Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas
As a researcher, Rachel is interested in exploring connections between social justice, arts-based research methods, and more-than-human empathy within educational context.
Rachel’s research examines how artistic practices, physical materials, and nonhumans co-conjure or evoke empathy, in critically challenging current human-centered ideas of empathy. She has published articles in art education connected with ideas of artistic practices and empathy, empathy performativity, temporality in empathy and art, as well as art education in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Rachel earned her BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount in California. Later she received her M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Missouri. Before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki in the faculty of Educational Sciences, Rachel worked in the U.S. as a K-12 public-school art teacher and museum educator. Currently, Rachel is a postdoctoral researcher for the project Children of the Anthropocene-Atmospheres.
Keywords: art education, empathy, sustainability, environments, technology
AMMATTI / POSITIO
Postdoctoral researcher
TAUSTAORGANISAATIO
University of Helsinki
KOULUTUS
PhD
ROOLI SIRENESSÄ
Jäsen