Teacher as Activist/Artist
For this PhD I will build on the outcomes of my previous research Dealing with the real stuff. Design research into interdisciplinary citizenship education through the integration of civic and arts education(Roos, 2020) and focus on developing a pedagogical approach for student teachers to help learners to engage in social change, based on the practices of contemporary activists (for a more interdisciplinary focus, outside the realm of mere art) and activist artists. To do so, in this PhD I will further explore the methods of activists and activist artists and the (artistic) strategies they use to address social issues, through ethnographic fieldwork within activist and activist art practices (e.g. artists, hackers, designers) and literature study.
The outcomes of this fieldwork will be translated in a model for interdisciplinary arts and citizenship education. This model will guide the design of an interdisciplinary teacher training program for student teachers in both arts and citizenship education (Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences). The training program will be evaluated and based on the findings a definite model for the interdisciplinary arts and citizenship education program will be established. During the training student teachers will design a series of interdisciplinary lessons, which they will implement and execute in the educational practice. The educational design, their subject matter and pedagogy are based on the model that I will develop in the course of my research project.
Biography
Nathalie Roos obtained her teaching qualification Fine Art in Education from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). She subsequently studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and she completed the interdisciplinary Master of Education in Arts at the AHK. Nathalie worked at a studio for homeless artists and as Education project team member at the platform for contemporary art BAK basis voor actuele kunst. During her study at the Master of Education in Arts, she conducted research into the value of cultural anthropology to modern-day art education. Since 2016, Nathalie has been working as a teacher in empirical research at the Master of Education in Arts. In addition, she sets up art educational projects with her foundation EMIC, within which various target groups (for example young people and the homeless) collaborate with each other around topical social issues and contemporary art.
Contact: nathalie.roos@ahk.nl
Publications, presentations and workshops
Publicaties
Roos, N., & Wakjira, E. (Eds.). (2025). Dealing with the real stuff. Amsterdam: Framer Framed.
Roos, N. (2025). To Throw Oneself Into the Fray: A Qualitative Evaluation Study Into the Educational Potential of Contemporary Artistic Activism for Practices of Art and Citizenship Education.International Journal of Art & Design Education, 44(3), 512-529.
Roos, N. (2022). Elke grap is een kleine revolutie, Kunstzone, 22(3),20-23.
Bremmer, M., Heijnen, E., Hotze, A., Van Dartel, M., Roos, N., Arets, D., Stubbe, J., Van Keulen, H., Noordegraaf-Eelens, L., & Van der Sande, R. (2021). ArtsSciences-onderwijs: een onderzoeksagenda. Amsterdam: Lectorenplatform onderwijs op het snijvlak van kunst, wetenschap en technologie.
Bremmer, M., Heijnen, E., Hotze, A., Pijls, M., Beamer, E., & Roos, N. (2021). ArtsSciences Design-a-thon: solving complex problems in interdisciplinary teams. European Journal of STEM Education, 6(1), 11
Roos, N. (2020). Dealing with the real stuff. Amsterdam. NL: Lectoraat Kunsteducatie, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten.
Roos, N. (2020). Dealing with the real stuff. Activistische kunst in het voortgezet onderwijs. Kunstzone, 19(1), 8-11.
Hotze, A., Bremmer, M., Heijnen, E., Pijls, M., Beamer, E., & Roos, N. (2019). ArtsSciences designathon. Pressure cooker voor aankomende leraren die vanuit verschillende disciplines samenwerken aan een vakoverstijgende ontwerptaak. Velon, 40(3), 196-206.
Heijnen, E., Bremmer, M., Hotze, A., Van Dartel, M., Pijls, M., Keulen, H., Rijken, D., & Roos, N. (2019). ArtsSciences-onderwijs: een onderzoeksagenda. Amsterdam: Lectorenplatform onderwijs op het snijvlak van kunst, wetenschap en technologie.
Bremmer, M., Heijnen, E., Hotze, A., Roos, N. & Pijls, M. (2019). Designathon: Een interdisciplinaire pressure cooker. Kunstzone, 18(4), pp. 14-15
Presentaties en workshops
Symposium: Dealing with the Real Stuff. Kunst, Activisme, Burgerschap in het Onderwijs. (Amsterdam, 2025)
Presentatie To Throw Oneself into the Fray, Day of the Teacher Researcher, AHK (Amsterdam, 2024)
Keynote Dealing with the real stuff, Netwerkbijeenkomst VO Plein C (Zaandam, 2024)
Presentatie Dealing with the real stuff, Burgerschapsfestival MBO (Amsterdam, 2023)
Kunst, activisme en burgerschap, discussiegroep tijdens opening CASE (Amsterdam, 2022).
'Arts, activism, citizenship and education', gastcollege bachelorstudenten Erasmus Universiteit (Rotterdam, 2022)
Presentatie Dealing with the real stuff, MBO Raad (Apeldoorn, 2021)
Leernetwerk Dealing with the real stuff, Stichting Cultuurprofielscholen (2021)
Nascholing Dealing with the real stuff, Breitner Academie (Amsterdam, 2021)
Dealing with the real stuff, workshop docentopleiding beeldende kunst en vormgeving (Maastricht, 2021)
'Dealing with the real stuff' over kunst, activisme, kunst- en burgerschapsonderwijs, presentatie symposium kunst als burgerschapsonderwijs, LKCA en Lectoraat KE (online, 2021)
'Dealing with the real stuff' over kunst, activisme, kunst- en burgerschapsonderwijs, presentatie Stichting Cultuurprofielscholen (online, 2021)
'Dealing with the real stuff' over kunst, activisme, kunst- en burgerschapsonderwijs, masterclass docentenopleiding beeldende kunst en vormgeving (Maastricht, online, 2021)
‘Dealing with the real stuff’, presentatie Alumnidag MAKE (Amsterdam, 2019)
‘Dealing with the real stuff’, presentatie Alumnidag Breitner Academie (Amsterdam, 2019)
‘Dealing with the real stuff’, presentatie InSea Conferentie (Canada, Vancouver, 2019)
Overig
Free Spaces; kunst, activisme en burgerschap (Breitner Academie en Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 2022) Minor lerarenopleiding
Roos, N. (2021). Podcast Kunst, activisme en burgerschapsonderwijs. Amsterdam. NL: lectoraat Kunsteducatie.