Nathalie Roos
Nathalie Roos is a teacher, researcher, cultural anthropologist, and activist, specialised in artistic activism and activist art pedagogy.
Nathalie Roos obtained her teaching qualifications at the Fine Art and Design teacher training course at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). She subsequently studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and completed the interdisciplinary master of Education in Arts (AHK). Nathalie worked in a studio for homeless artists, as an educational designer at BAK – basis for art and knowledge, and she set up art educational projects with her EMIC foundation, in which various groups (for example young people and homeless people) worked together on current social issues and contemporary art.
Since 2017, Nathalie has been working as a teacher at the Breitner Academy (AHK) and as a researcher at the Research Group Arts Education (AHK). Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the department of Arts and Culture at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. For her PhD she builds on the outcomes of her previous research Dealing with the real stuff. Design research into interdisciplinary citizenship education through the integration of civic and arts education (Roos, 2020) and focuses on developing a pedagogical approach for student teachers’ arts and social sciences, based on the practices of contemporary activist artists. To do so, in her PhD she explores visions, methods, hopes, dreams, and dilemmas of activist artists and the (artistic) strategies they use to address urgent social issues, through ethnographic fieldwork within activist art practices and literature study. The outcomes of this fieldwork will be translated in the design of an interdisciplinary teacher training program for student teachers in both arts and social sciences (in collaboration with the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam, and Framer Framed).
- Kunstzone - Dealing with the real stuff (2020)
