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Jari Karttunen

Jari Karttunen is a Special Education Teacher who has worked in dance art and dance education since late teens. He has for example worked with Common Ground Dance Theatre in London, UK in productions with differently abled dancers and community dance.

He started working in vocational educations of dance in Finland in 2000s and involved in building the Vocational qualification in dance in special education. Today he is works as a Senior Lecturer and Project Manager in Jamk University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland, implementing different in-service trainings for vocational special education teachers, training dance teachers and music pedagogues, realizing equity projects and multidisciplinary networking development and working as a guest lecturer internationally.