Communities of practice (CoPs) impact different actors in different ways. Because using a singular approach would not do justice to the complexity that surrounds CoPs, a multi-disciplinary and pluralistic approach is used here to develop a model for measuring the impact CoPs may have on individuals, …

A manifesto written by Geert Lovink and Franco Berardi in which they call for action against the influence of financial markets, which are destroying the foundations of social civilization.

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to 1) give an overview of the prevalence of HR practices that are used to retain vital older workers in health organizations, 2) to examine the evaluations of those HR practices, and 3) to determine the wishes for HR practices in three different target groups: …

A qualitative study of HRM programmes in eight different organizations was set up in order to identify factors, called implementability levers, that contributed to the implementability of those programmes. Three types of those levers were found, related to, respectively, the proces of the programme implementation …

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 …

Analysis of the bacterial flora is important for the characterization of fermentation events. They help the further validation of the “prebiotic index“ as fast and cost-effective screening of prebotic action within individuals or selected populations.

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, …

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De laatste decennia laten een spectaculaire groei zien in deelname aan en belangstelling voor sport. Parallel hieraan zijn grote veranderingen zichtbaar in de organisatorische infrastructuur van de sport: de opmars van een veelzijdig commercieel sportaanbod, nieuwe non-profit initiatieven en een groeiende …

Op 2 december 2010 kozen 24 officials van het FIFA comité Rusland en Qatar als organiserende landen voor de WK's voetbal van 2018 en 2022. Vooraf was er in Nederland veel discussie over of wij wel aan dit bid moesten meedoen. Voor SportknowhowXL zet Hans Slender de argumenten op een rijtje.