Education

  • 1992 PhD Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands; Promoters: Prof. dr. W.J. Nijhof; Prof. dr. Tj. Plomp
  • 1982 Masters in Educational Sciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands; Advisors: Dr. H. Franssen; Dr. C. van Vilsteren
  • 1974 State Teachers College, Meppel, Netherlands
  • 1971 State HBS-B (pre-university secondary education), Meppel, Netherlands

Positions

  • 2000-present Full-time Professor and Head of the chair group of Education and Competence Studies, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
  • 2004-2005 Seconded National Expert at Cedefop, Area A (Research), Thessaloniki, Greece (01-07- 2004 until 01-08-2005)
  • 1998-2000 0,5 Professor and Head of the chair group of Agricultural Education, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
    0,5 Associate Professor Department of Educational Organisation and Management, Faculty of Educational Science and
    Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  • 1997-1998 Associate Professor, Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  • 1993 Visiting Professor, University of Syracuse, New York, USA
  • 1984-1997 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  • 1982-1984 Policy expert at the Netherlands Organisation for Teacher Training in Vocational and Technical Education, Ede, the Netherlands
  • 1982-1984 Teacher in research methodology and statistics at the College for Health Care, Leusden, the Netherlands
  • 1981-1982 Teacher trainer at the Teachers College, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • 1980-1982 Curriculum developer and teacher trainer at the Teachers College in Nursing, Leusden, Netherlands
  • 1974-1979 Elementary school teacher at and vice-director of elementary school De Werkhof at Werkhoven, Netherlands

Supervised PhD students

  • Dr Renate Wesselink – Competence-based vocational education
  • Dr Thomas Lans – Competence development of entrepreneurs in horticulture
  • Dr Elise du Chatenier – Competence profiles of open innovation professionals
  • Dr Mostafa Karbasioun – Needs assessment and competency profiles for agricultural instructors in the context of agricultural development in Iran (2007)
  • Dr Hossein Mahdizadeh – Knowledge construction and participation of students in computer-supported networked learning in higher education (2007)
  • Dr Doris Kakuru – HIV/AIDS, rural livelyhoods and gender disparaties in universal primary education in Uganda (graduated in 2006)
  • Dr Yvonne de Vries – Onderwijsconcepten en professionele ontwikkeling van leraren vanuit praktijktheoretisch perspectief (graduated in 2004)
  • Dr Else Veldhuis-Diermanse – Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Dr Saskia Tjepkema – Learning in teams

(Co) Supervision of current PhD projects

  • Ir. Elsbeth Spelt – Integrative teaching and learning in food safety
  • Omid Noroozi, MSc – Argumentative CSCL in Wageningen domains
  • Drs. Anne Khaled – Competence-based work-based learning in the green sector
  • Drs. Lidwien Sturing – Validation of a matrix for the development of competence-based vocational training in agriculture
  • Vitaliy Popov, MSc – Intercultural competence development and CSCL
  • Saeid Karimi, MSc – Developing entrepreneurship competence in higher education
  • Misbah Zainun, MSc – Teacher-Student Interaction in Competence-Based Vocational Education: Evidence from Indonesia
  • Solomon Getachew, MSc – Management of Technical-Vocational Education in Ethiopia
  • George Wilson Kasule, MSc – Transformation competence of teachers in higher education in Uganda
  • Eghe Osagie, MSc – HRD and sustainable development in organisations
  • Drs. Peter Lindhoud – Indigenous knowledge and teacher education
  • Drs. Ester Alaké-Tuenter – Teacher competence in elementary science and technology education
  • Drs. Petra Cremers – Learning and work
  • Drs. Niek van Benthum – Professional Development of Teachers and Human Resource Management
  • Ir. Carla Oonk – Competence for Regional learning
  • Wybe van Halsema, MSc – Competence-based higher education: a commodity?

Awards

  • 2011 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Vocational Education and Training Research Network of the European Educational Research Association
  • 2008 Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Workplace Learning
  • 2007 Outstanding Service Award from the Asia-Pacific Educators Association for Agriculture and Environment
  • 2005 Honorary Scientist Rural Development Agency, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 1999 Training Award – Dutch Association of Training Professionals