Playfulness intertwined with city-related themes, such as participatory planning and civic media are becoming more popular. In the last ten years, game designers have taken up the theme of play in relation to the urban environment. In this paper, we present a conceptual mapping of “urban play,” through …

In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents’ development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting …

Dit onderzoek sluit aan bij de discussie omtrent tweetalig basisonderwijs, waarbij gesteld wordt dat meer Engels leidt tot slechtere beheersing van de Nederlandse taal. Sinds 1986 behoort Engels tot het Nederlands basisonderwijs als verplicht vak. Hierin zijn drie soorten scholen te onderscheiden. Engels …

Op 1 Januari 2014 is er op 18 basisscholen een vijfjarige pilot tweetalig primair onderwijs (TPO) gestart. De basisscholen die meedoen aan de pilot TPO geven 30-50% van hun onderwijstijd in het Engels. Het Engelse onderwijs wordt aangeboden vanaf groep 1. Dit is een nieuwe vorm van Engels onderwijs op …

Artistic research is a relatively new form of research that makes use of the attitudes and methods of artists and designers during the research process. This simply implies that researchers work from a visual and associative perspective and have an open attitude that makes it possible for them to notice …

Dit artikel presenteert de rsultaten van een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de Cito Woordenschat en de Peabody Vocabulary Test III-NL(Peabody). Beide testen hebben als doel het meten van de respectieve woordenschat. Uit observatie blijkt dat meer kinderen beneden gemiddeld scoren op de Cito Woordenschat …

Indebted documents: Empirical research on the comprehensibility of the reminder and the court summons indebt collection cases. Every day, thousands of households receive documents concerning debt collection. Unsurprisingly, these documents have a great impact on the lives of many. Do these documents …

BACKGROUND: The quality standards of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care require monitoring of the satisfaction of patient's relatives with respect to care. Currently, no suitable instrument is available in the Netherlands to measure this. This study describes the development and psychometric evaluation …

The content of the book Volunteer Tourism is current and relevant in today’s tourism discussion about, citizenship, development and cosmopolitanism. The authors provide a vocabulary not only for tourism scholars but also for people interested in mobility and morality. The book frames volunteer tourism …