PhD Defence Lucas Silva Didier
On Monday 16 February 2026 at 12:45 hours exactly, Lucas Silva (University of Groningen) will defend his thesis “Teachers’ Learning from Their Students. The design and evaluation of a professional development program to support the use of students’ perceptions of teaching quality”. All ICO Members…
PhD Defence Marloes Vreekamp
On Thursday 2 April, 2026 at 15:30 hours exactly, Marloes Vreekamp (Wageningen University) will defend her thesis “Unravelling teacher development: exploring the mechanisms, conditions and continuity of teacher learning in pedagogical development programmes in higher education”. All ICO Members are cordially invited to be present…
Save the date: Inaugural lecture Maaike Endedijk
The rhythm of learning. Het samenspel van leren, werk en technologie in tijden van transitie 9 April 2026, University of Twente
Extended registration: ICO course Domain-specific education and learning
About the course Course coordinators: Research within the area of learning and education often takes place within a specific domain. Important research questions focus on learning and teaching of domain-specific ways of reasoning and problem solving. Within these domains many innovations have been implemented…
For all ICO PhDs: the ICO Monitor
The end of the year is coming near, which means it is time for ICO to check if our PhD members are doing okay, by asking you all to fill in “The ICO PhD Monitor 2025”. We would truly appreciate it if you would…
PhD Defence Katrijn Opstoel
On Friday, 16 January 2026 at 10:00 hours exactly, Katrijn Opstoel (Utrecht University) will defend her thesis “Teachers on Fostering Personal and Social Development in Primary School Physical Education”. All ICO Members are cordially invited to be present at the PhD graduation ceremony at the Academiegebouw…
PhD Defence Anja Schoots
On Tuesday 10 March, 2026 at 14:30 hours exactly, Anja Schoots (Leiden University) will defend her thesis In de klas met kompas. Student agency als leidend principe in het curriculum van het voortgezet onderwijs. All ICO Members are cordially invited to be present at the…
ICO GSS 2026: Registration is now open
16-17 April 2026, Utrecht University, website: https://gss2026.ico-education.nl/ We are pleased to invite all ICO members to ICO’s networking event: the ICO Graduate Spring School 2026 (GSS 2026), taking place on 16–17 April 2026 at Utrecht University. The GSS is a two-day networking event for…
Download the inaugural lecture of Arthur Bakker
Arthur would like to thank you for coming to support him for his inaugural lecture on “Curriculum en didactiek in actie”. You can now download the text (in Dutch) in two versions (for reading the text online, or to print) at Curriculum en didactiek…
PhD Defence Pieter van Lamoen
On Thursday 18 December 2025 at 15:30 hours exactly, Pieter van Lamoen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will defend his thesis Belonging and becoming. Supporting diverse student populations in the transition to higher education. All ICO Members are cordially invited to be present at the PhD graduation…