Hanke Drop
Hanke is involved in various projects:
- Transcending the "us-versus-them" divide in the Dutch educational praxis, experienced by Dutch refugee students through creative co-creation
- Inquiring personal and community development in the HU Honours programme
- Ph.D research into creative co-creation, making, teacher artistry as keys of inclusive education
- Interprofessional students' collaboration in education, social work and arts therapy in urban areas
"We are born with a voice and into relationship. If those capacities are encouraged we are able to register within ourselves the feeling of what happens and that's the ground for ethical action."
after Carol Gilligan
For her Ph.D. research, Hanke explored how Dutch teachers can develop their artistry to create an inclusive educational practice that encourages their learners (in Dutch (v)mbo and higher education) to become embodied persons situated in the world. She found that artistic principles, in addition to recognizing the embodiment of learners, spark the joy of improvisation and experimentation and inspire teachers to further develop their teacher artistry. Schools then become spaces where teachers approach their learners as embodied persons who are in the world, rather than as individuals with separate brains, and bodies that are not being addressed.