We are excited to welcome a group of outstanding experts to our EJTE editorial board! Their deep knowledge, wealth of experience and dedication to advancing teacher education research, policy, and practice will help guide and shape the future of our journal.
Please join us in warmly welcoming Dario Luis Banegas, Laurinda Leite, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Antoni Badia, Eva Lopes Fernandes, Sonja Lutovac and Anett Wolgast.
Dario Luis Banegas is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. He leads a research group on intersectionality in language teacher education. His main interests are content and language integrated learning, social justice in the language curriculum, and action research.
Laurinda Leite is a Science Education Specialist at the University of Minho, Portugal. Her research interests combine teacher education with PBL, contextualized learning, practical work, and history of science. She is national coordinator of international projects on teaching for promoting energy literacy and maker-based education.
Xuesong (Andy) Gao is Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests include language teacher education, language education policy, and language learner autonomy.
Antoni Badia is a Professor of Psychology of Education in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. His research interests include teacher identity, teacher learning, technology-enhanced learning, and online learning.
Eva Lopes Fernandes is a Junior researcher at the Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal. Her research interests include assessment, curriculum, teacher education, teacher professional development and educational leadership.
Sonja Lutovac is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland. Her research interests include teacher identity development in teaching mathematics and more generally, emotional and relational dimensions of becoming a teacher and of teachers’ work, reflection, narrative pedagogies, and narrative research.
Anett Wolgast is a Professor of Psychology with a focus on educational psychology, statistics, and research methods at University of Applied Sciences FHM Hanover, Germany. Her research encompasses social perspective-taking and cooperation in educational contexts, including sustainable strategies for adaptation to climate change, emotion regulation, and dealing with antisocial behaviour.