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Session 2. Priorities of Museum Education in a Global Context Session 3. Processes of Museum Education in a Global Context
 George E. Hein, Professor Emeritus at Lesley University, is active in visitor studies and museum education as a researcher and teacher. Originally trained as a chemist (Ph. D. University of Michigan, and faculty positions at U. of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, Boston University and Harvard Medical School) he turned to science education and then museum education, joining Lesley University in 1975. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Kings' College, London (1990), visiting faculty member at the University of Leicester Museum Studies Program (1996), Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1998), Osher Fellow at The Exploratorium in San Francisco (1999) and Visiting Professor at University of Technology, Sydney (2000). He serves on the advisory boards for several museum exhibition development teams, and as a consultant for numerous museums. He is the author, with Mary Alexander, of Museums, Places of Learning (AAM, 1998) and of Learning in the Museum (Routledge, 1998) as well as numerous articles on visitor studies, museum education and museology. He has lectured widely, including cultural tours in Brazil, Finland, Greece, Mexico, Norway Spain and Taiwan. He has been active in ICOM/CECA serving as both secretary and president of CECA in the 1990's. His primary current interest is the significance of John Dewey's work for museums.Further information about lectures, publications and interests can be found on Heins web page at: http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/ghein/index.html Astradur Eysteinsson  Astradur Eysteinsson is professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. He has taught at the University of Iceland since 1987, but has also been a visiting professor in comparative literature and translation studies at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Iowa. His publications include co-translations of works by Franz Kafka and Max Frisch into Icelandic, several articles in the general area of literary, cultural and translation studies, and three books: The Concept of Modernism (Cornell UP 1990), Tvímæli (on translation and translation studies, University of Iceland Press 1996) and Umbrot (on literature and modernity, University of Iceland Press 1999). He has edited several books, including The Cultural Reconstruction of Places (University of Iceland Press 2006), and is the co-editor (with Daniel Weissbort) of Translation – Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader (Oxford UP 2006), and (with Vivian Liska) of Modernism (2 vols., International Comparative Literature Association/John Benjamins Publications 2007).
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Jocelyn Dodd works at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), which is part of the internationally renowned Department of Museum Studies, at the University of Leicester, UK. Her work focuses on learning and the social role of Museums and Galleries and how they can challenge inequality. The focus is on research which better informs the Museums and Galleries sector and which will impact on policy, practice and theory. Jocelyn worked very closely with the founding Director Professor Eilean Hooper Greenhill, the influential academic who had written so widely on learning in museums. She was a member of the research team for the Learning Impact Research Project (LIRP) which developed the Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs) a conceptual tool now extensively used in the UK to report on and describe learning impact in Museums, proving a common language to understand museum learning. She has used the GLOs to develop research questions, design research tools and analyse and interpret research findings in a number of studies including Inspiration, Identity, learning: The Value of Museums one of four major studies of learning impact between 2003-2007. Another major stand of her research is disability representation, she is currently Co Directing, with Dr Richard Sandell Rethinking Disability Representation is a large scale, experimental action research project has developed new approaches to the interpretation of disability and the representation of disabled people’s lives. Jocelyn was appointed Director of RCMG in 2006.