In workshops digitaal componeren lijken basisschoolleerlingen de muzikale taal te kunnen leren gebruiken en daarmee hun muzikale creativiteit te kunnen ontwikkelen. Daarnaast lijken ze bij het componeren op de tablet ook op een intuïtieve manier gevoeligheid voor de onderliggende structuren in muziek …

Het gebruik van de mogelijkheden van ict als een van de bepalende ontwikkelingen binnen de samenleving als geheel en daarmee van strategisch belang voor de ontwikkeling van het onderwijs in scholen. Een scholengemeenschap voor voortgezet onderwijs heeft de ambitie om ict daar waar dit didactisch meerwaarde …

Sociocultural and dialogic theories of education have identified the need to integrate both pedagogical content and language knowledge into teachers’ professional development to promote effective interaction with students about subject content. In this intervention study, a meta-perspective on language …

In order for out-of-school science activities that take place during school hours but outside the school context to be successful, instructors must have sufficient pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to guarantee high-quality teaching and learning. We argue that PCK is a quality of the instructor-pupil …

Deze morgen vertelde mijn zoon dat over 100 jaar de mensheid is uitgestorven en hij maakte zich daar zorgen over. Onlangs kwamen wetenschappers met het bericht dat het ijs op de Noordpool nog nooit zo dun is geweest en dat er een toename is van Antarctisch zee-ijs. Dit zal binnen afzienbare tijd grote …

Explicit language objectives are included in the Swedish national curriculum for mathematics. The curriculum states that students should be given opportunities to develop the ability to formulate problems, use and analyse mathematical concepts and relationships between concepts, show and follow mathematical …

A study of the relation between teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge of reading and the quality of their subsequent classroom behaviour in teaching fluent reading.

Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether …

Ever since 1983 English has been obligatory at the Dutch Pedagogical Academy of Primary Education. However, it was not until late 2010 that the knowledge base for this curriculum was completed. Recent research has shown that the Dutch academies only offer a barely sufficient English curriculum to their …

Some pre-service teaching activities can contribute much to the learning of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and subsequent teaching as these activities are generating PCK within the pre-service teacher's own classroom. Three examples are described: preparing exhibitions of science experiments, assessing …