Just like music and art education, technical education is very closely linked to practice in an ever changing world. Techniques come and go, sometimes at lightning speed. Especially at the level of secondary vocational education (level 2, 3 and 4) there are shortages in well trained craftsmen. Technical …

A colomn about Roger Waters, Rock Academies, technology and art education.

At the individual level we know that it can be very difficult to unlearn bad habits. For example, a once learned but non-optimal fingering on the piano is almost impossible to unlearn. The problem, as Dickens describes so beautifully in his famous Christmas Carol, is that we indeed make the chain we …

After more than a year in our Beta talent project, a characteristic of the (autistic) candidates seems to be more common than any other: a lack of confidence in working in teams. The project is intended for people within the autistic spectrum with excellent (cognitive) competencies, who nevertheless …

Voor u ligt het onderzoeksrapport ‘Virtual Reality Therapie: Een kwalitatief onderzoek naar de belemmerende factoren van Virtual Reality Therapie bij behandelaren die aangesloten zijn bij Vrendle’. Het onderzoekrapport is geschreven in het kader van mijn afstuderen voor de opleiding Toegepaste Psychologie …

De digitale leeromgeving is tegenwoordig van belang voor de kwaliteit van het onderwijs. De digitale leeromgeving maakt onderwijsprocessen efficiënter en kunnen onderwijsprocessen zelfs vernieuwen en verbeteren. Om optimaal te kunnen studeren zijn naast een digitale leeromgeving, leerstrategieën van …

This colomn is the sequel of the colomn Beta talent forward. In this colomn the central question is how our autistiform beta talent candidates can use their powers as part of the "tribe", so that they reinforce the team 's intelligence.

A colomn about "the biggest knowledge festival in the Netherlands". Saxion University had rented a large tent. Eight Saxion professors and their students gave lectures on smart technology. Between the lectures, I walked across the festival site. What a profusion! Performances in every nook and cranny. …

For susceptible children, appropriate education and the right circumstances are of the utmost importance, even more than with "normal" children. In wrong circumstances things can easily go wrong. But under favourable conditions these people can reach the top. A bit like Formula 1 cars, which still have …

During our lives we go through many of these cycles. It is no coincidence that, now that our world is so constantly available, on average we start with jobs, friends and loved ones over and over again. Now that we derive our stability from a continuously available environment, our cyclical nature is …