TECONF
The Scientific Minds Powering International Conference on Teaching and Education
Every great conference is built on knowledge, integrity, and collaboration. Our scientific committee embodies these values, guiding the event toward academic success.
Committee Members Section
University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Linda Torresin
Postdoctoral Fellow at the LEND Delegate of the associaon LEND (Lingua e Nuova Didaca) – University of Padua. Currently, she is also a Vising Researcher at Vilnius University. With major expertise in RFL (Russian as a Foreign Language) studies, her main research focus lies in intercultural education and textbook theory.
University of Presov, Slovakia
Assoc. Ivana Pirohová
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Prešov. Her main research focus is on culturally responsive teaching of adults with primary and lower secondary education, and also adults from marginalised Roma communities. Her current research focuses on cooperation between kindergartens and parents of children from Roma communities.
Tennessee Technological University, United States
Dr. Melissa Comer
Dr. Melissa Comer is a faculty member in the College of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction. She teaches literacy related courses on-ground and online environments at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Professional activities include multiple presentations, keynote addresses, interactive webinars, various publications, service activities, and diverse publications in assorted venues, journals/books, and reputable organizations.
Faculty of European Studies, Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU), Georgia
Dr. Natia Abashidze
Dr. Natia Abashidze is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Education, Department of Languages and Information Technologies
at Shota Rustavely State University in Batumi, Georgia. She teaches French as a second foreign language, French for Sepecific Purposes,
Foreign language teaching methods.
The focal issues of her research are Foreign language teaching methods, French language, Contrastive analysis, Linguo-Cultural Studies,
Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Endangered languages.
Dept of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Dr. Rachel Takriti
Dr. Rachel Takriti is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and the Chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department in the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Dr Rachel has a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Surrey. Prior to moving to the UAE, she held positions at Birmingham University, Sheffield Hallam University, and Leeds Beckett University. Dr Rachel’s research interests are: science education in early years; starting school experiences and educational transitions; differences in how transitions are experienced by different groups; cross-cultural education in the early years; and the understanding of social groups, prejudice and discrimination in childhood.
Faculty of Education, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosovo
Prof. Asoc. Dr. Fatlume Berisha
Scientific Committee – University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosova
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”. Her main research interests are in active teaching and learning of sciences, particularly chemistry education, STEM education, learning in maker space labs, and environmental education. More recently, she has grown interested in the education of science citizenship, value education, pre-service and in-service science teachers’ beliefs, and science teacher professional development
Lecturer, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Northern Cyprus
Asst. Prof. Dr. Elmaziye Özgür Küfi
started her teaching career at Bilkent University in 1994. After moving to her home country Cyprus in 1997, she has been teaching students at various levels at Eastern Mediterranean University. Recently, she has mainly taught postgraduate students and pre-service teachers of English in the Foreign Language Education Department, Faculty of Education. Her research interests include writing pedagogy, teacher development, educational change, socio-constructivist learning theory and the use of technology in English language teaching. Currently, she is supervising research on the use of Chat-GBT and Flipped-classrooms in teaching and learning English.
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Humanities Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Nooreen Noordin
Nooreen Noordin holds a doctoral degree from Universiti Putra Malaysia in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language. She is a senior lecturer at the Department of Language and Humanities Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests are on language learning technology, content-based instruction and learning styles. She has authored and co-authored several book chapters and journal papers. She was also the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship Award for the Teaching Category in 2016.
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Luciana Cristina da Costa Audi
Associate Professor, “VasileAlecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Dr. Liliana Mâţă
Department of Pre-school and Elementary Pedagogy and Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Presov, Slovakia
Dr. Janka Ferencová
is a university teacher at the Faculty of Education, University of Presov in Presov. She completed her Master's degree in Pedagogy and Civics at the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences at University of Presov in 2000. In 2008, she completed her doctoral studies in Pedagogy. Currently, she is a university associate professor at the Department of Pre-School and Elementary Pedagogy and Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of Presov.
Her research and pedagogical activities are situated in the field of teachers' professional development, with a special focus on educational action research as a form of professional development, school culture and theory of instruction.
