Shyu

is the chairperson of Hakka Affairs Commission, Taipei City Government, who obtained his master’s degree in molecular genetics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Before joining Taipei City Government, he was the Taipei City Councilor, focusing on digital education and antidrug programs for children. He is also a devoted, lifelong volunteer with autistic children and is now a board member of the Republic of China (ROC) Foundation for Autistic Children and Adults in Taiwan.

Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt

(Ph.D.) is a professor of art education at Middle Tennessee State University. She authored Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K Through High School (2020), a widely-adopted art methods textbook, followed by STEAM Teaching and Learning Through the Arts and Design: A Practical Guide for PK12 Educators (2023), her second book. Sickler-Voigt served as the senior editor for NAEA’s Assessment Papers for Art Education from 2016 to 2023. She received the Ziegfeld Service Award in 2022 from the United States Society for Education Through Art and the Southeastern Region Higher Education Art Educator Award in 2023 from the National Art Education Association.

Agni Stylianou-Georgiou

is an associate professor of educational psychology in the Department of Education at the University of Nicosia. She studied elementary education at the University of Cyprus and earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology (cognition and instruction) from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests focus on metacognition, and creative teaching and learning in face-to-face and digital environments. She has been involved in EU-funded projects targeting the role of information and communication technologies in enabling a pedagogy for autonomy for teacher professional development and fostering dialogue and argumentation for cultural literacy learning in schools using wordless picture books.

Michael White

is the interim director of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design and an Associate Professor of Interior Design. He is both NCARB and NCIDQ certified and is a registered architect and interior designer in the State of Georgia with degrees from Mississippi State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Michael joined Georgia State following an extensive national career in interior architectural practice, most notably as Studio Director of the Atlanta office of Gensler—the nation’s largest interior architecture firm. His 20+ years of professional experience in commercial interiors included more than one million square feet in projects for national clients including Aetna, the McDonald’s Corporation, Bank of America, BlueCross BlueShield, GTE, and Atlanta’s own legal powerhouse, King & Spalding.

So Lan Wong

is currently a senior lecturer and the program leader of the Professional Development Programme (Visual Arts Teaching) in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at the Education University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong’s research interests include visual arts curricula and instructional design, including STEAM teaching. She is currently a member of the author team of Hong Kong Chronicles—Visual Arts (《香港志:視覺藝術》; 2022–25), a consultant (Phases 1–3, 2020–2023), and the principal investigator (Phase 3) of the Special Education Needs Section of the Curriculum Development Institute of the Hong Kong Education Bureau. She is also a specialist in the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (2018–2024) and the Vice Chairman of the World Chinese Art Education Association (2019–2025).

Yui-Chih Wu

is a Ph.D. student in art education at Taiwan Normal University and a licensed art teacher in Taiwan. She has worked at the Ju Ming Museum, where she established alliances between the museum and schools in New Taipei County. This experience led to her employment at Gymchina, an art education institution in China, where she sought to expand contemporary art into the realm of children. When she served as vice CEO of Taipei Hakka Cultural Foundation, she integrated contemporary art education into ethnic cultural education. Her work focuses on STEAM, arts-based research, and data visualization.

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