Keuchel, Susanne
Professorin und Direktorin der Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung des Bundes und des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in Remscheid, Projekt DiKuJu: Postdigitale kulturelle Jugendwelten – Entwicklung neuer Methodeninstrumente zur Weiterentwicklung der Forschung zur Kulturellen Bildung in der digitalen und postdigitalen Welt.
Garzón Ortiz, Leonardo
Leonardo Garzón Ortiz, Graduate in Musical Pedagogy and Magister in Education from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional of Colombia. He plays bandola, a traditional instrument of the Andean region, participating in several of the most important groups and the main national festivals, as performer, arranger and conductor. He has worked as a teacher and researcher at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, where he also was the Director of the Music Program. Currently (since 2014), he is the General Coordinator of Centros Locales de Artes para la Niñez y la Juventud CLAN, the main arts education program of Alcaldía de Bogotá.
Schonmann, Shifra
Shifra Schonmann is Professor Emerita, holder of the Bar-Netzer Chair of Education, Society and Theatre for Young People at the University of Haifa, Israel. The continuing areas of her research are: aesthetics, theatre-drama education, theatre for young people, curriculum, and teacher education. She has published numerous articles as well as books, including: International yearbook for research in arts education, Vol. 3, Th e wisdom of the many – Key issues in arts education (Waxmann). She is an invited speaker in international Conferences, a member of the Editorial Board of several leading journals and a member of INRAE’s steering committee.
Kigozi, Benon
Dr Benon Kigozi is a Senior Staff member at the Department of Performing Arts and Film, Makerere University, having previously served as Head of Music at Africa University in Zimbabwe. He is President of PASMAE, President of USMAE, and Chair for Music In Africa Foundation on Education and Content. He is an elected member of the ISME Board, member of the National Association for Study and Performance of African American Music (NASPAAM) and member of the Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA). Kigozi serves on editorial boards and publishes extensively. His current research is in ICT in music education.
Chen-Hafteck, Lily
Lily Chen-Hafteck, Ph.D., is Professor of Music Education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has numerous publications in early childhood and multicultural music education. She is the founder and director of the Educating the Creative Mind project (National Endowment for the Arts); and a co-investigator/team-leader of Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing project (SSHRC of Canada).
Bjerstedt, Sven
Sven Bjerstedt, PhD, is Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer in music at Lund University, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Education in the Arts, and a jazz pianist (recent trio album: Peace). His research interests include conceptual intermediality in temporal art forms: Storytelling in jazz improvisation (2014), Musicality in acting (forthcoming).
Achieng’ Andang’o, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Achieng’ Andang’o (PhD) is a lecturer of Music Education at the Department of Music and Dance in the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Kenyatta University, Kenya. She teaches courses in music education and vocal performance. Her research interests include early childhood music education, music and culture, and policy in music education. She is a commissioner with the Early Childhood Commission of the International Society of Music Education (2010-2016). She has presented papers at many Conferences and has published articles in various journals, including the INRAE 2015 yearbook, Israeli Studies in Musicology (2012) and Arts Education Policy Review (2007).
Denmead, Tyler
Tyler Denmead is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Denmead has spent his career facilitating and researching arts and humanities programs for youth, and his current research examines how youth is/are implicated in creative cities. He is the founder of New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized youth arts collective for high school students and artists based in Providence, Rhode Island. His publications can be read in Visual Arts Research, Art Education, Journal of Arts and Communities, International Journal of Education through Art, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts.
Carter, Mindy R.
Mindy R. Carter, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University (Montreal, QC Canada). Her areas of interest include teacher identity, teacher education, drama and theatre education and curriculum theory. Her first book The teacher monologues: Exploring the identities and experiences of artist teachers was published by Sense in 2014. Recently, Mindy received FRQSC funding (2015-2018) for her research integrating Indigenous content into her drama education class with pre-service teachers. She is currently the Vice President and Program Chair of the ARTS special interest group for The Canadian Society for the Study of Education.
