Marike Hoekstra

(*1966) is an artist-teacher-researcher. She holds MAs in Russian Literature and Art Education. She published on the artist teacher (2009, 2010) and on Altermodern Art Education (2012). She works as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Art in Education at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. 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.