Many studies have suggested that personal practical knowledge is essential for professional development. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the importance of teacher educators’ personal practical knowledge of ‘language’ for student learning development. However, the need for teacher educators …

From the article: "The goal of higher professional education is to enable students to develop into reflective practitioners, having both a firm theoretical knowledge base as well as appropriate, professional attitudes and skills. Learning at the workplace is crucial in professional education, because …

In years past, there has not been a consistent or coordinated “opening” for summer professional development opportunities. This year our goal is to advertise the following summer’s offerings at the annual conference so we can get logistics in front of a wider audience, and they can plan ahead while they …

In het voorjaar van 2017 startten SKSG en obs De Feniks in Groningen het project Taalatelier, dat een vervolg kreeg in schooljaar 2017-2018. Pedagogisch medewerkers (verder: pm’ers) Rene Liet en Manon Jongsma van SKSG ontvingen op woensdag- en vrijdagmiddag een groep kinderen uit groep 4-5 om motiverende …

Met de officiële installatie van dr. K.J. Noorman als lector energietransitie begon hij met een reeks nieuwe uitdagingen. In zijn rede op die betreffende dag deelde hij zijn motivaties, intenties en mogelijkheden die hij binnen het Centre of Expertise ziet in het kader van Energietransitie.

Rede gehouden tijdens de lectorinstallatie van Dr. C.J. Wiekens.

In The Netherlands, workplace learning consists of 40% of initial teacher education. The main activities in workplace learning are the training of teaching skills and assignments for the teacher education institution and school. But five Professional Development Schools (PDS) we – teacher educators at …

A boundary is a metaphor for an experience of discontinuity wherein a socio-cultural difference is perceived as a challenge or obstacle in action or interaction. This case study explores eight student teachers’ perceptions of boundaries during an international teaching internship to identify where experiences …

This article focuses on the increased relevance and urgency to pay explicit attention to complexity-informed perspectives on real-world issues in Dutch higher professional education. Moreover, it describes lessons learned from experiments with so-called Embedded Complexity Workshops. These workshops, …