When learning must contribute to resilience, and community cocreative learning ismore effective than direct instruction. This position paper draws on Hannah Arendt’s VitaActiva: Labor, Work, and Speech and Action. Labor is about meeting basic needs and creating a ‘home’ where life is good. Work concerns …

Tekstloze prentenboeken bevatten geen gedrukte tekst, een verhaal wordt uitsluitend door middel van illustraties overgebracht. Professionals zijn niet altijd overtuigd van het nut van tekstloze prentenboeken, en tekstloze prentenboeken voor de ontwikkeling van kinderen te onderzoeken, en 2) een overzicht …

The revolutionary dimension of technological developments is all too often placed in the foreground, painting a picture of a future we can hardly imagine, let alone perceive. This book emphasises the evolutionary dimension of developments, and how we take small steps. How certain underlying, invariable …

Smart glasses have the potential to transform healthcare, but their acceptance and use are under pressure due to concerns about social interaction around smart glasses, such as privacy, intended use, and the social isolation of the user. However, the value is seen in healthcare, where they could potentially …

The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to different manifestations of news avoidance, and consequently different implications. However, so far less …

In this Smart Forests Radio episode in conversation with tree-ring researcher Ute Sass Klaassen at Van Hall Larenstein and Wageningen University & Research, and multi-species geographer Clemens Driessen at Wageningen University & Research. Their research illustrates different more-than-human approaches …

COVID-19 has complicated grieving experiences. Rich qualitative description of these experiences is lacking. We interviewed 10 bereaved relatives (mainly daughters) 2–3 times each: shortly after their relative died in the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and after 12 and 18 months (29 interviews in total). …

Introduction: Aging with a childhood-onset disability, such as cerebral palsy (CP), spina bifida (SB), and muscular diseases (MD), comes along with significant impairments and comorbidities. Despite the increasing evidence an overall picture is lacking. This study aimed to review the literature about …

De aansluiting tussen kinderopvang in de voorschoolse periode en de start van de basisschool is verschillend vorm gegeven in diverse landen. Nederland kent een ‘split system’, maar op enkele plekken is er sprake van structurele toenadering tussen de voorschoolse en schoolse sector. De peuter-kleuter-groep, …

Despite the diplomatic activities and efforts between China and the EU, the news coverage generally paints a murky picture of the China-EU bilateral relations.