The field of higher professional educational in the Netherlands is undergoing drastic structural changes. Organizational-wide mergers are commonplace and are often followed by development of new curricula. Furthermore, this is often accompanied by the implementation of a completely new educational concept …

This study focuses on revealing and developing personal constructs regarding problem behaviour in classrooms. Twenty-nine teachers (initial and in-service students) took part in the project. The main idea is that teachers’ opinions about their pupils and themselves influence the way they act in their …

Present study focuses on revealing and developing personal constructs regarding problem behaviour in classrooms. The main idea is that teachers’ opinions about their students and themselves influence the way they interact with them. Their thoughts and ideas about students - their personal constructs …

Non-formal music education is the field of music education outside the regular school curriculum, and delivered by music teachers / music leaders other than the teacher in the classroom. The main body of this research consists of case studies in the Netherlands. In addition there is a number of case …

Recente ontwikkelingen in de jeugdzorg op het gebied van professioneel handelen en verwetenschappelijking van de praktijk leggen teveel het accent bij professioneel handelen als het werken aan de hand van schriftelijk vastgestelde handelings- of zorgplannen. Hoewel het nut van handelingsplannen onomstreden …

Background to the problem Dutch society demonstrates a development which is apparent in many societies in the 21st century; it is becoming ethnically heterogeneous. This means that children who are secondlanguage speakers of Dutch are learning English, a core curriculum subject, through the medium of …

In dit artikel (in de vorm van een webessay) wordt allereerst aandacht besteed aan de opkomst van het fenomeen opvoedingsondersteuning,de intrede van de professional op dit gebied en de gevolgen van de veranderende samenstelling van het eigen netwerk van ouders bij het zoeken naar opvoedingsondersteuning. …

In dit artikel schetsen Marco Snoek, Willem van der Wolk en Jeannette den Ouden vier scenario’s voor de toekomst van de lerarenopleidingen in Nederland, naar aanleiding van een werkconferentie van de VELON over de toekomst van de lerarenopleidingen. De vier scenario’s zijn vorm gegeven aan de hand van …

In the past years teacher education colleges have started to offer more alternative routes to teaching in secondary education. The development is a response to teacher shortages but also to a change in thinking about teaching as a profession, professional learning and the school as site of learning. …

This article describes the design and findings of a case study involving seven groups of teachers at six schools for secondary education. The teachers tried to gain insight into their own practice and to improve their own practice by learning to do action research. They were facilitated by teacher educators …