In my dissertation, the research model of Didactic Reconstruction is modified and further developed into a research model of Didactic Reconstruction for teacher training. It thus serves as the basis for a study in which teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) on the topic of evolution is surveyed. The empirical PCK study consists of analysing teachers' knowledge on 1. pupils' ideas about evolution, 2. ways of teaching evolution and 3. evolution itself. The results of the didactic reconstruction on the subject of evolution are analysed and related to the empirical PCK study with the aim of gaining guidelines for teacher training.

Dijk, E. M. van & Kattmann, U. (2007). A research model for the study of science teachers' PCK and improving teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 23,885-897.
Dijk, E. M. van (2009). Teachers' views on understanding evolutionary theory: A PCK-study in the framework of the ERTE-model. Teaching and Teacher Education, 25, 259-267.

About the person

From 1999 I worked as a biology teacher, and from 2001 I worked as a teaching support and quality management assistant at Leiden University. In 2003 and 2004 I worked as a tutoring coordinator and tutor.
Since Augustus 2004 I have been living in Hanover and since April 2005 I have been a doctoral candidate in the doctoral degree programme "Didactic Teaching and Learning Research - Didactic Reconstruction".
From 1999 I worked as a biology teacher and from 2001 I worked as a teaching support and quality management assistant at Leiden University. In 2003 and 2004 I worked as a tutoring coordinator and tutor.
Since Augustus 2004 I live in Hannover and since April 2005 I am a doctoral candidate in the doctoral degree programme "Subject Didactic Teaching and Learning Research - Didactic Reconstruction".
Education: 1999-2001: Diplom (FH) Lehramt Biologie, Sekundarstufe II, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (NL) (Hogeschool van Utrecht).
1998-1999: Diplom (FH) Lehramt Biologie, Sekundarstufe I, Fontys University of Applied Sciences Tilburg (NL) (Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg)
1991-1996: Diplom Biologie (M.Sc.), University of Nijmegen (NL) (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
- Major thesis in palaeecology, Department of Biogeology: A 700 year record of anthropogenic influence in the northern Adriatic sea.
- Minor thesis in the History of Science, Institute of History of Natural Sciences, Utrecht University (NL) (Universiteit Utrecht): Dr Jan Paulus Lotsy (1867-1931): De totstandkoming van zijn bastaarderingstheorie onder invloed van de nieuwe, experimentele methode. (Dr Jan Paulus Lotsy (1867-1931): The realisation of his theory of bastardisation under the influence of the new experimental method).

My doctorate was awarded in January 2009.