Drama Boreale - Åbo Akademi

Hannu Heikkinen, Ed.D, Lecturer of Arts in Education is working at the University of
Oulu. He is the head of aTeacher Education program, which is focused on Arts in
Education. He has published books, articles, papers and has given workshops at national
and international conferences. He is a member of the International Advisory Board at the
Research in Drama Education Journal (UK).
Tor-Helge Allern is Associate professor in drama at the Nesna University College,
Norway. He has a Ph.D (Dr. Art) in drama from The Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU) (2003). Allern is currently involved in a research project in
primary school financed by the Norwegian Research Council, where he examines the
effects of different dramaturgies in teaching and learning.
Wendy Lathrop Meyer is Assistant Professor in Drama and Theatre at Hedmark
University College Department of Art and Information Science in Hamar, Norway. She
is an academic/ professional project leader for the Norad programme in Arts and Cultural
Education - “Community based Arts”- regaining and modernizing Cultural heritage
Educating and professionalizing the Community Artist.
Anna-Lena Østern is currently engaged in a research project called Arts literacy as
worldmaking in education. The Nordic researcher group intends to describe a third way
for education, where emerging meaning, relational aesthetics, multimodal literacy and
focus on culturally sustainable development is articulated. She is a visiting professor at
The Faculty of Education at Åbo Academi University and professor of arts education at
the university of Trondheim NTNU.
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