Although most authors on Information Literacy do not really differ in their definitions of the information literacy concept, phenomenographic research makes clear that in the context of education at least two different conceptions can be distinguished: an “Information Problem Solving” conception and …

Statelessness is a global issue that affects more than 12 million people around the world. Based on the United Nations (UN) estimates, the Council of Europe (CoE) has identified the number of stateless persons in Europe to be at least 680,000. Despite the above figures, statelessness remains a relatively …

Global citizens in the virtual classroom. Presentation, IPUE, Groningen 18-19 november 2013.

Designing an honours course for global citizenship.

Local governments are increasingly looking for new ways to involve citizens in policy and decision-making, for example by combining public sector data sources with data gathered by citizens. Several examples exist of data gathering where personal mobile devices act as data collectors. While these efforts …

http://cts.som.surrey.ac.uk/publication/lets-say-goodbye-the-moralising-practices-of-gap-year-organisations-in-the-netherlands/wppa_open/Responding to the growing appeal of the gap year amongst young people, thehigher education sector, governmental institutions and, perhaps foremost, the tourismindustry …

Global citizenship by design. Presentation Lilly Conference College en University Teaching and Learning. Bethesda Maryland USA 1 juni 2013.

Ideas about people with disabilities have evolved dramatically since the 1950s – from individuals ‘suffering from illness’ and dependent on others, to today’s credo stressing participation and social inclusion. People with a disability are considered to have capacities and bear responsibility to achieve …

Audience studies is not the vibrant field it was in its 1980s and early 1990s heyday. Cultural studies today has a more balanced interest in production, audiences and texts. A renewed focus in audience studies on everyday meaning production, identity and relations of power could benefit from recent developments. …