Mentoring dialogues play an important role in the supervision of prospective teachers. Mentor teachers have the dual role of guiding the students in the workplace and of stimulating students to reflect and learn from their teaching experiences. Does this happen in practice? This study describes the supervisory …

Purpose – To analyse common metaphors used in the intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management literatures to conceptualise knowledge, in order to study the nature of the intellectual capital concept. Design/methodology/approach – A textual analysis methodology is used to analyse texts from The …

Abstract Although organizations, both shippers and logistics service providers, are convinced of the potential of collaboration, it is still not successful in many cases. Therefore, collaboration in logistics is chosen as central theme for this paper. The contribution to this topic is twofold. First, …

The years between 1900 and 1930 have been a crucial period for the formation of large organizations in the Western world. Managers and scholars were searching for appropriate business models given the institutional setting. This model has impacted (and still does) the way we look at organizations and …

Professional development needs to be understood as a spontaneous process of learning at work before moving on toward the 'desired' professional development. Learning as a result of working is often implicit, stems from social interaction and direct experience, involves the (thoughtless, implicit) reproduction …

De leraar basisonderwijs van de toekomst zal naast kennisoverdracht ook sterk erop gericht zijn zijn of haar leerlingen op hun eigen ontwikkelingsniveau kennis te leren toepassen en problemen te leren oplossen. Daarvoor is een ander rollenrepertoire voor de leraar van belang geworden: relevante oefenmaterialen …

Debates about social theory and social policy are highly fragmented and unclear in subject and direction. A recognised paradigm is failing. Maybe we have to accept that social reality is not to reconstruct in social theory. But we certainly need social theorists and social theories to support citizens, …

This relationship between external knowledge providers, e.g. consultants and academic institutions, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a difficult one. SME entrepreneurs think external advice is expensive, not required and/or not useful. In this paper these arguments are explored against the …

Oratie Fontys Eindhoven Deze oratie richt zich op de kloof tussen technologische vernieuwingen en het klassieke 'mechanistische wereldbeeld' dat in de sociale sector dominant is. Dat uit zich vooral in de manier waarop technologie wordt gebruikt om te sturen. De belangrijkste stelling luidt dat 'sturen' …

In deze studie wordt de stelling verdedigd dat de spanning in het contractsmodel, (die zich overigens ook voordoet bij 'gewone' overeenkomsten als koop, arbeid en opdracht), wordt veroorzaakt doordat er aan het contractenrecht niet één, maar twee verschillende opvattingen over de verhouding tussen persoon …