In our modern society, self-reflection is valued as an important tool to work on a positive and lasting self-identity and to find and define our own path in life. Self-reflection can be seen as the fruit of the scientific approach, which has taught us to divide reality into subject and object. The reflecting …

CONCORDIA - the greatest level of craftsmanshipThe transformation of a former textile factory into a University of Craft with the ambition for a improvement strategy of a small Polish town, Bolesławiec. INTRODUCTION We are citizens of the world, we travel long distances and seek new advantures. But …

Dit onderzoek komt voort uit een rapport van Hogeschool Leiden dat stelt dat de voorlichting naar studiezoekers realistischer moet zijn om ze een gefundeerde keuze te kunnen laten maken. Dit vormt aanleiding voor de centrale vraag: “Hoe krijgt Hogeschool Leiden haar identiteit in lijn met het imago dat …

Doordat Team Intro een nieuw concept is gestart, presenteert de organisatie zich in de markt nu anders dan voorheen. De nieuwe omgevormde identiteit is uitgewerkt om aantrekkelijker te zijn in de uitzendmarkt. Het “wij-gevoel” vormt de kern van Team Intro’s identiteit. De organisatie wil de nieuwe identiteit …

Teachers in arts education frequently struggle with their professional identity (Hatfield, Montana & Deffenbaugh, 2006; Welch, Purves, Hargreaves & Marshall, 2011). Am I an artist? A performer? A teacher? When probed about the reasons for this confusion, arts teachers …

Taxi companies have been delivering booking apps in response to passengers’ raising expectations of being able to choose an affordable cab, when and where he or she desires. YourDriverApp is a new white label application developed by taxiID that is set to provide such booking apps to companies worldwide. …

Higher education is tasked with preparing students for a culturally diverse and globalizing world. Additionally, western nations have an increasingly diverse student population and know the success of their students will depend in part on being able to navigate diversity. There is therefore good reason …

In our work as lecturers, teachers, researchers, coaches or managers in a university of applied sciences, we do feel that the amount and variety of societal challenges on higher vocational education (HVE) is growing. Institutions in HE are in a process of transforming from traditional ‘either or’ research …

This qualitative research, carried out between 2012 and 2016 at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) in the Netherlands, explores the experiences of newly-started Turkish-Dutch and Moroccan-Dutch female professionals in social work. The key research question was how these professionals perceive …

Die Auswirkung der Occupational Transition Coming-Out von homosexuellen Menschen auf die Occupational Identity wurde bislang wenig untersucht. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll zum Verständnis beitragen, wie Betätigungen die Identitätsanpassung während der Transition Coming-Out unterstützen und begleiten …