Eén op de vijf Nederlandse jongeren heeft te maken met geldzorgen (Unicef, 2022). Terwijl formele schuldhulpinstanties moeite hebben om jongeren te bereiken, weten jongerenwerkers vaak het verschil te maken. De lectoraten Armoede Interventies en Youth Spot onderzochten samen met 15 partnerorganisaties …

In this workshop we present three lesson activities to teach core (astro)physics concepts at pre-university level which students find difficult to grasp with traditional interventions: star properties, star states and the fusion-gravity balance. In each activity, students construct and simulate a conceptual …

Veel activiteiten die je binnen doet, kun je ook buiten doen. Denk aan het spelen in hoeken en het aanbieden van activiteiten. Het unieke aan de buitenruimte is dat er meer ruimte is, waardoor groot en veelzijdig bewegen makkelijker wordt, waardoor kinderen andere ervaringen op doen.

Op 31 maart 2025 interviewden we Marieke Ferwerda, directeur van de Nationaal Coördinator Groningen (NCG), en Heleen Homan, klachtencoördinator van de NCG. Marieke opent ons gesprek met haar motto: Veilig huis en veilig thuis.

Background A major challenge for effective practical work in school science is to encourage students to connect hands-on aspects to minds-on principles, in other words to Think Back-and-Forth (TBF). Teacher behaviour is pivotal in achieving this goal, but teachers lack guidelines how to accomplish this. …

Research Findings: A growing number of stakeholders in early childhood education (ECE) rely on self-assessment to assess and improve the quality of ECE. In this systematic review, we investigated the reliability and validity of self-assessment in ECE, summarizing findings from 27 publications. We meta-analytically …

Using socio-scientific issues as a learning context is an effective approach to achieve an important goal in science education, which is to enhance scientific literacy. It involves strengthening skills such as argumentation while also improving an understanding of the Nature of Science and imparting …

A goal of science education is for students to develop scientific literacy. Scientific literacy involves the acquisition of factual scientific knowledge and the ability to assess the credibility of scientific assertation. Furthermore, students should be able to include ethical considerations. Realising …