Østern, Tone Pernille
Tone Pernille Østern, PhD (Dr. of Arts in dance), is a dance artist and professor in arts education with focus on dance at the Department for Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is head of the Section for Arts, Physical Education and Sports and leader of the Master's degree in Arts Education. Her research focuses on inclusive dance pedagogy, embodied pedagogy, aesthetic approaches to learning, choreographic processes as well as the development of arts-based and artistic research.
Pascoe, Robin
Robin Pascoe is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Drama Education, School of Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He teaches curriculum units on Arts Education in Primary Schools, Teaching Drama in Secondary Schools and Engaging Communities through Drama. His research interests include markers of quality in arts education, drama curriculum and assessment and teaching artists in teacher education. With his daughter Hannah, he is co-author of Drama and Theatre: Key Terms and Concepts 3rd Edition (2014). Robin is the President (2013-2016) of IDEA, the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association, and a former President of Drama Australia.
Huddy, Avril
Avril Huddy is a Lecturer in Dance at Queensland University of Technology. Avril’s diverse dance career comprises performing and producing, establishing and curating independent performance venues, tour management, and teaching. She has taught amateur and professional dance organisations, and across the three tiers of the Australian education system. Avril is a STOTT Pilates instructor and Feldenkrais Practitioner. Her approach to dance pedagogy and curriculum incorporates her extensive theoretical and embodied knowledge with her professional dance experience. Avril received a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Channells, Philip
Philip Channells, (Bach. Dance) is the founder and Creative Director of Dance Integrated Australia. He is fiercely committed to the development of thriving artistic communities that integrate people from diverse age groups, cultural backgrounds and life experience. Through his work in Australia and abroad he has been dedicated to his vision for dance and advocacy for change, bringing much success, opportunity and innovation in his practice. His major choreographic credits include: Off The Record (2016), PERFECT (im)PERFECTIONS – stories untold (2014) and Next of Kin – no ordinary status family (2010).
Hope, Alice
Alice Hope is a primary school teacher with 4 years’ experience teaching 3-6 year olds in East London inner city schools. She graduated from University College London with a BSc in Anthropology in 2009 and gained a distinction for her MA in Art and Design Education at the UCL Institute of Education in 2013. This symposium will draw upon the research she carried out during her MA which looks at how 3-6 years olds use a digital camera as a cognitive tool for exploring and representing their world.
Berggraf Sæbø, Aud
Aud Berggraf Sæbø is Professor Emerita at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research areas are: drama in education and aesthetic and creative teaching and learning processes. Sæbø has published articles, textbooks and research reports, was Congress Director for IDEA 2001 in Norway, had diff erent positions in IDEA (1995-2010) and is now a member of INRAE steering committee.
Greenwood, Janinka
Janinka Greenwood is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury, and Director of the Research Lab for Creativity and Change. She has a long-standing engagement with the uses for arts for learning and with arts-based research, and strong interests in learning communities, cultural diff erence, post-colonialisms and practice-based research methodologies. She is a Co-Convener of the Emergent Researchers Network in EERA (European Educational Research Association). She has various projects with colleagues in Norway, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh as well as in New Zealand, and works with local and international students.
Brenna, Beverley
Beverley Brenna is a Professor of Curriculum Studies at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan where she focuses on literacy, children’s literature, special education, and drama in education. Bev has ten published children’s books and her Series of young adult novels about a teen with autism, beginning with Wild Orchid, has earned many awards including a Printz Honor book award and a shortlisting for the Canadian Governor General’s Award. Bev is currently working on an adaptation of Wild Orchid as a stage play; anyone wishing permission to produce this play may contact her directly.
Clement, Neville
Neville Clement, PhD, is a researcher working in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His current research interests are in values in education, epistemic cognition and the implications of neuroscience for education. Articles he has co-authored have appeared in the Oxford Review of Education, the Cambridge Journal of Education, the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, and Curriculum Inquiry. Also, he has co-edited the International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing (Springer, 2010) and co-authored Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement (Springer, 2011).
Thorkelsdóttir, Rannveig Björk
Rannveig Björk Thorkelsdóttir is in her final year of her PhD study at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway. Her doctoral research focuses on drama teachers’ experience in the context of drama teaching, using the theory of practice architectures as a main frame of understanding. She is an experienced drama teacher educator. She has been involved in curriculum development in creativity and dramatic arts in compulsory education in Iceland. Her areas of research are: drama and theatre education, drama teacher development and drama curriculum. Rannveig has published books and articles on teaching and learning in drama.
