The changes that have taken place in higher education in the last decade, such as output-based funding, global competition, and the marketization of higher education, call for a re-focus on the establishment of bonds between students and their educational institution. Previous studies have emphasized …

In this chapter, we propose that the democracy we wish to see out in the world is influenced by the quality of our own “inner democracies”—that is: the quality of the democracies among and between the selves or voices in the landscape of the self. We must find ways out of the I-prisons we experience …

1. Het leraarschap in de westerse wereld staat onder druk vanwege het grote accent op efficiëntie en effectiviteit. De gerichtheid op waarden en ‘hogere orde’ onderwijsdoelen vermindert. Tijd en ruimte voor reflectie op het christelijk karakter van het leraarschap is schaars. Er is nood aan nieuw elan …

Present study focuses on revealing and developing personal constructs regarding problem behaviour in classrooms. The main idea is that teachers’ opinions about their students and themselves influence the way they interact with them. Their thoughts and ideas about students - their personal constructs …