Annette Scheersoi is a Professor in Biology Education at the University of Bonn,
Germany. Her doctorate was on museum’s exhibition concepts and the use of different
media for communicating biological knowledge. Since 2005 she is a biology teachertrainer
and researcher, first at Frankfurt University, then at the University of Cologne
and now at Bonn’s university. Her research on biology learning focuses on interest
development in out-of-school learning environments. Annette also develops learning
materials for schools as well as for museums, zoos and botanic gardens.
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe is a Reader in Science Education at UCL Institute of
Education, University College London. She holds a bachelors degree from
Westfield College, University of London in Zoology and trained as a secondary
biology teacher at the university’s Institute of Education. After teaching in
grammar schools for a few years she had children and, wanting to find out more
about how young children learnt science, particularly biology, she entered
primary school teaching and is now interested in pre school learning, as well as
animals as exhibits. She set up and ran a new Primary Science and Design
Technology advisory team for London Borough of Richmond and then became
Head of Education at the Zoological Society of London. She has worked at the
BBC and in a cultural museum. Her doctorate was from King’s College,
London ’Talking about animals: conversations of children in zoos, a museum and
a farm”. She has published widely.