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managed a number of projects researching and collaborating with European partners. – A.Ash@ioe.ac.uk
Dragana Bjekić (PhD in Psychology) is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Pedagogy and Communicology for student-teachers at the Technical Faculty in Čačak, University of Kragujevac in Serbia. She is a member of the Serbian Association of Psychologists and the ATEE. Professional experience and activities: she conducts courses in the preservice education of technology teachers. She taught for two years at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Uzice from 1993 to 1995. Teachers’ professional development is the main topic of her investigation and practice. Her activities involving in-service teacher education: the author/co-author and trainer of the three programmes of teachers’ professional in-service education. Her special activities and training: a gestalt psychotherapist and trainer-manager for business communication. She is the author of the monograph Teachers’ Professional Development (1999), university textbooks, university and teachers’ handbooks, and 85 scientific papers. Her main fields of research interests are Psychology of Teachers, Educational Communicology, Business Communication, Evaluation and Docimology. – dbjekic@ptt.yu
Lesley Burgess is a Senior Lecturer in Art, Design and Museology at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is Course Leader for the PGCE courses in Art and Design and a tutor in both the MA Art and Design in Education and MA Museums and Galleries in Education courses. She has co-edited Issues in Art & Design Teaching (2003), Learning & Teaching in Art & Design (2nd edition) (2007) both published by Routledge Falmer. Her main research interests are curriculum development, issues of gender, contemporary art & artists in education, built environment education & citizenship. She codirected, with the V&A, a DfEE-funded research project ‘Creative Connections’ (2002) which investigated the use of galleries and museums as a learning resource and she also co-directed ‘En-quire: Critical Minds’ (2005-6), a DfES/DCMS research project evaluating the significance of learning in contemporary art galleries for secondary education. – L.Burgess@ioe.ac.uk