Margriet Poppema is senior lecturer (part-time) and specialized in education and international development studies. She has a long-standing experience of teaching and curriculum development related to international development issues.

Between 1990-2002 she was the academic director of international development studies programme of InDRA-UvA (Institute for Development Research Amsterdam) and the coordinator of the International Lecture Series developing different contemporary themes like: development aid, globalisation and cultural diversity, sustainable development, participatory development, forced migration and the refugee crisis, etc. Her teaching concerns different courses on education and international development and introductory courses on international development studies & development theories. She currently teaches “Education, International Development  in Contexts of Diversity” (MA), Education and International Development (BA) & Introduction International Development Studies (BA), giving guest lectures and supervising MA thesis on a variety of topics within this field.

Her research is focused on themes related to Education and International Development and more specifically on analyzing education reforms from a social justice perspective taking into account the dimensions of inequality, recognition and participation; multicultural/intercultural education reforms and education in (post) conflict areas; the changing governance of education and the role of the different actors, and decentralization and school-based management.  She has a regional focus on Latin America.

• Education and Development Group

• Governance and Inclusive Development (GID) Research Programme

• Geen nevenwerkzaamheden