Pedagogical approaches often assume fixed ontological positions, such as teacher-centered, curriculum-centered, child-centered, or world-centered perspectives, which tend to overlook the complexity of educational practice. These approaches limit educators’ ability to adaptively shift between diverse …

In mijn promotieonderzoek heb ik mij gericht op het identificeren van inspiratiebronnen voor profes-sionalisering in de vorm van persona’s, die ik beelden van de professional heb genoemd (De Jonge, 2015). Mijn aanvankelijk plan was om deze bronnen vruchtbaar te maken voor professionaliserings-trajecten, …

Higher education (HE) is engaged in a variety of educational innovations, as well as professional development initiatives (PDIs) to support teachers in attaining the required expertise. To improve teacher professional learning and development (PLD) and innovation processes, it is important to understand …

A Europe-wide revival of the idea of bildung as a goal for education has been gaining momentum for a couple of decades. The main idea is that bildung enables teachers, researchers and policy makers “… to explore the ways in which education might be about something more than simply the transmission of …

This paper explores how a Bildung-making approach underpinned by embodied pedagogy and didactics can contribute to a learner becoming a person and a teacher’s development of artistry. We argue that the existing Cartesian divide between mind and body can explain the fundamental differences in how teachers …

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This article is based on five years of longitudinal participatory action research on how former pre‐bachelor programme students with a refugee background experience finding their way into Dutch higher education and society. The four‐member research team and authors (two of which were former refugees), …

Het debat rond politiserende praktijken is steeds luider te horen (Kaulingfreks, 2022; Van Bouchaute & Vanderhulst, 2022), hoewel nog regelmatig ‘over de hoofden’ van werkers gevoerd. Sociaal werkers geven hun normatieve professionaliteit vorm in ‘rommelige’ of ‘modderige’ contexten, waarbij door reflectie …

Docenten worden iedere dag geconfronteerd met dilemma’s in hun lespraktijk waarbij ze, individueel of samen in het docententeam, moeten oordelen en handelen wat gezien de specifieke situatie, voor de student wenselijk is. Het bepalen van wat wenselijk is, hangt samen met de waarden van de docent en die …