Fatih Güngör is an associate professor and head of the Foreign Languages Education Department at the Faculty of Education, Afyon Kocatepe University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Theoretical Educational Science indexed in ERIC and ULAKBİM TR Dizin. His main research interests are academic writing, corpus linguistics, and teacher education.

Ali Yildirim is Professor of Pedagogical Work at University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He received his Ed.D. degree from Columbia University in 1993, and later worked at Middle East Technical University in Turkey for 25 years. He provided consultancy to Turkish Ministry of Education in nationwide research projects such as national achievement testing, parent education and vocational education. He served as educational consultant to World Bank financed projects in Turkey such as Preservice Teacher Education Development Project. Currently, he leads Didactic Classroom Studies with around 50 researchers at University of Gothenburg. His research interests include teaching and learning processes, curriculum planning and assessment, teacher education, and social studies education. His published books and articles focus on teacher education, instructional planning, thinking and learning skills, teaching of social studies and qualitative research. e-mail: ali.yildirim@gu.se https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/aliyildirim, https://www.gu.se/en/research/didactic-classroom-studies, https://www.gu.se/en/research/sallt, https://www.gu.se/en/research/mentor-growth, https://www.usn.no/english/for-partners/teacher-research-literacy/

Dr. Arlinda Beka is a distinguished Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Prishtina, where she currently chairs the doctoral school, demonstrating her leadership in postgraduate studies. Her academic and professional endeavors are characterized by a strong focus on pivotal areas within education, including the development of early childhood curricula, rigorous educational in research, and the formulation of effective education policies. Dr. Beka's commitment to fostering global collaboration in sustainable development is evident through her active membership in the UNESCO network for Education for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Beka's dedication to continuous professional growth is further exemplified by significant international experiences that have enriched her perspective and expertise. These include a Fulbright Faculty Exchange at James Madison University in the USA and participation in other international professional exchange mobilities, facilitating the exchange of best practices and innovative pedagogical approaches.

Throughout her career, Dr. Beka has demonstrated versatility and a profound commitment to the advancement of education through her active engagement in a wide array of roles and projects. Her contributions reflect a deep-seated passion for shaping effective educational practices and influencing policy development to enhance learning outcomes.

Martin Bílek graduated from the Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové (Czechia) in the field of chemistry and physics teaching, obtained a Ph.D. in pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University (Prague, Czechia) and was habilitated and inaugurated in the field of theory of chemistry teaching at the Faculty of Science at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia).
Currently he works at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, where he has successively held the positions of Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Didactics, Vice-Dean for Science and Research and Vice-Dean for Lifelong and Distance Education. Prior to that he worked at universities in the Czech Republic (UHK, UJEP) and abroad (NTNU Trondheim, University of Maribor, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, UKF in Nitra). In his professional activity he deals mainly with didactics of chemistry and his broader range of professional interests includes didactics of natural science and technical subjects, methodology of natural science cognition, pedagogical and disciplinary didactic research, use of ICT in education and other areas related to education and applied informatics. He is a member of a number of professional societies, scientific councils and expert committees, e.g. ad-hoc committees for pedagogical disciplines of the Slovak Higher Education Accreditation Agency or vice-chairman of the Committee of the Expert Group for Chemical Education of the Czech Chemical Society. He is or has been an investigator of MOST projects from Horizon2020, MaSciL from EU FP7 or GEM from EU LC programme, several projects of GAČR, TAČR and other scientific and development projects. He has published in journals focused on science education and applied informatics and is the author of several monographs, e.g. Didactics of Chemistry - Research and Undergraduate Teaching, Towards Virtualization of School Experimental Activities, Psychogenetic Aspects of Didactics of Chemistry, Interaction of Real and Virtual Environment in Early Science Education: Tradition and Challenges and Natural Science Education in the Information Society. ID ORCID 0000-0002-1076-4595