This study focuses on students’ approaches to learning, particularly in innovative learning environments. A person-oriented research perspective was chosen to search for nuances and details that add to existing knowledge on secondary students’ learning. The relation between students’ goal orientations, …

In this study, a data feedback program to improve teachers’ science and technology (S&T) teaching skills was designed and tested. The aim was to understand whether and how the four design principles underlying this program stimulated the intended teacher support. We examined how teachers in different …

This study reports on a Professional Development Program (PDP) designed to raise teachers' subject specific language awareness (TSLA) as a relevant and specific element of their practical knowledge and improve their language integrated teaching behaviour. The design of the PDP was based on the interconnected …

Teacher professional identity is conceptualized in this chapter as a complex configuration of personal and contextual factors. Professional identity is also seen as dynamic and subject to change. This coloring of the concept leads here to a specific elaboration of research with regard to (student) teachers’ …

This study focuses on teachers’ group decision making during Dutch allocation meetings. A previous interview study showed that teachers question the objectivity of decisions due to negative interaction experiences and a lack of structure during these meetings. To characterize the structure and interaction …

This study focuses on the complexity and uniqueness of 45 beginning teachers’ professional identity, an important perspective that is usually not an explicit part of induction programmes. Data were collected in four workshops designed to support beginning teachers in reflecting on personal and contextual …

This study investigates subject teachers’ practical knowledge and teaching behaviour regarding integrated language teaching in the context of vocational education. The emphasis was on the nature of teachers’ subject-specific language awareness and how they enact this awareness in their teaching practice. …

Starten als lerarenopleider is complex. Het beroep van lerarenopleider is veelzijdig en iedere beginnende lerarenopleider heeft een andere achtergrond. Desondanks bevinden lerarenopleiders zich in een uitdagende en leerrijke context. Wat kan gezegd worden over het leren van beginnende lerarenopleiders …

In dit actieonderzoek staat de onderzoeksvraag: Op welke manier kan ik samen met mijn collega’s leerlingen van groep 4 op het gebied van rekenen meer eigenaarschap laten ervaren? In het theoretisch kader komt theorie aan bod rondom de kernbegrippen: eigenaarschap, zelfregulerend leren, zelfsturing, feedback, …