For me the concept of the teacher educator as a agent of social change, implies that teacher educators should be focused on stimulating change and improvement in teacher education, schools and society. That focus should not only shape our teaching of student teachers, but also our research activities. …

Overall the research integration in higher education is considered meaningful. It has also been argued that the inclusion of students in research through the curriculum differs between disciplines. Students of ‘hard’ disciplines are supposed to gain more seniority before the research discipline includes …

Data on which the manuscript was accepted: Reference: Snijders, I., Rikers, R. M. M., Wijnia, L., and Loyens, S. M. M., “Relationship Quality Time: The validation of a relationship quality scale in higher education”. Manuscript submitted for publication on 5 November 2016 at the journal of Higher Education …

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity, and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. Despite the options of tele-working, tele-trading and tele-amusing, that allow people to participate in ever …

In product design engineering education, classes in engineering mechanics are often difficult, unrewarding and unsatisfying for both students and lecturers. Within the Product Design Engineering program at Rotterdam University of Applied Science, a new approach has been developed and tested, leading …

AANLEIDING. Medicatiefouten worden nog veel gemaakt, vooral het uitzetten en toedienen van de medicatie is risicovol. Een recent ontwikkelde richtlijn voor medicatieveiligheid is de ‘Veilige principes in de medicatieketen’. Een van de veilige principes is het toedienen en registreren van de medicatie, …

Aanleiding In Nederland is de perinatale sterfte hoog in vergelijking met andere Europese landen. Zwangeren van met een lage sociaaleconomische status lopen meer risico op ongunstige zwangerschapsuitkomsten. Een mogelijke oplossing is CenteringPregnancy®. Hierbij wordt prenatale zorg voor een groot gedeelte …

Even though women participate actively in the agricultural sector, they are underrepresented in agricultural education and extension in Afghanistan. This is also seen at NAEC, where the number of female students remains very low and as a consequence limited female teachers are available for the AHS. …