We, humans have our roots in pre-Anthropocene eras where we gathered skills for survival and establishing our culture. The cumulated tacit knowledge, the skills, ideas and experiences that can only be shared by personal contact and mutual trust, is evolved and cumulated during this pre-Anthropocene era. …

Many studies have suggested that personal practical knowledge is essential for professional development. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the importance of teacher educators’ personal practical knowledge of ‘language’ for student learning development. However, the need for teacher educators …

In het voorjaar van 2017 startten SKSG en obs De Feniks in Groningen het project Taalatelier, dat een vervolg kreeg in schooljaar 2017-2018. Pedagogisch medewerkers (verder: pm’ers) Rene Liet en Manon Jongsma van SKSG ontvingen op woensdag- en vrijdagmiddag een groep kinderen uit groep 4-5 om motiverende …

Op de BSO de Sterrensteen in Vinkhuizen (onderdeel van de SKSG) is vanaf maart 2017 gestart met het opzetten van talentateliers voor kinderen uit groep 3, 4 en 5. Doel van de talentateliers is om kinderen op een aansprekende en betekenisvolle manier hun talenten te laten ontdekken. Waar mogelijk sluiten …

Presentatie over de voortgang van het onderzoek Curious Minds - Kunsteducatie

In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents’ development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting …

BACKGROUND: Our previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware …

This dissertation explores the ways in which third wave feminist organisations can influence mass media coverage in their favour. Social movements are dependent on mass media in order to thrive. Mass media legitimises social movement’s claims, broadens the scope of conflict and mobilises the public (Gamson …

The purpose of the design-based research reported here is to show – as a proof of principle – how the idea of scaffolding can be used to support primary teachers in a professional development programme (PDP) to design and enact language-oriented science lessons. The PDP consisted of six sessions of 2.5 h …

For delayed and long-term students, the education process is often a lonely journey. The main conclusion of this research is that learning should not be an individual process of the student connected to one lecturer, but rather a community where learning is a collective journey. The social interaction …