Residential youth care settings should provide youth with safe environments where they are supported and treated. However, there are aspects of residential youth care that threaten its effectiveness, and which may also violate children’s rights. Staff members exercise power over the youth, which can …

Op 1 november van het vorig jaar vierde de Nederlandse kinderfilosofie haar 25-jarige aanwezigheid in ons land. Dat was reden voor een studiedag in de Universiteit voor Humanistiek. Zo’n honderd betrokkenen verzamelden zich, om elkaar te feliciteren, maar ook om elkaar vragen te stellen: moeten we zo …

Baarts presentiebenadering is even inspirerend voor de professionele beroepspraktijk als problematisch in haar theoretische grondslagen. In deze benadering bestaat een fundamentele morele spanning tussen gebroken waardigheid als het kernprobleem van armoede en het goede leven als de overkoepelende …

This article examines environmental ethics theories focused on the division between “anthropocentric” and “ecocentric” approaches in regard to three valuebases for environmental concern: self-interest, humanistic altruism, and biospheric altruism. The author argues that while applied anthropologists …

The use of the word “social” in the context of information technology goes back to the very beginnings of cybernetics. It later pops up in the 1980s context of “groupware.” The recent materialist school of Friedrich Kittler and others dismissed the use of the word “social” as irrelevant fluff – what …

The level of work engagement is an important aspect of organizational culture. In this empirical study the relation between engagement and experienced professionalism of probation officers is investigated. Starting from ideal-typical theories on professionalism, a psychometric instrument for measuring …

Prusso-German officer training has always been a combination of practice and theory. In contras tto the pure Cadets Academy education of other nations, the Prusso-German aspirant officer for centuries has first learned the practical soldiering of his arm or service on all levels before enriching these …