This paper focuses on utilizing the Celciushouse as an escape room in energy education. In a broader context, it also addresses the incorporation of serious gaming in education. The project is part of COVE SEED. SEED - Sustainable Energy Education, aims to develop innovative vocational education and …

Purpose: During the last decade, new continuing learning pathways have been designed and implemented in the Dutch Vocational Education and Training (VET) column aiming to foster students' transitions between successive educational levels. Prototypical examples of such continuing learning …

When addressing problems with wicked tendencies in higher professional education, students experience complexity, uncertainty, and value divergence. Furthermore, they are confronted with disciplinary, organisational, and sector boundaries. Prior research has revealed variability in students’ experiences …

Saskia M.G. Weijzen, Cassandra Onck, Arjen E. Wals, Valentina C. Tassone & Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink (2023) Vocational education for a sustainable future: Unveiling the collaborative learning narratives to make space for learning, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, DOI:10.1080/13636820.2023.227046 …

Educational policies in the Netherlands reveal that the current mainstream participatory approach to citizenship education jeopardises students’ autonomy. Especially in Dutch post-secondary vocational education, citizenship education has been shown to be mainly aimed at socialization: initiating students …

Vocational teachers continuously tailor their teaching to changes in occupational practice, technologies, and student diversity. Teacher professional development is crucial for dealing with these changes. A longitudinal study was conducted to study the professional development activities of vocational …

To meet society’s changing demands, the responsive development of curricula is vital, and curriculum developers need to increasingly foresee and incorporate changes into their curricula in a timely manner. However, responsive curriculum development is a complex problem for curriculum developers in vocational …

One of the key ways to tackle staff shortages is education, which requires collaboration between organisations. As internships are crucial in vocational training, educational and internship institutes need to agree on the terms of internships. The aim of this study is to answer the research question: …

Professionals are increasingly involved in attempts to under stand and address problems with wicked tendencies, which require crossing boundaries between disciplines, organisa tions and stakeholder perspectives. This multiple-case study investigated six higher professional education courses in order …