Composition of the committee

Rob van der Vaart (UU, chairman)

Tine Beneker (UU, secretary)

Anouk Adang (Baarnsch Lyceum and UU)

Annemies Broekgaarden (Tropenmuseum Junior)

Hans Palings (Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg)

Mariëtte van Stalborch (NCDO)

Annelies Zoomers (UU)

Rob van der Vaart (chairman) is attached to Utrecht University as Dean of University College Utrecht (UCU) and as Professor of Human Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences. For years he has been engaged in sustainable development, global education and internationalization and education. He was closely associated with the review of the final havo and vwo examination syllabuses for geography. He was also a member of the Van Oostrom Committee which drew up the Canon of the Netherlands.

Tine Beneker (secretary) is a lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University. She lectures on the Geocommunications Master’s course and specialized in global education, global citizenship and geography teaching. She takes part in international research into global education. Together with Rob van der Vaart, she was responsible for the organization of the NCDO Global Citizenship and Education Masterclass and for the NCDO vision document Global citizenship and Education.

Anouk Adang was working as a Geography teacher at Baarnsch Lyceum at the time the Committee was active and as a project worker at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. She is currently working as education coordinator for the Dutch Royal Geographical Society.

Annemies Broekgaarden was appointed head of Education at the Rijksmuseum as from 1 December 2008. For eight years prior to this she worked as head of the Tropenmuseum Junior, the children’s museum department of the Royal Tropical Institute. Before that she was the communication project leader for the national broadcasting corporation. The focus of her activities is children’s interest in the world, and in line with this, the perception of global citizenship at primary school age.

Hans Palings is a lecturer on the Bachelor’s and Master’s courses in Geography at Fontys College of Education in Tilburg. He is engaged there in the following fields: geography education, geography and citizenship and teaching methodology.

Mariëtte van Stalborch has been head of NCDO’s various sector programmes for eight years. At NCDO she has designed the education programme in cooperation with people with practical experience. On the initiative of NCDO she organized the Masterclass together with Rob van der Vaart and Tine Beneker. The canon for global citizenship, which resulted from this Masterclass, is a joint initiative of NCDO and Utrecht University.

Annelies Zoomers has been Professor of Human Geography, in particular International Development, at Utrecht University since 1 September 2007. After studying human geography of the developing countries (Utrecht University), she took a doctoral degree at Radboud University (Nijmegen) in 1988. For the following 9 years she worked from the Dutch Institute of Economics (Rotterdam) and the Royal Tropical Institute (Amsterdam) as an expert in development cooperation in various countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. From 1995 to 2007 she worked for the Centre for Latin American Documentation and Research (CEDLA).

Consultations by the committee

The committee arranged several sessions with “hands on” experts to acquire outside contributions. The committee expresses its gratitude for the inspiring ideas which emerged during these meetings and which found their way, directly or indirectly, to this canon. The group meetings were as follows:

• Students and lecturers at Fontys College of Education, Tilburg (13 January 2008)
• Citizenship network Alice O (29 January 2008)
• Teachers of primary and secondary education (31 January 2008)
• Lecturers at the PABO Haarlem (1 April 2008)
• Platform Migrant Parents and Education (2 April 2008)
• Students at the PABO Rotterdam/Dordrecht (7 April 2008)
• (Former) members of the Derde Kamer (Third Chamber) NCDO (17 April 2008)
• Master students of Geography and Communication group in an Educational Design Workshop course (April-May 2008)