Using the past to orientate on the present and the future can be seen as one of history’s main contributions to educating future citizens of democratic societies. Because teachers often lack useful methods for pursuing this goal, this study explores three pedagogical approaches that may help them making …

In CLIL contexts, school subjects are taught in an additional language, allowing learners to acquire the target language through meaningful use. This places language teachers in an ambiguous position. What is their role in this context? On the one hand, language teachers are expected to collaborate with …

What lecturers do and think are a prerequisite for educational change. It is therefore important to gain insight into factors that influence their involvement in educational reform. This study considers the effect of leadership and managerial constructs on lecturers’ commitment to the newly implemented …

For the first time in the Netherlands, the Adjustment Scales for Early Transition in Schooling (ASETS) have been applied to kindergarten and first-grade elementary school. A study was conducted to examine the relation between the different behavioral (phenotypes) and situational dimensions (situtypes) …

Deze literatuurstudie heeft als doel antwoord te geven op de volgende vragen: 1 Welke voor- en nadelen van geïntegreerd onderwijs worden vanuit de curriculumtheorie onderscheiden en in hoeverre zijn deze empirisch onderbouwd? 2 Welke vormen van integratie zijn onder welke omstandigheden aanbevelenswaardig …

Het HvA-programma ‘Flexibel, studeerbaar en robuust onderwijs’ streeft naar flexibel onderwijs in een studeerbaar en robuust curriculum in 2020 in alle opleidingen. De veronderstelling is dat door flexibiliteit de onderwijskwaliteit verbetert, want het onderwijs sluit beter aan bij de behoeften, kennis …

This thesis explores the opportunities for developing and assessing learners’ EFL oral skills in pre-vocational classrooms in the Netherlands. The thesis contains four studies. First, we evaluate the oral interaction practice offered in EFL coursebooks. In the second study, we explore ways to assess …

De meeste lesboeken laten leerlingen oefenen door nieuw geleerde taalelementen te laten toepassen in geleide of gesloten spreekopdrachten. De vraag is of leerlingen daarmee voldoende leren om zich staande te kunnen houden in spontane, onvoorspelbare spreeksituaties. In haar promotieonderzoek onderzocht …