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Associate professor of gender differences in education and research
Associate Professor Gerda Geerdinks work concerns research into gender differences in education and research into educating teachers and teacher educators/education degree courses. This research always involves improving education, teaching methodology and/or professionalisation.
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Gerda Geerdink is involved in educating teachers and professionalising teacher educators. Her research brings together expertise about gender diversity in education, teaching methodology and professionalisation. The principal research projects in which she is involved are aimed at improving the quality of teacher education programmes and improving education by taking gender differences into account. She is affiliated with organisations (advising, assessing) and professional associations for teacher educators in a national and international context.
Educational theory in education
Gerda Geerdink has been working at HAN as a teacher educator for both the College of Education for Primary School Teachers and the College of Education for Secondary School Teachers since 1990. At the former, she worked chiefly on education development, focusing on the key theme of the pedagogical aspect of education in general and teacher education in particular.
Geerdink was awarded her PhD in 2007 for research into gender differences in motives and educational expectations of student teachers (primary school) and the manner in which courses should take gender differences between students into consideration. She has also conducted research into educating teachers in professional development schools. From 2006 to 2010 she combined this work with a position as research policy officer at HAN. Her work as a policy officer chiefly concerned implementing the research function in higher professional education in general and HAN University of Applied Sciences in particular. In 2010 she was appointed a fulltime position as associate professor at HAN’s Research Centre for Quality of Learning. At the international level her work mainly involves partnerships in the field of teacher education.
Geerdink, G., Bergen, T., & Dekkers, H. (2011) Diversity in Primary Teacher Education. Gender differences in Student Factors and Curriculum perception. Teachers & Teaching: Theory & Practice Journal, 17 (5). 575-596.
Practice-based research in teacher education
SCoTENS (Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South)
Gerda Geerdink (website)
More knowledge is needed about diminishing or eliminating gender differences in performance and return.