Internationalizing curricula. Needs and wishes of alumni and employers with regard to international competencies. Internationalization has become of great importance for universities acrossthe globe. The labour market is becoming international, with internationalopportunities and international competition. …

This report is a feasibility study for the start-up of Caribbean Flavors, an online groceries shop. Caribbean Flavors aims to offer Caribbean ingredients and food products to consumers in Spykenisse. Before taking serious steps and opening its store, the company wanted to explore its opportunities and …

Brains and gender, separately and in their interrelatedness, are hot items today in popular journals and academic literature. It is in particular the complexity of the interdependence of physical-, psychological-, and contextual-related developments of feminization in education that we focus on these …

Participation in everyday occupations influences people's health and well-being. To enable individuals to do the activities they want and need to do is the main concern of occupational therapy practice. Many daily occupations are universal, but they also depend on culture. The development of the Activity …

“Municipal Youth Work taken over by Christians”. (Binnenlands Bestuur, 2009) This heading refers to the work of Youth for Christ in an Amsterdam neighbourhood. This organisation, successful in Youth Work nationwide, last year came out first in an open competition of the Amsterdam district De Baarsjes. …

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Until this day the Dutch culture has been stereotyped as easy-going, mild, open and very tolerable. The tolerated use of marihuana and gay-parades make the Netherlands seem as an open minded country. But times have changed. Everyday this country is becoming more multicultural and it changes in its identity. …

The multicultural society cannot be denied, because we experience this society on the street, in our neighborhoods, at schools, on public transport and at work in the Netherlands. However, for a couple of years this society is no longer truly accepted. Even a simple question as 'Do we live in a multicultural …

Since western societies are threatened by culture-related terrorist attacks, multicultural attitudes are changing and intercultural tensions induce ethnic groups to stand opposite towards each other. This renders ethnic and cultural diversity an important subject for research, not only in society at large, …

This paper reports on CATS (2006-2007), a project initiated by the Research Centre ‘Teaching in Multicultural Schools’, that addresses language related dropout problems of both native and non-native speakers of Dutch in higher education. The project’s main objective is to develop a model for the redesign …