Sibel Erduran

Sibel Erduran is a Professor of Science Education and Fellow of St Cross College at University of Oxford, UK. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the Academy of Social Sciences, and Editor of International Journal of Science Education. Previously she served as the President of the European Science Education Research Association and the Editor-in-Chief of Science & Education. She has been a science and chemistry teacher in a secondary school in northern Cyprus. Her research interests focus on the infusion of epistemic practices of science in science education. The motivation for this area of research is the need to equip future scientists and citizens alike with knowledge and skills about how science works as well as how scientific knowledge and scientific ways of knowing can contribute to society. Her work on argumentation has received international recognition through awards from NARST and EASE. She has been the recipient of funding from Wellcome Trust, EU Marie Curie Brain Circulation Scheme and Templeton World Charity Foundation, among others. Her books include Argumentation in Chemistry Education: Research, Policy and Practice (Royal Society of Chemistry) and Reconceptualizing the nature of science for science education: Scientific knowledge, practices and other family categories (Springer).