Due to socio-political issues in Dutch society, citizenship education (CE) became obligatory by law in the Netherlands in 2006. Schools were to decide on their local CE curriculum. This contribution intends to open up the black box of school-based curriculum-making efforts for CE. It reports on a four-year …

This article explores which tensions teachers experience during one year of participation in a professional learning community (PLC). Tensions are more or less temporal negative feelings of stress, loss of self-efficacy or anxiety caused by conflicting personal features and workplace affordances. A qualitative …

Guiding student questioning to become effective for attaining curriculum objectives is a challenge for many teachers. In two previous studies a principle-based scenario was developed in two primary schools to enhance teacher guidance of effective student questioning. This study aims to determine to what …

Lerarenopleiders en onderzoek hebben een relatie die niet altijd zonder problemen is. Dat is zeker voor een deel te verklaren vanuit de geschiedenis. In het overzicht dat Van Essen schrijft over 200 jaar leraren opleiden voor het basisonderwijs, noemt ze één constante. Er wordt al die tijd gezocht naar …