Lecture (online) at invitation of CEMUS, University of Uppsala, Sweden, as part of course 'Climate Change Leadership: Power, Politics and Culture'

Mono –> bi –> multi –> inter –> trans –> idio? On operationalizing concepts of culture in Dutch (music) education.In the past five decades, the concept of culture has played an important role in Dutch (music) education. Operationalizations of the concept of culture in education – answering the question: …

AbstractIn primary music education an important question is what school teachers can do to stimulate their students’ creative potential in music. To answer this question, looking closely into the creative processes happening in teacher-student interaction in the naturalistic setting of music lessons …

Reflection on workshops and concise discussion with prize winners.

Some of the most striking accounts of the inventive power of imagination come from former prisoners who have spent time in solitary confinement. In these testimonies, they relate how their imaginative capacity enabled them to keep their sanity, even in the most arduous circumstances. Somehow they managed …

Niet iedereen heeft dezelfde kansen om aan de samenleving mee te doen. Sinds de Koppelingswet in 1998 werd ingevoerd om illegaal verblijf in Nederland te ontmoedigen, is een rechtmatige verblijfsstatus een voorwaarde voor de toegang tot (sociale) voorzieningen (1). Deze wet staat een beperkt aantal uitzonderingen …

Biomimicry is an emerging discipline that seeks nature’s advice and brings diverse stakeholders together to create designs that emulate the way nature functions, not just the way it looks. The field itself is a multidisciplinary endeavor, yet biomimicry educators frequently work alone. Pedagogical methods …

Critical reflection, addressing students’ attitude, beliefs and values related to pressing topics in the world, plays a crucial role in developing ethical sensitiveness and critical design literacy in design education. Critical reflection is provoked by discussing self-made photos, as is demonstrated …

Contribution to Session 3 op Pre-PhD program: DEVELOPING YOUR METHODOLOGY, the 'HOW?', together with dr. Chris Tonelli.