One could write an alternative history of the Western modern arts as a struggle with industrialization. In this history, there would be almost no connection between classical fine art painting to the modern arts, but it would start with medieval craftsmanship, continue with the Arts & Crafts movement …

This project is about Amsterdam50 and discipleship. Amsterdam50 is an international, English-speaking church in the centre of Amsterdam. In this thesis project an answer will be given to the question how members of Amsterdam50 value the ways this church has been facilitating opportunities for them to …

The Moraine Retreat’ is a natural embeded retreat / visitors-center located on the moraine between Nijmegen (NL) and Kleve (DU). A place to contemplate on life, the location/ landscape and it’s history and culture. A visitors-center with more-day ‘retreatspaces’, offering an excape from the dayly life, …

This article describes experiences with a qualitative research project into teachers’ learning from innovating their own educational practices. Decades of New Public Management (NPM) in the Netherlands, with its top-down and businesslike approach to areas of public interest, obscured the learning and …

The Salvation Army has been battling social problems in the Netherlands for more than 125 years. Over the course of this period, the Dutch Salvation Army has developed into a well-known faith-based organization as well as an important professional social service provider. These two characteristics: religious …

Rian de Waal (1958-2011) has written a book about the piano, and how the development of piano playing has been very much dependent upon musicians who were able to cross borders. In Metamorphoses, the Art of the Virtuoso Piano Transcription, De Waal takes us on a journey through the capricious history …

This dissertation examines how European integration and Welsh devolution have affected the Welsh identity. Devolution and European integration are the most important institutional process to have affected Wales in the last 40 years. These political processes have caused shifts of power leading a rethinking …

In May 2011, Dutch students from the honors program in geosciences of Utrecht University, led by Professor Marca Wolfensberger, engaged in an experimental-learning project in Paris, France, with a group of American students from the honors program of Columbia College, South Carolina, led by Professors …

The topic of the Irish Literary Revival has been a popular one for many decades. In this study the subject is approached from the perspective of the writers. What were they trying to achieve: were they after political gain in a struggle towards a free and independent Ireland or were they an elite group …

Hunkemöller is a global multi-channel retailer specialist in lingerie for women. With the headquarter in the Netherlands provides the company lingerie in 14 countries. The value of Hunkemöller is providing fashionable products at an affordable price. The Dutch company already implemented the mission …