Dr. Edna Tan, Hooks Distinguished Professor of STEM Education in UNC Greensboro’s Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, has been named a Co-Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST), together with Dr. Matthew Kloser from the University of Notre Dame and Dr. Dana Vedder-Weiss from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The Kloser, Tan and Vedder-Weiss term will begin in 2025 and run through 2029. Tan is the first Asian scholar to become Co-Editor for JRST in the journal’s 62-year history.
Tan’s research has centered around justice-oriented STEM teaching and learning across contexts. She was a recipient of the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K Award for her work to reframe research on STEM teaching and teacher education and its implications for practice in both classrooms and communities. In 2020, Dr. Tan was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2023, she was elected as a Fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences.
The Journal of Research in Science Teaching, or JRST, is the leading academic journal in the field of science education. It is the official journal of NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research. JRST has an impact factor of 4.6 (2022) and articles were downloaded more than 486,000 times in 2023, an increase of 285% in the past 10 years, outpacing other journals in its area of research.
Building on the excellent work by outgoing Co-Editors Troy Sadler and Felicia Moore Mensah, the Kloser, Tan & Vedder-Weiss team will work to center rigor and justice through increasing the diversity of JRST stakeholders across the editorial team, authors and reach of the journal.
