Education for sustainable development (ESD) presents challenges to secondary science teachers. Characteristic aspects such as action-oriented teaching, stance-taking, interdisciplinary problem solving, and emotional and value-oriented teaching cause tensions for teachers accustomed to traditional science …

Technology curricula are evolving at a rate of perhaps no other school subject, as a result of innovations within technology itself and due to new visions about technology education, such as described in this book. Moreover, education as a whole is constantly reinventing itself in new societal contexts, …

The maker movement is increasingly finding its way into informal and formal educational settings. This chapter welcomes that trend and reflects on the cases in this book through five lenses, whereby informal and formal settings are contrasted. The first lens focuses on the development of a maker identity. …

Gedurende drie schooljaren is de implementatie van het praktijkgerichte programma ‘Technologie en Toepassing’ in de theoretische leerweg van het VMBO (T&T) onderzocht en ondersteund. Gebleken is dat T&T mogelijkheden schept om leerlingen voor techniek te interesseren en om de werelden van school en daarbuiten …

Over the past decade, the maker movement and in its slipstream maker education have attained worldwide popularity among educators, politicians, and the media. Makers’ enthusiasm for creative design and construction, using old and new tools has proven contagious, and is worth exploration and critical …

Bijdrage gepresenteerd op de Landelijke Werkconferentie Platform Taalgericht Vakonderwijs Berghotel, 6 december 2019

De natuurwetenschappelijke en technische vakken bedienen zich van hun eigen vaktaal, hetgeen uitdagingen voor leerlingen met zich meebrengt. Deze studie laat zien hoe vakdocenten daarop kunnen worden voorbereid in de lerarenopleiding. De gevolgde onderzoeksmethode is ‘ontwerpgericht …