Dr. David Anderson is a Professor in the fields of Visitor Studies, Museum Education and Science Education, and is the Director of the Master of Museum Education (MMEd) degree program at UBC. He has made significant contributions to these fields through initiating, reforming and strengthening collaborations between museums, schools and universities. Through these reforms his work has been instrumental in energizing the remarkable wealth of cultural, historic, and social significance represented in museum institutions. He is a Japan Foundation, Ritsumeikan and Unversitas 21 Research Fellow, and his research contributions span the Globe, but have had particular impact and relevance for the nations of Asia, including China, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Japan. He has worked on the leading edge of the trends in educational reforms in Asia, identifying the needs, working harmoniously within the changes, and bridging disconnected groups in ways that are yielding considerable benefits to education. His work is releasing and revitalizing the extraordinary educational wealth of culture and history held in museums throughout the World.
Ann Rowson Love is Associate Professor and Director of Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She is the co-editor of three books Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums (2017), Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Pracice (2017), and Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices (2023). She is co-author of An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums (2024). She publishes and presents internationally.
Christopher Punzalan is an associate member of the Department of Science and Technology National Research Council of the Philippines Division 1 and an assistant professor at the National University Philippines. He is pursuing an EdD educational management program at the National University Manila. He also attended a postgraduate summer school at the Education University of Hong Kong, a master’s degree in integrated science at the Philippine Normal University as a DOST thesis scholar, and an undergraduate teacher education program in power plant engineering technology at the Technological University of the Philippines. Christopher is a Licensed Professional Teacher in the Philippines. As a researcher, his works related to science education, STEM, ESD, and green technology were published in various reputable journals. Lastly, he looks for approaches to enhance the integration of environmental education and sustainability in the various curricula.
Born in 1968 at Ceyhan province of Adana. In 1987, entered the Painting-Handiwork Teaching Department at Gazi University and graduated in 1991. Assigned to teacher duty the same year. Gazi University Received Masters degree in 2002 and doctorate degree in 2006. She became an associate professor in 2011 and a professor in 2018. Opened fourteen personal exhibitions ten of which are international. Attended to 300 national and international mixed exhibitions.
33 books, one of which is a double author and the other is an editor and chapter writer; More than 130 scientific articles and papers were published in academic journals and symposium books. His academic publications have received over 1770 citations to date.
In addition, in 2022, 2023 according to the average of the last 5 years, AD Scientific Index was among the top 10,000 in the list, which was prepared based on open profiles in Google Scholar and listed the 800 thousand most cited academics.
He took part in dozens of national and international social responsibility projects. Mercin worked as an executive and as an expert in some of the Projects of UNESCO, UNICEF, EUROPEAN UNION, TUBITAK, BAP and Development Agencies. He was the manager of the founding project of DPÜ TV. He took part in the commissions that updated the Visual Arts Course, Technology and Design Course and Elective Visual Arts Course Curriculum. He also took part in the commission that prepared the books of these programs and served as coordinator. He served in the design centers monitoring committee of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. He took part as an executive in the official establishment and opening of the Private Ahmet Yakupoğlu Museum in 2023, and in moving the Kütahya Dumlupınar University Museum to its new building and activating it. He served as the chairman of the Visual Arts Education Association for two terms. Mercin, who is married and the father of three children, is currently a lecturer at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design Department and has been the Dean of the same Faculty since 2019.