Sofia Jusslin

Sofia Jusslin is Doctoral Candidate in Education, focusing on Swedish and Literature Education, at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Jusslin is a certified primary school teacher and subject teacher in Swedish and Literature Education. Jusslin collaborated with a dance artist and two primary school teachers in her doctoral thesis, where she developed and explored teaching pedagogies that integrated creative dance in fifth-grade literacy education. Her research interests include post-philosophical perspectives on literacy and language education, dance integration and embodied learning in school and teacher education, as well as transdisciplinary approaches to dance focusing especially on combining dance with literacy, literature, and language.