The importance of international conferences in promoting excellence in honors education

Teach to excel

Do honours programmes create a culture of excellence?

Pedagogy for gifted and talented students in higher education is the main topic of this study. Teachers of educational programmes designed for talented or highly motivated students in higher education (here called honours programmes) are challenged to stimulate students to increase the quality of their …

This presentation compares the two main gifted education programmes for undergraduate students in the Netherlands and Germany. The programmes were evaluated and will be compared in terms of the institutions involved, the educational objectives pursued, the nature of support provided to the students, …

Pupils in Amsterdam are able to experience the circle of life in the so called year­‐around-programme, provided in one of the thirteen school gardens. Studies have shown that nature education contributes to the development of nature awareness by children. Only a few studies have investigated the level …

Aim of this thesis was to comprehensively summarize and compare twenty one scientific papers on HAE that were written in Germany. Resulting from this investigation, future research impulses are given at the end of this study. The scientific papers that were in the focus of this thesis consist of seven …

As part of the international research and design project StreetWorks: Patterns in Urbanity, professor of Design in Urbanism Henk Hartzema, together with students from the Academy, explored and researched the function of the street in six European cities, each with a population of around 1 million residents: …

Commemorating its founding in 1908, the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture has initiated a series of publications to highlight the results of its Masters Education and research programmes. First in the series, this book reflects on the Academy's 2008 centenary celebrations, the evolution of its programme, …

After 2001, nine years after the fall of the Taliban, women's socio-economic position in Afghanistan has hardly improved. To this day, women are subjected to many cruelties such as torture and rape. After the Taliban had been defeated in 2001, the total amount of development assistance by the international …