Background: Healthy development of children is under pressure. While governments, schools and organizations are trying to stimulate physical activity in children, reduce overweight and improve motor skills, they are facing challenges in finding effective strategies. The model proposed by Stodden et al. …

The first year of study is very exciting for many students. Everything is new: the school, your schedule, the teachers, and your fellow students. How can a university ensure a smooth transition for first-year students? For this, Inholland launched the Students for Students (S4S) project in the 2019-2020 …

Over het effect van hoge verwachtingen op het leren van leerlingen. Ik observeerde een lessituatie op een school. Een leerling stelde een vraag. De leraar beantwoordde de vraag met een aanwijzing over hoe het probleem op te lossen. Dezelfde leraar kreeg vervolgens een vraag van een andere leerling. Hij …

In primary music education a key question is what teachers can do to stimulate students’ musical creativity. For the answer, delving into teacher-student interaction during the creative processes in the naturalistic setting of primary music lessons is required. Twenty-six music lessons from thirteen …

In het onderzoek ‘Veiligheid in seksuele diversiteit’ is onderzoek gedaan naar hoe de leerlingen van het Montessori College de veiligheid omtrent seksuele diversiteit ervaren op school. De opdrachtgever was op zoek naar een oplossing welke de ervaren veiligheid (onder andere omtrent seksuele diversiteit) …

This study quantitatively investigates enrolments of international students using data that contains nearly every student in the Netherlands for the years 2016–2019. Using this data, we are able to perform a meso-level analysis where we could investigate the characteristics of higher education institutions …

Als tiener leerde ik op school het verschil tussen de middeleeuwse en de moderne levenshouding aan de hand van twee Latijnse termen: memento mori en carpe diem. Het eerste betekent ‘gedenk te sterven’, bedenk dat je eindig bent en ‘tot stof zult wederkeren’, zoals psalm 90 het zegt. Dit was de middeleeuwse …

This paper provides new insights into entrepreneurship education (EE) for children, by combining three elements that expand the EE literature in a novel direction: (1) the content focus is on social and sustainable entrepreneurship; (2) the educational setting studied is primary education; and (3) the …

This three-wave study examined associations between a motivational construct future time perspective (FTP) and teachers’ identity (TI) in a sample of Dutch student teachers (N = 368). Additionally, gender and educational level were included as factors affecting FTP and TI. Random intercept cross-lagged …

The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) has operated a Mobile Planetarium for over 14 years. Between 2009-2023, the project reached more than 400,000 learners and their teachers across the Netherlands. The project has been popular with schools since the beginning but continues to grow and …