This study describes higher education-based teacher educators' professional trajectories, i.e. their professional activities and learning as developed throughout their career. Semi-structured interviews were held with 41 teacher educators from Ireland, Israel, Norway and the Netherlands. Findings show …

In the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, the field of internationalisation of higher education is in rapid transition. Worldwide, academic mobility has been rapidly increasing over the past two decades {Knight, 2020). However, the current traveling restrictions have limited the possibilities for physical …

In a workshop entitled ‘Harnessing the Hustle’, held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) in April 2017, a group of academic researchers and community activists came together to discuss a concept that resonated across ethnographic findings and everyday life alike: hustling. For many of us …

Sommige ouders krijgen in hun leven te maken met een opeenstapeling van omstandigheden die hun welbevinden negatief beïnvloeden, zoals schulden, gezondheidsproblemen en werkloosheid. Het kan voor deze ouders lastig zijn om te focussen op opvoeden. Zij kunnen profiteren van groepsgerichte opvoedingsondersteuning: …

Deze studie beoogt een aanvulling te zijn op het onderzoek naar compositie in Nederland door de blik van authentiek kunstonderwijs (Haanstra, 2001; 2011). Het onderzoek is gericht op de mogelijkheden en moeilijkheden die leerlingen en leerkrachten ondervinden als ze in aanraking komen met Authentiek …

Most professionalisation programmes to support teacher educators as research supervisors focus on the development of research skills. The methodology of practice-oriented research, in addition to a clear vision on the function, and purpose of student research often receives little attention. At the Amsterdam …

Foreword to the book International Perspectives on Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Portals into Innovative Classroom Practice which focuses on key sources for teacher well-being like ownership, meaningfulness, self-efficacy, agency and autonomy. The book is based on inspiring cases from a variety of …

Dutch secondary school pupils seldom speak the foreign language in class, citing anxiety as a primary factor (Haijma, 2013). Implementing improvisational drama techniques (IDTs), however, could help ameliorate this situation by generating positive affective reactions, such as confidence and joy, and …

Although self-regulation is an important feature related to students’ study success as reflected in higher grades and less academic course delay, little is known about the role of self- regulation in blended learning environments in higher education. For this review, we analysed 21 studies in which self-regulation …

This chapter presents event diagrams as a representational tool that allows students to visualize relativistic phenomena. It puts particular emphasis on thought experiments that can help students obtain a deeper understanding of physical phenomena that are hard to imagine. The chapter is intended for …