Restrepo, Gloria P. Zapata
Gloria P. Zapata Restrepo is a music educator with a master in Psychopedagogy from Antioquia University (Medellin-Colombia) and a PhD in Music Psychology and Education from Roehampton University (U.K.). Currently she works as a Research Coordinator of the School of Music at Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas in Bogotá. She is the Chair of the Colombian Society of Researchers in Music Psychology and Education – PSICMUSE.
Stevens, Kym
Kym Stevens is a lecturer in Dance Education at Queensland University of Technology and has worked as a dance teacher artist in schools across Australia, and continues to develop arts strategies in schools. She has previously been employed as a dance syllabus writer and as a project offi cer for Ausdance QLD. Kym has worked as a contemporary, ballet and jazz dance teacher in private studios in Australia and the United States and has developed many community based youth dance projects. Her research areas include Dance curriculum implementation, Arts teacher training pedagogies and the development of creative skills for the 21st Century.
Berggraf Sæbø, Aud
Aud Berggraf Sæbø is Professor Emerita at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research areas are: drama in education and aesthetic and creative teaching and learning processes. Sæbø has published articles, textbooks and research reports, was Congress Director for IDEA 2001 in Norway, had diff erent positions in IDEA (1995-2010) and is now a member of INRAE steering committee.
Ragnarsdóttir, Ása Helga
Ása Helga Ragnarsdóttir is an assistant lecturer in drama and theatre education at the University of Iceland, School of Education and a drama teacher at Iceland Academy of the Arts. She holds the degree Master of Arts in Drama and Theatre Education from the University of Warwick in England, 2002. Ása has been involved in curriculum development in Iceland, and introducing drama in schools and higher education. She is an author of several textbooks on drama in education and has been a researcher for years. She is a professional actress and was a host at the children’s program in the Icelandic television for several years.
Lum, Chee-Hoo
Chee-Hoo Lum is associate professor of music education with the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also the Head of the UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), part of a region-wide network of Observatories stemming from the UNESCO Asia-Pacifi c Action Plan. Chee-Hoo’s research interests include issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education, children’s musical cultures, creativity and improvisation, and elementary music methods.
Knudsen, Kristian N.
Kristian N. Knudsen is a PhD Student in Drama and theater in education. The aim of his project is to investigate how the performative and digital society can stimulate to renewal in drama and theatre in education. In his research he investigates the educational possibilities social media bring to drama pedagogical practice. The project will also be a relevant contribution to today’s school debate which circles around efficiency and Productivity thinking.
Devine, Andy
Andy Devine is a practising artist and educator. He teaches at the University of Newcastle (UoN), Fine Art Department. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours 1st Class), Faculty Medal, University Medal, Masters Philosophy in Fine Art and approved PhD proposal with UoN. Devine also mentors exceptional high school students for the Fine Arts High Achievers Program.
Østern, Anna-Lena
Anna-Lena Østern is Professor in arts education at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Programme for Teacher Education. She is since 2010 academic leader of a national research school ( NAFOL) for teacher education in Norway. Her research interests are aesthetic approaches to learning, multimodality, pedagogical and artistic supervision, and drama and theatre education.
Snook, Barbara
Dr Barbara Snook is a Professional Teaching Fellow and Professional Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. She is currently engaged in researching the use of an arts-rich pedagogy in primary school classrooms. Barbara was the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance at the University of Otago in 2008. She is a successful author of dance text-books used widely in Australia and New Zealand and was the recipient of an Osmotherly Award for services toward the development of Dance Education in Queensland Australia in 2007. Her early career was as a High School teacher of drama and dance in Brisbane High Schools.
Lu, Shanhwa
Shanhwa Lu is a research assistant with the UNESCO-NIE (National Institute of Education) CARE (Centre for Arts Research in Education), Singapore. Shanhwa graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and International Development Studies. She has a great passion for the arts, and enjoys being an advocate for the Singapore arts scene. She is interested in a wide range of topics, including marginalized communities, immigrant populations, gender and racial discourse, notions of identity, and of course the arts.
