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Bresler has focused inter-disciplinary work on visual arts, music, dance and drama curricula in K schools....
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Professor Liora Bresler brings an artist's sensibility to education
Liora Bresler had earned two bachelor’s and one master’s degree, all from Tel-Aviv University, when she came to the United States in the mids with her husband, who was working on his doctorate in engineering.
While at Stanford, where she would earn another master’s and a PhD, she found herself studying under the renowned Elliot Eisner.
Eisner was a champion of arts education, something near and dear to Bresler’s own heart—which she found quaking when he sent her to a math class to do a qualitative case study.
“I knew nothing about education,” recalls Bresler, whose degrees were in philosophy, music performance (she was a concert pianist), and musicology.
Liora Bresler is a Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
“Sitting in that class, I didn’t know what pedagogy was. I didn’t know what to write. There were four other people with me and they were writing a lot.”
Then it came to her: she was a musician, a music critic. She could look at the class