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Harmen Schaap is an Assistant Professor at Radboud Teachers Academy. His role encompasses that of a teacher educator and coordinator of a two-year teacher education program, focusing on educational science. His current research interests include teacher agency, professional identity tensions, and the challenges of burnout experienced by early-career teachers. He aims to enhance understanding of the complex interactions between personal factors such as self-efficacy and motivation, and contextual factors such as learning culture, subject teams, and leadership within schools. The findings from his research are actively utilized in educational partnerships aimed at developing teacher induction programs that help guide new teachers in their first years while preventing early dropout. He has received various grants, particularly for policy research on teacher agency in the context of professionalization initiatives, funded by the Dutch Institute for Educational Research. His research theme is centered on professional identity tensions within school organizations, teacher induction, well-being, and burnout.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).