Koichi Kasahara is currently an Associate Professor of Art Education at Tokyo Gakugei University. He has published articles in international publications and co-edited the book A/r/tography: A Methodology of Living Inquiry as Artist/Researcher/Teacher (in Japanese, Book Way, 2019). He is the current World Councilor of the International Society of Education Through Art (InSEA). Kasahara has extensive experience as a museum curator and lecturer of Art Education at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and Fukouka University of Education.

Akihisa Komuro is a Lecturer, Ibaraki Christian University. He graduated from the Graduate School of Education at Tokyo Gakugei University. He formerly worked as a specialized art education teacher at public elementary schools, Chubu Gakuin College and Tokyo Kasei University. Akihisa specializes in practical and qualitative research on children’s creative activities.

After working at a public art museum and serving as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (dispatched to East Timor), Saki Yakabe has been involved with a Japanese NGO in Cambodia since 2014. She has served as a project manager for arts education support initiatives, local representative, and board member (current position). Returning to Japan in 2022, she is now enrolled in the Master’s Program at the Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University. Her research focuses on social transformation through arts-based initiatives by NGOs in the field of international development.

Naoko Kojima is a doctoral candidate specialising in art education at the Graduate School of Teacher Education, Tokyo Gakugei University. She is a lecturer at Tokoha University Junior College and is passionate about sculpture-making.

Rita L. Irwin (Ed.D.) is a Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies and former Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Head, Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Rita has been an educational leader for a number of provincial, national and international organizations including being President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Society for Education through Art, International Society for Education through Art and Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education.

Tin Pham Nguyen's research interests include the sociology of education, diversity, careers, employability, digital literacies, and technologies within education. He is a researcher at Tokyo Gakugei University and a Learning Designer at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. He has co-authored papers published in the British Journal of Education Studies, Research Papers in Education, the Australian Educational Researcher, and the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association.

Gkoliomyti Ph.D is a Lecturer in Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University and an architect-engineer (NTUA 2018) with a Ph.D from Tokyo Institute of Technology (2019–2024) as a MEXT Scholar. Her upcoming book explores how Japanese architects engage with the built environment through fieldwork practices like observation and drawing. Her research promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and challenges rigid disciplinary boundaries. She also leads initiatives like Interlab Japan and DocTalks, supporting underrepresented communities and academic exchange.

Mako Fukuda is a doctoral candidate at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, specializing in art education, elementary arts and crafts instruction, and expressive arts in early childhood care. She completed a graduate program at Tokyo Gakugei University Professional School of Teacher Education and taught as an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. She has also held a part-time teaching position at Tokyo Gakugei University’s affiliated schools and is a certified International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP) educator.