How does artistic identity influence the self-confidence of music educators? What is the interconnection between the artistic and the teacher identity? What is actually meant by artistic identity in music education? What is a fruitful environment for the development of artistic self-confidence of music …

In the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) basic psychological needs for relatedness, autonomy and competence are distinguished. Basic psychological need fulfilment is considered to be critical for human development and intrinsic motivation. In the Netherlands, the concept of basic psychological need fulfilment …

Brains and gender, separately and in their interrelatedness, are hot items today in popular journals and academic literature. It is in particular the complexity of the interdependence of physical-, psychological-, and contextual-related developments of feminization in education that we focus on these …

Het Nederlandse Hoger Onderwijs richt zich steeds meer op het bevorderen van excellentie onder studenten. Honoursprogramma’s en Colleges bieden talentvolle en gemotiveerde studenten nieuwe mogelijkheden. Volgens afspraken tussen het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap en de Nederlandse universiteiten …

Nowadays many schools are innovating and often do so by purchasing new electronic school boards. My training school did this as well. They bought several ActivBoards to modernize the school and its way of teaching. The only problem was that many teachers did not know how to use it and the school was …

We are in the process of preparing a teaching experiment on robotics in primary schools. In relation to this, we investigate in this paper whether it is possible to prepare teachers adequately to implement the intended pedagogy with the help of an in-service teacher education course that we developed. …

As all professionals, teacher educators are expected to develop themselves continuously during their working life in order to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. Smith (2003, p203) distinguishes three reasons for teacher educators to develop themselves: 1) to improve the profession (teacher education); …

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as modern pedagogical perspectives have created new possibilities to facilitate and support learning in higher education (HE). Emerging technologies bring opportunities to reconsider teaching and learning. New ideas and concepts about …

The professional development of teacher educators is increasingly acknowledged as a topic of paramount importance. This is partly due to the stronger emphasis on improving the quality of teacher education programs and as a consequence of the increasing focus on lifelong learning of those responsible …

Grant legt de nadruk op de verschillen tussen docenten bij het behandelen van een onderwerp. Die verschillen bestaan als het gaat om de inhoud en de didactische aanpak van de stof. Het onderwerp waarbij Grant dit onderzocht was de burgerrechtenbeweging in de V.S. vanaf de jaren ‟50. Grant heeft twee …