Your Perspective: Education

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Topic

Sharing knowledge. Fostering skills. Creating engagement. Educators all over the globe inspire billions of people every day. From kindergarten to university, to lifelong learning. The possibilities for careers in education are endless, whether you want to teach in high school until your retirement or help in facilitating good education.

This month’s Your Perspective is all about education and work that helps education take place. With a degree in the humanities you can become a teacher, trainer or maybe facilitator of education. Our panel of alumni will give you a taste of what’s possible, how to get there, and what skills and preparation you would need for a career in this broad field. We will host a diverse panel to show you a wide range of opportunities.

Speakers

Laurens van Herpen is a Geography and History teacher at Rientjes Mavo. Previously he worked as a teacher of History, Geography, Social Studies and Levensbeschouwing (VMBO Basis/Kader) at the Focus Beroepsacademie. He also did an internship at Stichting Scala College as a teacher of History (Havo/VWO lower school and the last years of secondary school) and gained experience with bilingual education and being a mentor-assistant. Laurens took a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master's degree in Cultural History of Modern Europe in Utrecht. In 2020 he completed the Educational Master's in Leiden.

Anieka Dijkman is a trainer in plain language at BureauTaal. She also advises on and writes texts herself that are accessible to a wide audience. Anieka completed her Master's in Multilingualism and Language Acquisition (Meertaligheid en BTaalverwerving) in Utrecht in 2021 and before that did a bachelor's in Linguistics in Groningen. For her Master's, she did an internship as a materials developer at the educational publisher NCB Uitgeverij.

Suzanne Lekkerkerker works at the Regionaal Historisch Centrum Vecht en Venen on topics related to education and heritage. Within her position, she introduces citizens of the region to their local history by organising various activities. Suzanne did her Bachelor's degree in History in Rotterdam and completed her Master's degree in History of Politics and Society in Utrecht in 2018. During this Master's, she did an education related internship at a residential museum.

Yvonne Verweij is E-learning specialist at Rutgers Kenniscentrum seksualiteit. Before this, she worked as a Learning Specialist at TinQwise, as well as English teacher at a secondary school. She did several internships in education, as well as at EduDivers, the knowledge centre for education and sexual diversity. Following her Bachelor's degree in English language and culture and Master's degree in Gender Studies, she completed her Educational Master's as a first-degree qualified English teacher in 2018.