The attention for teacher educators as professionals and their professional development is indeed increasing. While much of the attention has been directed to novice teacher educators little has been paid to experienced teacher educators and their particular developmental activities. This paper presents …

This chapter proposes an integrated perspective on institutional work as ingenious actions of entrepreneurs for the purpose of opportunity development. Ingenuity refers to actions undertaken by entrepreneurs who work within ‘the institutional setting and uses this embeddedness by co-opting, coordinating, …

For already many years the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is a complicated situation. Despite all the efforts to come to a peace agreement, a solution has not been found yet. The land that is now called ‘Israel’ is and has been very important for different reasons; economical, strategic and religious. Many …

De afgelopen vier jaar heeft Johan Bijzen samen met leerkrachten en leerlingen van een groene vmbo-schoolonderzoek gedaan naar de manieren waarop je leren leren kunt stimuleren. Wat kunnenleerlingen, in relatietot ‘leren te leren’, in de praktijk met de principes van gemedieerd leren. Dat is de methode …

In Galaten bestrijdt Paulus waarschijnlijk joods-christelijke predikers die zowel Paulus’ apostelschap als zijn evangelie aanvielen. Zij hadden de Galaten verkondigd dat het noodzakelijk was voor hun behoud en om bij Gods volk te horen dat zij de joodse wet gingen gehoorzamen door besnijdenis, sabbatsobservantie …

The Turkish Republic has a great history with major defeats and victories in its past. Since the fourteenth century Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire. During the following centuries, the Empire expanded and covered areas which are nowadays known as Europe, Asia and North Africa. The twentieth century …

Teachers in Europe are educated in a wide variety of institutes and by a wide range of curriculum models. The main aim of teacher education is the same throughout Europe – the education of teachers – but the underlying ideas and the contexts differ, leading to significant differences between teacher education …

In order to prevent conflicts and escalation, the United Nations works with a so called Conflict Management system. With this system, the UN aims to prevent the outbreak of conflicts. Besides, Conflict Management makes is possible to bring permanent peace to a conflict area by addressing root causes …