PhD candidates
At the Radboud Teachers Academy, PhD candidates conduct research on the connection between pre-university education (VWO) and the university. The projects are all part of the Radboud Teachers Academy's research program ‘Cultivating creativity in education’.
More urgently than before, creativity is considered one of the most important qualities for students to develop. Developments in our society and the world are calling for educational approaches in which students not only acquire knowledge and skills, but also learn to creatively apply these to discover, devise, and realize new possibilities.
An educational system directed at the cultivation of students creativity is likely to equip them better for the dynamics of modern society. We therefore investigate students’ learning from different perspectives and periods, especially in the transition between pre-university education and university.
Due to the multidisciplinary and educational nature of the research projects, PhD’s collaborate with various faculties at Radboud University, with secondary schools and with other institutes for higher education. The PhD students are all affiliated with the national research school (ICO).
Internal PhD's
Lieke Jager, MSc
How to improve teachers’ skills in adaptive teaching in pre-university education
This project studies how teacher in secondary education come to their adaptive instructional practices. Two perspectives regarding teacher’s differentiation practices will be used in this project.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Prof. Toon Cillessen (FSW), Prof. Eddie Denessen (FSW)
Julia van Leeuwen, MSc
The innovative professional potential of beginning teachers: an ecological resources perspective
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Dr. Harmen Schaap
External PhD's
- Roy Dielemans: Linguistic reasoning in grammar education.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter-Arno Coppen - Jacqueline Nijenhuis-Voogt: Theoretical informatica in context.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Prof. Erik Barendsen (FNWI) - Maeve O’Brien Braun: Identity development in the careers of art educators
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Dr Edwin van Meerkerk (FdL), Dr. Ida Oosterheert - Manon Reiber: Opening a window into the future of reading: A multiple case study of teaching EFL higher-order reading comprehension with the use of technology-enhanced reading.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer; Prof. Ans van Kemenade (FdL), Dr. Marijke Kral (HAN) - Kirsten de Ries: iXpeditie Maatwerk: personalized learning and the role of IT.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Dr. Marijke Kral (HAN), Dr. Anne-Marieke van Loon (HAN), Dr. Harmen Schaap - Edith Roefs: Presence in education: its' perceptibility and creation and its' meaning according to teachers, students and teacher educators.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Dr. Yvonne Leeman (Hogeschool Windesheim), Dr. Ida Oosterheert - Astrid Wijnands: Working on language awareness. Reflective thinking by using linguistic resources in the classroom.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter-Arno Coppen - Charlot Cassar: Teachers addressing controversial issues in the classroom.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Dr. Ida Oosterheert
Recently graduated PhD's
2022
Chris Kooloos, MSc
Variatio delectat: Exploring ways in which teachers can orchestrate classroom discourse about variation in solution methods
In this project we collaborate with teachers in a Teacher Design Team to investigate ways to orchestrate classroom discourse about variation in solution methods.
Supervisors: Prof. Gert Heckman (FNWI), Prof. Rainer Kaenders (Univ. Bonn)
2020
Ellen van den Broek, MA
A Language Awareness approach to Dutch upper secondary foreign language education
This project focusses on a language awareness approach in the context of foreign language education. It will investigate how this approach contributes to the development of teachers’ and students’ language awareness and teachers’ classroom practice.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Prof. Ans van Kemenade (FdL), Dr. Sharon Unsworth (FdL), Dr. Helma Oolbekkink
2019
Dr. Petrie van der Zanden
Students’ adaptation to university as a developmental process
In this study the role the secondary school plays in preparing students for university is investigated.
Supervisors: Prof. Paulien Meijer, Prof. Toon Cillessen (FSW), Prof. Eddie Denessen (FSW)