Ulvund, Marit
Marit Ulvund is Associate Professor in Theatre, educated at NTNU in Norway, University of Minnesota, USA, and Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her PhD is a practice-led study in Echo Theatre, a method she has developed. The study found that there is potential for Echo Theatre to support the development of performative and narrative competencies, and the effectiveness of the method being dependent on the teacher’s theatre knowledge, skills and didactic attitude towards the students. Marit works as the director of Seanse Art Center, Norway, a center supporting quality of arts Production for and with children, youth and others.
Pribyl, Jill
Jill Pribyl, MA, CMA, is an Arts Educator, dancer, and choreographer who has lived and worked in Uganda for the past 12 years. In 2002, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research in the dance section of Makerere University. In 2005, Jill relocated to Kampala where she has continued to teach at Makerere University. Her research interests lie in how Ugandan cultural dances are transmitted, appropriated and preserved through teaching practices and how intercultural exchange programs are negotiated.
O’Toole, John
John O’Toole was Foundation Chair of Arts Education at the University of Melbourne and before that Professor of Drama and Applied Theatre at Griffith University, Queensland. From 2010-2012 he was Lead Writer for the Arts in the Australian Curriculum. He was a founder-member of IDEA, and earlier of Drama Australia and Drama Queensland. IDEA Director of Publications from 1996-2004, he co-convened the 2nd IDEA World Congress in 1995. In 2001 he was awarded the American Alliance for Th eatre and Education Lifetime Research Award. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to drama education.
Chen, Wei-Ren
Dr. Wei-Ren Chen, PhD, is an assistant professor of the Department of Special Education at National Chiayi University in Taiwan. He received his doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on curricular differentiation and teacher professional development in the field of gifted education. With an interest in the arts, he loves to explore aesthetic qualities in teaching, learning, and life.
O’Farrell, Larry
Larry O’Farrell is Professor emeritus and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University, Canada, Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Network for Arts and Learning and Chair, Steering Committee, International Network for Research in Arts Education, and served as President of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association. Larry is Honorary Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and recipient of the Campton Bell Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
Buck, Ralph
Associate Professor Ralph Buck is an award winning teacher and academic leader. Ralph’s research has been featured at the UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education. He is on the International Editorial Boards of Research in Dance Education (RIDE) and Journal of Dance Education (JODE). He has collaborated with UNESCO in raising the profile in Arts Education around the world. He initiated, advocated for and planned UNESCO’s International Arts Education Week. He is on the Executive Council of the World Alliance for Arts Education. Ralph’s research and publications focus upon dance teaching and learning, and community dance.
Grushka, Kathryn
Dr Kathryn Grushka is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle’s School of Education, Visual Arts and Design. Kathryn is known especially for her research work in curriculum, the performative role of artmaking, imaginative becoming, refl ective practice, art/science knowing, adaptive knowledge and transformative learning. Kathryn draws significantly on research methods evolving from arts inquiry, visual methods and narrative methodologies. She sits on international and national editorial teams for art and teacher education journals. She has numerous awards, including the NSW Institute for Educational research, Doctoral Award. In 2005 she received the University of Newcastle’s prestigious University awards for Teaching Quality and Student Learning.
Lawry, Miranda
Dr Miranda Lawry is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts. Dr Lawry is an artist who works in practice led research. Her research expertise combines photomedia practice with identity and place. Through her research Dr Lawry seeks to use the photographic image as a primary visualising agent to generate and identify ‘authentic experience’ of architecture and place in fragile and transient human lives and to engage in debates across the cultural industries around healing and healthy design. Miranda has also been awarded a FEDUA Research Excellence Award.
Overland, Corin
Corin Overland is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. He received his PhD in music education from Temple University and holds multiple teaching licensures in choral, instrumental, and general music education. His peer-reviewed research appears in the Journal of Research in Historical Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, College Music Symposium, and the Music Educators Journal. His current research interests include the economics of arts education, evaluation Measures for arts teachers, integrated arts instruction, and the effects of musical training on motor behavior.
