The first presentation is based on a secondary analysis on a dataset containing more than 10.000 responses of teachers in three educational domains (primary, secondary en vocational education). The following questions will be answered: 'How do teachers think about learning together in order to develop …

This article focuses on which aspects of the learning environment, aimed at fostering career learning, correspond with the development of career competencies among students (aged 12-19 years) enrolled in prevocational and secondary vocational education in The Netherlands. Aspects of the learning environment …

This study analyses the dilemmas and practical problems in implementing competence-based vocational education through 11 case studies. Schools seem to meet various fundamental issues, but it remains difficult in what way the acquisition and use of a way of knowing and thinking that is based on vocational …

As all professionals, teacher educators are expected to develop themselves continuously during their working life in order to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. Smith (2003, p203) distinguishes three reasons for teacher educators to develop themselves: 1) to improve the profession (teacher education); …

This article displays a quasi-experimental case-study into how vocational educators stimulate the development of students' PPTs. No differences were found between the contingent modeling condition and the student condition concerning the development of PPTs. The two vocational domains did show differences. …

This article presents teachers' adjustments to the CCBE (comprehensive competence-based) model in order to create a valid instrument that assess the 'competentiveness' of study programmes. It shows that the revised model indeed has good content validity and provides a solid instrument to position study …

This article provides a construct to monitor and analyse students' personal knowledge development: 'personal professional theory' (PPT). It aims to investigate the development of the content and nature of students' PPTs and their perceptions of learning processes in vocational education during school-based …

This article compares two strategies the detect development in PPT (personal professional theories): CM (concept mapping) and a combination of CM with SR (stimulated recall). The study reveals that both strategies succeed, but that the CM in the combined strategy performed worse. The article ends with …

Learning processes towards the integration of knowledge, skills and attitudes are currently still a mystery. In this article, three integration processes are developed: low-road integration, high-road integration and transformative integration. It also lays a basis for further empirical research by offering …

De van oorsprong Keniaanse Lornah Kiplagat is opdrachtgever van dit bijzondere project. Samen met haar man en trainer Pieter Langerhorst, komen zij op voor de vrouwen in Kenia en willen zij onderwijs aanbieden en kansen geven voor de toekomst. Zij zijn bezig om een sportcampus op te zett en nabij de …