Dr. Helene Illeris is PhD and Professor of Art Education at the University of Agder. Her research interests comprise contemporary art in education, aesthetic learning processes, and sustainability art education. Helene teaches and supervises interdisciplinary MA- and PhD courses in fine arts and arts education. Together with Professor Tony Valberg, she leads the research group Arts and Social relations. She has published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and books in English, Danish, Swedish, and Italian. Her latest publications in English are chapters in the anthologies Pedagogy of the Anthropocene (Paulsen et al., 2022) and Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts (Fredriksen & Groth, 2022).

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