biography
Marike Hoekstra is an artist-teacher-researcher. She holds MA’s in Russian Literature and Art Education. Her experience as an independent art educator includes teaching, residencies, project organization, consultancy, lecturing and research. She actively works as an artist in drawing and installation art.
Marike’s research focuses on artist in school projects and innovative art education. She published on the role of the artist teacher in projects organized by Toeval Gezocht and CBK Rotterdam (2009, 2010) and Altermodern Art Education, a research project at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (2012). She works as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Art in Education at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and at Piet Zwart Institute.
Currently Marike studies for the degree of MPhil/PhD at the Faculty of Education & Children’s Services at Chester University. Her PhD research concerns the implications of the artist teacher on democratic pedagogical practice.
Publicaties, presentaties en workshops
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy', presentatie Alumnidag MAKE (Amsterdam, 2019)
- Symposium 'Making a third space' (keynote presentatie), AHK (Amsterdam, 2019)
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy', presentatie InSea conferentie (Canada, Vancouver, 2019)
- Hoekstra, M. (2019). Kunstenaardocenten en democratische pedagogiek. Amsterdam, NL: Lectoraat Kunsteducatie, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de kunsten.
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy', Onderzoekspresentatie: IJADE Conference, (Glasgow School of Art, Engeland, 2019)
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy' Presentatie: ELIA Conferentie, Codarts/Willem de Kooning Academie, (Rotterdam, 2018)
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy' Paperpresentatie: Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies GCS Conference Global Critical Pedagogies, (Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2018)
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy' Presentatie Raad van Advies, (Breitner Academie, 2018)
- 'Artist teachers and democratic pedagogy' Paperpresentatie: NSEAD Artist Teacher Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, (Engeland 2018)