Author Biographies

Susana Rams holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Murcia (Spain). She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Granada (Spain) and a PhD student at the University of Malaga (Spain) in the area of Science Education. She has fifteen years of teaching experience in teacher training in Primary and Secondary Education and has participated in numerous research and innovation projects. Her main research interests are Health Education, Environmental Education and Microscopy Education. She is a member of the Spanish Association of Teachers and Researchers in Sciences Education (APICE) and of the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA).
Sila Pla-Pueyo is a geologist and an educator. She has a PhD in Earth Sciences, and she also has training as a certified English as a foreign language instructor by Cambridge (CELTA certificate). She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Didactics of Experimental Sciences at the Faculty of Education (University of Granada, Spain), and she is also the Vice-Dean of Internationalisation of the faculty. She trains future Early Childhood and Primary Education teachers in science teaching. Her main line of research in the field of Education is on bilingual teaching in the science classroom through research-action, with a focus on the design and implementation of teaching–learning sequences using different methodological approaches, including IBSE and CLIL. She is a member of several professional associations, such as the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), the ESERA SIG 6 group (Special Interest Group Meeting on Languages and Literacies in Science Education), the Spanish Association of Teachers and Researchers in Sciences Education (APICE) and the Spanish Association of Teachers and Researchers in Earth Sciences Education (AEPECT).
Ángel Blanco-López is a Full Professor of Science Education at the University of Malaga (Spain). He has a degree in Chemistry and PhD in Chemistry Education. He is a teacher in the Master's program on Preservice Secondary Science Teacher Training at the University of Malaga and in the PhD program on Education and Social Communication at the University of Malaga. He coordinates the Interuniversity PhD program in Science Education at the University of Malaga. He is the author of more than 250 national and international publications (articles, books, book chapters and conference papers) on Science Education, teacher training and educational innovation. He is the head of the Research Group on Science Education and Competences (ENCIC). He has tutored 13 PhD students and is currently tutoring another 4. His research interests are currently focused on the teaching of science in the context of everyday problems through scientific practices of argumentation, inquiry and modelling, and in the development of critical thinking through the treatment of socio-scientific problems. He is the President of the Spanish Association of Teachers and Researchers in Sciences Education (APICE) from 2018 to 2022 and member, in addition to APICE, of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry, of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and of the Chile-Spain Inquiry Network (REDINCE).
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