Emiel Copini

Dr. Emiel Copini is a lecturer (Master Arts Education) and postdoctoral researcher (AeCT) at ArtEZ.

Emiel is involved in the project Art-Based Learning in Palliative Care (RAAK PRO) as research coordinator. He completed the postdoc project ‘Makers in Change’ (2022-2024), aimed at a theoretical and practice-based elaboration of the concept of the ‘artisteducator’, with an arts-based publication ‘Makers in Verandering. Verhalen van artisteducators’.

His dissertation (University of Groningen, 2019) deals with the cultural awareness of young people as a rationale for co-developing cross-curricular art and cultural education in co-creation. In 2020, he conducted research from ArtEZ on how inclusion can be worked on from socially engaged artistic practices from within art education programs. In 2021, from the AeCT professorship, he led the research project on the development and embedding of the Teachers College at Windesheim. His background is the Research Master in Literary and Cultural Studies (RuG) with a focus on film theory. From his experience in research, educational development and film education, he is researching how the integration of film education works, with Netwerk Filmeducatie and the six regional Filmhubs. He is currently working on the new structure of the arts in secondary education, with a particular focus on. At ArtEZ he is currently developing the module ‘Artisteducator in Film’. His affinity lies with collaborative practice-based research, in which working in a learning community simultaneously provides insight and contributes to educational development. He is particularly interested in the possibilities of fiction in education and research.