MA Hennie van Heijst

Position: Teacher researcher, teacher trainer, school pedagogist, doctoral student (NWO-doctoral scholarship)
Email: h.van.heijst@aeres.nl

Hennie van Heijst researches how knowledge building conversations work and how they relate to students’ opinions on knowledge and learning. She also researches what role teacher presence plays here. She carries out this research in the Learning and Innovation master’s programme.

Hennie teaches school pedagogy in the Learning and Developing master’s programme at Aeres University of Applied Sciences in Wageningen. She carries out doctoral research on students’ knowledge building processes in an online collaborative learning environment called Knowledge Forum.