Recent studies have identified that the teacher is the most important factor influencing the quality of education. Following this line of reasoning, it is likely to assume that the teacher educator is the most important factor influencing the quality of teacher education. Although many research studies …

"How can IDF communicate better and optimize their external communication to generate more free publicity?" Over the years IDF has given priority to focussing on their work rather than building up a strong image to the outside publics. So far, the communication strategy of the foundation with the target …

In deze bijdrage aan een themanummer van het blad Onderwijsvernieuwing MESOconsult) over masters gaat Marco Snoek in op de bijdrage die masteropleidingen kunnen leveren aan het ontwikkelen van brede professionaliteit (extended professionalism) van leraren.

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 …

Contemporary social work is subjected to ongoing questions in terms of its effectiveness and accountability. It appears to be problematic for social workers to defend themselves in a proper manner. When they do so, they often seem to rely primarily on a rhetoric of good intentions and are thus unable …

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This module of Professionalism in Patient Centred Acute Care Training (PACT) is part of an international multidisciplinary distance learning programme for intensive care training. Editor-in-chief: G. Ramsay Most trainees are involved in some sort of teaching and therefore fulfil trainee and trainer …

Dit paper is gepresenteerd op de slotbijeenkomst van het EU-Comenius project 'A School for All', waarvan Fontys OSO voorzitter was, op 19 mei 2006 in Tilburg. Hierin wordt, vanuit het perspectief van gelijkheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid, een profiel geschetst van de professionaliteitsopvatting (model …

Teacher education is in a state of change. There is a new focus on professional competence, including the competence for further development and learning, conceived of as workplace learning. Teacher shortages put pressure on the development of alternative routes to teaching. The arrival of prospective …

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