In order to meet the challenges of rapidly changing cultural life in the twenty-first century, professional musicians need to be lifelong learners, drawing on a wide range of knowledge and skills. To be succesful in a variety of roles, they require a reflective and responsive attitude to change. This …

Community Music presents a contested field. Cultural policy has had a hard time dealing with community music because aesthetic intentions, social objectives and economic motivations may all play a role for actors and sometimes clash. This chapter provides a scheme of the basic tensions inherent to community …

Videos can enrich the learning environment in a variety of ways, adding value to the learning process. Using videos brings benefits not only to students but also to you as the lecturer. The Research Group Teaching, Learning & Technology conducts research into the use of video in the learning processes. …

The growth in urban population and economic upturn is leading to higher demand for construction, repair and renovation works in cities. Houses, public utilities, retail spaces, offices and infrastructure need to adapt to cope with the increasing number of residents and visitors, urban functions and changing …

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …

Mijn onderzoek is gericht op de individuele begeleiding van Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland, locatie ’s-Gravendeel. De individuele begeleiding is Vluchtverhaalanalyse, een methode waarmee medewerkers van Vluchtelingenwerk het asielrelaas van de vluchteling analyseren ter ondersteuning van de asielprocedure. …

Rationale: In 2016, a completely revised second version of the ‘Handbook Nutrition in Cancer’ (HNC, in Dutch) by the Dutch Dietitians Oncology Group (DDOG) was published. In this project, the DDOG evaluated similarities and potential discrepancies between DDOG recommendations and the ESPEN guidelines …

With only one in five secondary-school aged children attending secondary school, a quarter of teenaged girls being pregnant or already having a child (Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2012), and one out of every five people living below the poverty line in Uganda (CIA, 2013) statistics show the ever prevalent …

We present a description of our didactic approach to train undergraduate sign language interpreters on their interpersonal and reflective skills. Based pre-dominantly on the theory of role-space by Llewellyn-Jones and Lee (2014), we argue that dialogue settings require a dynamic role of the interpreter …

Part of: De Vries, M. (Ed.). (2017). Handbook of technology education (Springer international handbooks of education). Springer International Publishing.