In our recently started multiple case study - funded by the Netherlands Scientific Board (NWO) - on these processes of collaboration, we focused on the dynamics in growing partnerships between citizens, community social workers and civil servants. Three cases of social neighbourhood initiatives are presented …

In het nieuwste nummer van de Nieuwe Meso, het vakblad voor bestuurders en schoolleiders in het basis, voortgezet en middelbaar beroepsonderwijs is het Focus-deel dit keer gewijd aan het opleiden van leraren. De gastredactie bestaande uit HvA-lector Marco Snoek, Fontys-lector Quinta Kools en de DNM-redacteuren …

In order to be able to integrate ICT into Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE), teachers need much time and support for mastering ICT tools, learning the basis of IBSE, and getting experience in applying these tools in pupil investigations. For this purpose, we have developed a course within the teacher …

Situated learning plays a key role in internships and other practice-based learning settings in teacher education. The dominant assumption for a long time has been that the development of teaching competency is advanced most through practical teaching experience and post-lesson conferences between mentor …

Samenvatting Het OPDC waar dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd, heeft een grote groep taalzwakke leerlingen (ca. 77%). Het doel van dit onderzoek is om een beeld te krijgen hoe taalzwakke leerlingen de lessen ervaren, wat zij nodig hebben en hoe docenten hun onderwijsaanbod daarop kunnen afstemmen. De onderzoeksvraag …

Creating environments in physical education (PE) that foster perceived competence and physical activity during gender-mixed game play lessons is a challenge, especially with adolescent girls. This study is a small experiment in one PE lesson that aimed to increase the perceived competence and in-class …

De pedagogische proefpraktijk is een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Christelijke school Ede (CHE) en het werkveld. Door middel van dit PPP-model wordt vormgegeven aan een professionele leergemeenschap. Leraren van diverse scholen van schoolvereniging CNS putten komen samen om meer te leren over over …

Nowadays many schools are innovating and often do so by purchasing new electronic school boards. My training school did this as well. They bought several ActivBoards to modernize the school and its way of teaching. The only problem was that many teachers did not know how to use it and the school was …

This study investigates what pupils aged 10-12 can learn from working with robots, assuming that understanding robotics is a sign of technological literacy. We conducted cognitive and conceptual analysis to develop a frame of reference for determining pupils' understanding of robotics. Four perspectives …

Introduction: Youth activity guideline compliance is generally low across most western countries and Dutch youth are no exception to this. Thirty-two percent of 4-11 year old boys and girls, and 15% of 12-17 year olds are currently meeting the physical activity (PA) guideline recommendations of one hour …