Hanneke Tuithof is a teacher educator in history education.

Her workplace is at the Cultural History Department of the Department of History and Art History and she teaches within the Graduate School of Teaching at UU. She is also a senior lecturer for two days a week in the lectorate on curriculum issues in fundamental education at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences.

From the GKG department, she organises professionalisation programmes for secondary school teachers, see www.uu.nl/geschiedenisendidactiek.

She supervises practical research by students, teachers and teacher trainers. Her own research focuses on the pedagogical content knowledge development of teachers in humanities. 

In 2016-2017, she chaired the syllabus committee for the history havo-vwo exam. After that, she was a member of the comittee recalibration of the Canon of the Netherlands (2019-2020) and since then she regularly advises and lectures on the Canon of the Netherlands. In 2022, she advised on the Canon of Flanders. From October 2021 to February 2023, she was part of the cie strengthening knowledge formerly of the Dutch East Indies. The report came out in February 2023 (report 'Deel en Verbind').

Expertise:

• Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge among (history) teachers
• Curriculum for the school subject history and other Humanities and Social Sciences subjects and their role for a regional or national canon
• Cooperation between the Humanities and Social Sciences subjects
• Supervising practical and design research

Activities:

• Teaching pedagogical content knoweldge courses and the subject history and education in the educational master of history
• Coordinating and tutoring two-year educational master's in history
• Supervising masterthesis in the two-year educational master's programme
• Organising a programme of professionalisation to experienced teachers, see for current offer www.uu.nl/geschiedenisendidactiek
• Research into the pedagogical content knowledge development of history and humanities teachers

See more information on Twitter @hanneketuithof and my YouTube Channel.