Marja Rastas works as a Lecturer of Art education in Aalto University, Department of Art. Her major academic interests include transformative, arts-based pedagogical practices, embodied knowledge building strategies and issues of visual arts curriculum in the context of contemporary art. Her background as art educator is in non-formal adult education. She has strong networks in Finnish field of art education and has had several positions of trust in the national field of teacher education and curriculum development inititations.