Liora Bresler

For this second episode of the MASE podcast, it is a great pleasure to host Liora Bresler. Liora is professor Emerita at the College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as the College of Fine and Applied Art. Liora has held professorships at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, and Lund University.Her areas of interest are qualitative research methodologies (including case-study, narrative and aesthetic-based inquiry); intellectual educational entrepreneurship in academia; and arts education curricula in formal and informal settings. Her current work focuses on qualitative research as aesthetic experience integrating mind, body, and spirit.Liora has published over 150 papers and book chapters and has edited 17 special issues in such journals as Research Studies in Music Education, Educational Theory, Council of Research in Music Education, Visual Art Research, Visual Inquiry, and Arts Education Policy Review where she was the editor for international issues. She has authored and edited books on the arts in education, including Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds (Kluwer, 2004); the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007, Springer), the co-edited International research in education: Experience, theory and practice (2002, Peter Lang), the International Handbook of Creative Learning (Routledge, 2011); and The International Handbook of the Arts in Education (Routledge, 2015).intro musicThings Ain't What They Used to BeArtists: Nicolas Gold · Ross Purves · Evangelos Himonides℗ SonustechReleased on: 2020-11-23Lyricist, Composer: Mercer Ellington and Ted Personsoutro musicFrancis Poulenc, Improvisation n. 15 in C minor - Hommage à Edith Piaf (1959)Artist: Cynthia Stephens-Himonides