Helma Oolbekkink-Marchand
Assistant Professor
HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Helma Oolbekkink-Marchand
Helma Oolbekkink-Marchand is a Professor at HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Her research interests are in teacher (educators) professional learning and especially in teacher identity and agency in different career phases and different contexts (f.e. educational innovations). She publishes about her work both in scientific and practice-oriented journals. She is the chair of the Dutch Teacher Educators Association (Velon) which aims to encourage the professional development of teacher educators. She is a member of Research School ICO where she co-coordinates the theme group Teaching and Teacher Education.
Latest publications
Oolbekkink-Marchand, H. W., & Meijer, P. C. (2025). Teacher educators’ sense of belonging: how we teach is the message. Research in Teacher Education, 15 (2), 63-67.
De Vries, B., Oolbekkink-Marchand, H., & Derks, M. (2025). Governance of teacher education in the Netherlands: redesigning a professional register to support inclusion and continuing professional development. European Journal of Teacher Education, 1–19.
Kooloos, C., Oolbekkink-Marchand, H., Kaenders, R., & Heckman, G. (2023). Developing mathematical whole-class discussions: An exploratory study of teachers’ learning paths. Teaching and Teacher Education, 134, 104257.
van der Want, A., Schaap, H., Oolbekkink-Marchand, H., Janssen, L., Ensink, M., & Meijer, P. (2022). Change in Early Career Teachers’ Professional Agency in Secondary Schools in the Netherlands. Understanding the Dynamics of Teacher Agency, Resilience, and Identity in the Neoliberal Age, 89.
Oolbekkink-Marchand, H., van der Want, A., Schaap, H., Louws, M., & Meijer, P. (2022). Achieving professional agency for school development in the context of having a PhD scholarship: An intricate interplay. Teaching and Teacher Education, 113, 103684.