Position：Curriculum developer

Short CV：Trained as chemist and as a teacher at University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (1977). I have a PhD in Educational Science at the University of Twente (2001).

Employed as a school teacher in science in the Netherlands (1978-1980), as a chemistry and physics teacher in Zambia (1980-1982), as a chemistry lecturer and teacher educator at the University of Swaziland (1983 – 1991). From 1992 – 1997 I worked at the ministry of education in Namibia immediately after independence working on a new secondary education curriculum, and on setting up a nation-wide infrastructure for in-service education. From 1997-1998 I was a teacher educator and chemistry lecturer at the University of Botswana.

Since 1999 I am based in the Netherlands and work at VU University in Amsterdam and SLO. At VU I have taught chemistry to international students and have coordinated and contributed to projects in the international domain, in Ghana, Tanzania, Yemen, and as a curriculum and teacher education specialist, and supervised Masters and PhD students in Educational Science. I have been project leader of two World Bank commissioned studies on science, mathematics and ICT education in sub-Saharan Africa and a curriculum study on the quality and relevance of curriculum, examinations and assessment in secondary education, including TVET, also in sub-Saharan Africa and contributed to World Bank project designs in Nigeria and Uganda.