Both supervisors and students play an active role in facilitating workplace learning in healthcare placements. In workplace learning, affordances, referring to the opportunities for learning in the workplace, and agency, referring to the willingness and ability to engage with affordances, are central …

Vocational teachers are expected to keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. In order to support their professional development effectively, we need to understand how vocational teachers learn, what they learn, and why they learn. This study characterises vocational teachers’ continuing …

In this study, a theory synthesis was conducted from a sociocultural perspective to specify the situated processes involved in teacher agency development in the dynamics of educational practices. Agency is closely related to teacher wellbeing and important for teachers to create situations that enable …

To provide high-quality education, teachers in vocational education are expected to keep their knowledge up to date. Vocational teachers’ knowledge includes both teaching knowledge and knowledge about the vocational practice teachers educate their students for. Research on teachers’ knowledge predominantly …

This study explores how teachers’ assessment literacy manifests within assessment practices in higher professional education. While assessment literacy is a multifaceted and dynamic construct, little is known about how it unfolds in practice. Showing how assessment literacy emerges and how its meaning …

Second career teachers (SCT) are key role models in vocational education (VE) because they prepare students for the vocational practice they were part of, and they bring up-to-date vocational knowledge and skills into VE schools. Therefore, the early leaving of SCTs in VE is a problem, adding to the …

Background: Both the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and daily life gait quality and quantity obtained from wearable sensors are used to measure functional status in older adults. It is generally assumed that they are interrelated and exchangeable, but this has not yet been established. Interchangeability …

Technological and demographic developments require constant adjustment from organisations and their employees. It has, however, been indicated that especially SMEs experience difficulties in ensuring a working environment that facilitates learning and development. Five Universities in the Netherlands …

Animal wellbeing is important and it is widely accepted that an animal’s basic needs must be fulfilled. Many factors affect wellbeing of dairy cows. Common health problems are lameness and subclinical mastitis. The aim of this study was to examine changes in proximity and automatic milk system (AMS) …

Worrysome trends in health of children in Groningen