Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly called upon to both respond to and drive societal change. To better understand how HEIs can enhance their ability to innovate, an integrative literature review was conducted, examining the concept of innovative capacity. Key resources, such as social …

Pedagogical approaches often assume fixed ontological positions, such as teacher-centered, curriculum-centered, child-centered, or world-centered perspectives, which tend to overlook the complexity of educational practice. These approaches limit educators’ ability to adaptively shift between diverse …

This article reports on a literature review on empirical research investigating learning for vocations in the context of vocational education. We included 36 studies in which learning for vocations is empirically studied. Learning for vocations is characterised based upon prevalent research traditions …

Game-based learning (GBL) and gamification can improve the learning experience of students by making learning more fun, interesting, and motivating. However, integrating games in practice is challenging for many teachers as it requires competences that not necessarily are part of their teaching repertoire. …

Het succes van onderwijsinnovaties wordt mede bepaald door het vrijkomen van veranderenergie. Onderwijskundig leiders spelen hierin een belangrijke rol en hanteren daarbij een vijftal leiderschapsdimensies. Het doel van dit onderzoek is inzicht verkrijgen in de manier waarop onderwijskundig leiders de …

Educational change often fails due to its complexity: differing, even contradictory factors, agents, goals, norms or beliefs are involved. Too often practitioners, researchers and educators try to reduce or even ignore tensions, paradoxes and uncertainties and search for clear procedures and the one …

Het succes van onderwijsinnovaties wordt medebepaald door het vrijkomen van veranderenergie. Onderwijskundig leiders spelen hierin een belangrijke rol en hanteren daarbij een vijftal leiderschapsdimensies. Het doel van dit onderzoek is inzicht verkrijgen in de manier waarop onderwijskundig leiders de …

Evidence-informed change (EIC) has gained attention recently because it is seen as a lever to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of educational change. Important questions are: how is EIC conceptualized, what counts as evidence, and what factors can support EIC in practice? Because of the complexity …

Leaders play an important role in creating suitable conditions for and leading change, and leadership is most effective when it is needed most, such as during disruptive change. We used the disruption caused by the pandemic as a case to study how school leaders responded, starting from the framework …

Hoe zorg je ervoor dat complexe veranderingen in het onderwijs slagen? Prof. dr. Kristin Vanlommel doet hier onderzoek naar. Volgens haar begint duurzaam, evidence-informed veranderen met een sterke visie op goed onderwijs. Ook is het cruciaal om aandacht te hebben voor de cultuur in de school en “het …