How can the teaching of biology contribute to sustainability education? The authors of this article suggest that their approach has the potential to increase the students’ level of engagement with the natural environment. The scope of biology teaching can be widened by allowing room for more experience …

In CLIL contexts in the Netherlands, learners use the target language meaningfully in subject lessons parallel to English classes and English teachers are expected to co-operate with subject teacher colleagues. What does this mean for content and language in English lessons and for English teachers’ …

Het lectoraat noemt dit Next Education, Next Governance en Next Business. Het lectoraat is nauw verbonden met Buurtsamenwerking Helpman/de Wijert, waarin alle hiervoor genoemde modellen tot uiting komen. In de Buurtsamenwerking wordt gezamenlijk een weg gezocht om ondernemers, overheid, wijkbewoners …

From the article: "The educational domain is momentarily witnessing the emergence of learning analytics – a form of data analytics within educational institutes. Implementation of learning analytics tools, however, is not a trivial process. This research-in-progress focuses on the experimental implementation …

Mixing examples of different categories (interleaving) has been shown to promote inductive learning as compared with presenting examples of the same category together (massing). In three studies, we tested whether the advantage of interleaving is exclusively due to the mixing of examples from different …

Onderwijs, onderzoek en werkveld: samenwerking vanuit de bovenschoolse Kenniswerkplaats Gezonde Leefstijl   Achtergrond en doelstelling Het gezondheidsdomein verandert sterk en vraagt van nieuwe gezondheidsprofessionals dat zij in staat zijn om over de grenzen van hun eigen expertise heen te kijken. …

The Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) scale measures environmental concern in relation to sustainable development. This article will discuss how this scale was tested with three groups of Dutch higher education students. Findings demonstrate that anthropocentric …

In our research we focus on the architectural characteristics of a location, seen as a precondition to appeal to the imaginative power of learners that plays a part in satisfying their (presupposed) spiritual hunger and longings for a better world. The concepts space, nonplace, and place, in their relation …

The bilingual education standard agreed by the Network for Dutch Bilingual schools requires subject teachers to be able to provide feedback on their learners’ language use. But this is not as easy as it seems. What type of language do learners produce in subject lessons? What language aspects could the …