Dept. of Science and Technology Education, College of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa
Dr. Shabalala NP
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, South Africa
Dr. Kananga R. Mukuna
Dr. Kananga R. Mukuna works in Interdisciplinary and Integrated Educational Psychology, Inclusive Education, Educational Psychology, and Community Psychology. He is active in various research areas on psychological assessment, psychosocial factors, rural education, and multiculturalism. His research has produced several scientific research papers and has been published in accredited peer-reviewed international journals and two book chapters. He has presented his work at both national and international conferences. He is an academic champion of the International Collaboration Engagement between the University of the Free State (UFS) (South Africa) and the Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany). He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education Foundations at the UFS.
He has supervised honours, master’s, and doctoral candidates. He is an NRF Funding holder and the Most Promising Emerging Researcher for 2020 in the UFS Faculty of Education. He has developed and adjusted learning study guides: Relationship in the Educational Context, inclusive for teaching and learning, and Psychology of Education modules related to the PQM programme for Qwaqwa Campus, implemented in 2021. He is the initiator of the International Journal of Studies in Psychology. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow with a Master’s in Educational Psychology from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Honours in Industrial Psychology from the University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He serves as a Special Interest Group leader for the Psychosocialities of Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Education, UFS.
Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Philology, "Fan S. Noli" University, Albania
Dr. Evjonda Pylli
Dr. Evjonda Pylli is a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Philology, “Fan S. Noli”, University, Korce, Albania. She completed her doctorate on April, 03, 2017, Department of Psycho-Pedagogy at the “University of Tirana”, Faculty of Social Science. She has an experience of more than 10 years as a lecturer in higher education. She has participated in conferences and activities related to education, management, quality assurance, planning, etc. She is a lecturer of several subjects such as: Critical thinking, Social World of the Children, Pedagogical Comunication, Knowledge in Social Sciences, Models of didactic mediation, Classroom management, Social Psychology.
The Areas of expertise are; teaching methodology, preparation and training of teachers of pre-university education. She participated in the training of teachers in the service of pre-university education, as a trainer of the module: "Education for human rights", part of the Vocational Training Center at University "Fan S. Noli", Korce, from 2016 onwards, providing assistance in the field of education for pre-university teachers.
She currently runs a non-profit organization that is focused on children and parents in the field of education and inclusion. Evionda also, has participated as a local coordinator and board member in non-profit organizations of psycho-social nature, which among other things, they focus on the engagement of local and foreign lecturers and professionals in the development of seminars, trainings, and similar psycho-educational activities, as well as the treatment of problems in education, their management and the improvement of teaching methods. She has been part of national and international projects as leader and in the capacity of expert, supporting teacher through training of students coming from the vulnerable layers in Albania.
She has participated in working groups at the institutional level as a member of the commission for the Evaluation of the Periodic Internal Report on different study programs. She has published as an author and co-author, scientific researches and professional articles, some of which have been published in foreign journals in English language, with impact factor or indexed in Scopus, etc.
English Department, Faculty of Arts and Foreign Languages, Abou Bakr Belkaid University, Algeria
Dr. Asma Belkhir
She is a PhD holder in 2024 in the field of Didactics and Assessment in Language Teaching, Department of English, Tlemcen University. Algeria. After graduation, she started out as a part-time teacher in diverse fields but her interest goes for teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). She writes four articles and participated in/organized more than six national/international scientific events. In her journey, she participated in syllabus design for business learners of different levels and designed an application to teaching English for business students. Her expertise, motivation and continuous efforts incorporated her to enter into another insight and now she is the editorial board of International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research (IJLTER) journal and International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS). She is now seeking an oversea experience as a full-time lecturer.
Department of Science and Technology Education, University of South Africa, South Africa
Prof. TA Mapotse
Department of Science and Technology Education, University of South Africa, South Africa
Prof LOM Lebeloane
College of Education, Department of Science and Technology Education, University of South Africa, South Africa
Dr. Patricia Photo
Lecturer, Faculty of Education Sciences, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Romania
Dr. Iliana Dumitrescu
College of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa
Dr. EC Ndlovu
Permanent Teacher, Public Primary School of Acharnes, Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs, Greece
Dr. Pandora Dorouka
School of Education, The College of New Jersey, United States
Dr. Tamara Tallman
English Philology Department, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia
Assistant Prof. Dr. Ana Chankvetadze
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