Samenvatting

Curious about the world. Education in harmony with the surrounding context’. On December 11, 2014, dr. Hanno van Keulen was installed as professor on the chair for Educational Leadership at Windesheim Flevoland University of Applied Science in Almere, the Netherlands. In his lecture, Hanno van Keulen first addresses the special history of the province of Flevoland, emerging from the sea through a grand act of polder creation only decades ago. New Towns like Almere and Lelystad have subsequently been designed and built. Higher Education came only recently, in 2010. It has to meet the challenges of a region that still has to develop socially and economically, but it can already benefit from the architectural and organizational alignment between the provincial, municipal and private institutions for education, youth care and governance. The research program of the Lectureship of Educational Leadership focuses on establishing and investigating professional learning communities in order to promote continuing professional development and innovation in the whole area of education, from toddler through K-18 into higher education and professional life, from honours programs for high achievers to programs for children that need care or have special educational needs. Given the immense potential of technology for future careers and employment, the research program focuses on strengthening STEM (‘Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics’) education and relating STEM to academic language skills, 21st century skills and citizenship in formal and informal education. In his lecture, Hanno van Keulen elaborates on the theory of embodied and situated cognition and its relevance for education.