Prof. E.M. van Meerkerk (Edwin)

Edwin van Meerkerk researches and teaches about arts and cultural education, cultural entrepreneurship, and higher education for sustainability. He is also a professor at ArtEZ University of the Arts. In his research and teaching, he is driven by curiosity about how people give shape to their ideas about the value of art and culture. He does this, among other things, through his long-term research into the cooperation between art teachers and teachers in primary education within the framework of the national programme Quality Cultural Education. He also looks at the impediments and opportunities for arts and cultural education in special needs education, in collaboration with Méér muziek in de klas and professors of cultural education at arts schools.
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PhD candidate supervision:
• Maeve O'Brien Braun, The formation of a teaching identity during the first three years of professional practice as an art teacher in Dutch secondary education.
• Joanne Dijkman, Crossovers between the Professional and the Liberal arts.
• Luud Goossens, Diversity in cultural practice and cultural policy.
• Joy Koopman, Metamodern Reading in the EFL Classroom.
• Olga Potters, Children's creativity in elementary school, focusing on 8-12 year olds and creative tasks.
• Aliisa Råmark, Virtualisation and Multimodal Exploration of Heritage on Nazi Persecution.
• Twan Robben, Creativity development as a didactic tool in historic literature education in senior high school.
• Saranne Schümers, Polarization in poetry class: the development of a dialogical didactics based on student perspectives
• Elsbeth Veldpape, Artistic research in higher education.