Anna Maria Loffredo Editor

Anna Maria Loffredo (Dr. phil.), born in 1978, works as a changemaker in arts & education. The former high school teacher for art and social studies did her doctorate at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M. and she was a professor for art education at Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria). In 2020, she was a fellow in the excellence of teaching program by the Toepfer Foundation (Germany). Her research focuses on a wide view on art and creative education, curriculum development and the future of interdisciplinary learning. Rainer Wenrich (Dr. phil.), born in 1964, is a professor of art education and art didactics, and director of the Center for Teacher Education at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He studied painting and art education at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München as well as art history, art education and psychology with doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; he also passed the 1st and 2nd state exams for teaching at grammar schools. His research focus lies in art education and art didactics, design and costume history as well as fashion theory. Charlotte Axelsson, born in 1982, is head of E-Learning in the dossier »Learning & Teaching« at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and co-project leader at »LeLa LernLabor Hochschuldidaktik für Digital Skills«. Her research focuses on digital learning and teaching cultures, and tender digitality. Wanja Kröger, born in 1971, works as developer of teaching and learning at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Switzerland). As head of teaching and learning affairs he combines direct experience from teaching with future concepts of teaching & learning. In 2020, he was a fellow in the excellence of teaching program by the Toepfer Foundation (Germany). Also he was engaged in teaching voice and speech for theatre and several other contexts since 1998 at Universität Hildesheim (Germany), Hochschule Luzern - Musik and at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Switzerland). He is a border crosser between research and teaching at the Research Institute of Performing Arts and Film at ZHdK and member of IPPT (International Research Platform for Performance Training).