Research Projects

The Radboud Teachers Academy is strongly committed to systematically expand and share knowledge of ways in which creativity can be cultivated in secondary education. The research program is directed at this goal and does so along three perspectives:

The cultivation of students’ creativity within and across disciplines
Teacher learning and identity formation
Schools as learning organizations

Below you find an overview of some of the research projects that reseachers of the Radboud Teachers Academy participate in. Or go directly to the overview of the projects of our PhD candidates.

1. The cultivation of students' creativity within and across disciplines

Leading investigators

Prof. dr. Peter-Arno Prof. dr. Paulien Meijer
Coppen

Research projects

Ellen van den Broek, MA
A Language Awareness approach to Dutch upper- secondary foreign language education (PhD project)
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.

Chris Kooloos, MSc
Variatio delectat: Exploring ways in which teachers can orchestrate classroom discourse about variation in solution methods (PhD project)
In this project we collaborate with teachers in a Teacher Design Team to investigate ways to orchestrate classroom discourse about variation in solution methods.

2. Teacher learning and identity formation

Leading investigators

Dr. Ida Oosterheert Prof. dr. Paulien Meijer

Research projects

Lieke Jager, MSc
Adaptivity of teachers’ differential instructional practice
in Dutch secondary education (PhD project)
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.