Today, multidisciplinary cooperation (MC) is an important objective of higher vocational education. The aim of this ongoing study was to explore how, and to what extent, fourth year bachelor students at two research centers (Built Environment and Energy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences) develop …

The ‘Sport Physical Education and Coaching for Health (SPEACH) project, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (2015-2017) aims to increase awareness and behavioral change in sport professionals and European citizens towards an active and healthy lifestyle. The target is to develop …

Bevordering van excellentie in het onderwijs is in Nederland al langer “hot”, maar niet in het mbo. Daar komt verandering in. Veel scholen, waaronder ROC Midden Nederland (ROCMN), vroegen subsidie aan om uitdagende programma’s te realiseren voor studenten die meer willen. Een interessante ontwikkeling …

Background In the Netherlands, there has been a strong increase in diversity among students in recent decades. Even though access for previously underrepresented groups based on economic status, ethnicity or culture has been realised to a certain extent, differences in student performance between groups …

Often research, education and professional practice are positioned as different activities. Researchers, students and professionals are defined in subject-object relations. For my Phd. thesis I applied another perspective. In dialogue with School Social Workers, Bachelor Social Work students during their …

This chapter describes the developments in the area of assessment in vocational education in the Netherlands over the past 15 years. In: Bruijn, E., Billett, S., & Onstenk, J. (Eds.). (2017). Enhancing teaching and learning in the Dutch vocational education system : Reforms enacted (Professional and …

In this chapter competence-based education is studied with respect to the curriculum. It offers a review of what competence-based education entails; from the design of a competence-based curriculum (intended), to the interpretations of these curricula by stakeholders (implemented), and the actual outcomes …

This chapter analyses the way vocational education in the Netherlands deals with the issue of positioning the knowledge base of occupations in educational programmes. In: Bruijn, E., Billett, S., & Onstenk, J. (Eds.). (2017). Enhancing teaching and learning in the Dutch vocational education system : …

This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals. Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable …