~liora breslerLiora Bresler is a Professor at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign. Most recently, she has edited the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007, Springer), Knowing bodies, moving minds: Towards embodied teaching and learning (2004, Kluwer), The arts in children's lives: Context, culture, and curriculum (Bresler and Thompson, 2002, Kluwer) and International Research in Education (Bresler and Ardichvili, 2002 by Peter Lang). Her work has been translated to German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew and Chinese.Bresler has won the Distinguished Teaching Life-Long Career Award at the College of Education (2004), and the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Training at the University of Illinois (2005). Most recently she was awarded the Edwin Ziegfeld Award for distinguished international leadership in art education by the United States Society for Education Through Art (2007), and the Lin Wright Special Recognition Award by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Bresler serves as an editor for the book series: Landscapes: Aesthetics, Arts and Education, for Springer. She is the co-founder (with Tom Barone, 1999-2007) and co-editor (with Margaret Latta, 2006-) of the International Journal for Arts and Education. Bresler has written about a 100 papers and chapters in leading journals of arts and education including the Educational Researcher, Studies in Art Education, and Music Education Research. She has been invited to give keynote speeches in six continents, and has given invited talks, seminars and short courses in thirty some universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Australia.
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