Pedagogical tact concerns a teacher's ability to adequately handle complex classroom situations that require immediate action. As such, pedagogical tact can be viewed as an enactment of teachers’ intuition. While most teachers, teacher educators, educational leaders and scholars readily recognise the …

Toen voetbalclub PSV vorig jaar de eerste twaalf wedstrijden achter elkaar ongeslagen bleef, was trainer Mark van Bommel de onbetwiste leider. Dat was toch duidelijk, vond Toon Gebrands. Dat kon je zo wel zien. Twaalf wedstrijden – zeg nou zelf. Zoiets was toch nog nooit eerder vertoond? Niet lang daarna …

Nowadays educational challenges require increasing pedagogical tact of teachers. Intuition serves this swift and appropriate classroom action, but teachers are rarely encouraged to use it. This mixed methods study investigated the effects of intuition-focused professional development on teachers' pedagogical …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van Hogeschool Inholland en specifiek Pilotgroep Smart Campus; Inholland is een nieuw gebouw aan het realiseren in de Sluisbuurt en wil daar een smart campus van maken. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om inzicht te bieden in mogelijke toepassingen van smart campus …

This article starts from the observation that popular culture resides in a contradictory space. On the one hand it seems to be thriving, in that the range of media objects that were previously studied under the rubric of popular culture has certainly expanded. Yet, cultural studies scholars rarely study …

Fear needs dealing with. Fear demands to be abated, countered or turned into something else, contributing and curtailing how we ‘do’ being human beings. This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies addresses fear within media and popular culture, adopting a cultural studies approach …

Fashion is under scrutiny. Social activists raise the debate around animal welfare in the apparel industry. With shocking and disturbing images, they are campaigning to attract worldwide media attention in order to highlight serious animal abuse in production of fashion, and influence consumption. Our …

What you don’t know can’t hurt you: this seems to be the current approach for responding to disinformation by public regulators across the world. Nobody is able to say with any degree of certainty what is actually going on. This is in no small part because, at present, public regulators don’t have the …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology which is increasingly being utilised in society and the economy worldwide, but there is much disquiet over problematic and dangerous implementations of AI, or indeed even AI itself deciding to do dangerous and problematic actions. These developments have led …

Maatschappelijke vraagstukken worden steeds nijpender. Van dementie tot klimaatverandering en corona; we hebben er als mensen, burgers, bewoners en stadsgebruikers – al dan niet door eigen ervaring – een gevoel bij. Het echt begrijpen en aanpakken van deze vraagstukken is echter lastig, want er is niet …