In order to fully realise the potential of online and blended learning (OBL), teacher professional development (TPD) strategies on how to teach in an online or blended learning environment are needed. While many studies examine the effects of TPD strategies, fewer studies target the specific important …

Train the Trainer, Training Lecturers from Alfa-college Hoogeveen to teach Critical Friends Workshops

BACKGROUND: Medication-related problems are common after hospitalization, for example when changes in patients' medication regimens are accompanied by insufficient patient education, poor information transfer between healthcare providers, and inadequate follow-up post-discharge. We investigated the effect …

Korte beschrijving van het project 'Muziek is Taal en Rekenen' in Delft, waarin basisschoolleerkrachten geleerd wordt te werken met de door Wolf Brinkman en DOK Delft ontwikkelde M=T+R-methodologie.

Dit stuk gaat in op de vakmanschapslijn, een opleidingslijn in het curriculum van de Lerarenopleiding Basisonderwijs aan de Christelijke Hogeschool Ede. De basis van de vakmanschapslijn wordt gevormd door vijf kritische beroepssituaties. Dit zijn beschrijvingen van vijf actuele, veelvoorkomende situaties …

Background: In the Netherlands, most of the academic curricula for teacher training in religious education (RE) focus on shortfalls of students, like a lack of knowledge about the plurality of worldviews and the diversity in interpretations of the Christian tradition. In our research project, the focus …

Super Bowl commercials teach us how to conceive of surveillance. While Apple promises to fight Big Brother with a personal computer, Coca-Cola invites us to think different, i.e. positively about security cameras. The whitewashing of surveillance accompanies the ‘big brotherization’ of Apple. However, …

This small-scale observational study explores how Dutch bilingual education history teachers (BHTs) focus on the L2 component in their CLIL-lessons. We observed and rated eight BHTs on five language teaching categories. Results show that Dutch BHTs focus more strongly on using the L2 to teach subject …

For the overarching working mechanism empowerment, expertise in the field of dementia and psychological skills of coaches seem to be important. Assessing the needs, capacities, and limitations of both the PWD and the caregivers to take part in activities seems to be key, as well as the communication …

Over the last decade, many (European) countries have created special committees or conducted special investigations into the occurrence of sexual abuse in residential and/or foster care. Many of these studies concluded that children and young people in care are at a greater risk of being sexually abused, …