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As a practitioner, a manager and a scientist in social work for 40 years, I am still intrigued by the social work positioning and legitimating processes. Its recognition by users and financiers is often diffuse and its fragmentation sometimes hinders effective interventions. In social work itself, …

In our professorship 'Learning Strategies' of the Fontys Secondary Teacher Training College Tilburg, we stress the importance of practitioner research for the professional development of teachers. To investigate our own beliefs, we started a project in which teachers learned to do practitioner research …

De theorie-praktijk kloof is al menige jaren onderwerp van discussie zowel in de literatuur als op de werkvloer, in Nederland en in het buitenland. Sinds het beëindigen van de in-service opleiding voor verpleegkundigen in de jaren '90 lijkt de discussie alleen maar toegenomen te zijn. Met het herontwerpen …