The valuable professional and the three pillars of honours education. With the Windesheim Honours College, Windesheim established a multidisciplinary and challenging HBO+ degree programme for socially engaged, talented and motivated students with diverse backgrounds. A vital characteristic of the WHC …

SharePeople is a partly subsidized organization in Utrecht which connects social entrepreneurs in developing countries with experts from companies in Europe. The organization is in need of a new branding strategy in order to increase sales and therefore the research question for this thesis is; "What …

In the European policies to increase the quality of teachers, much attention is given to the upgrading of qualifications. However, in European debates on teacher education, e.g. within the context of the Education & Training 2020 program, discussions about the qualification level are mostly restricted …

This text is structured as follows. Section 1 concerns the background to this public lecture: the fact that social participation is becoming increasingly important in our society. This is evident, for example, from the way we are evolving from a protective welfare state into an activational, participative …

Touching happens fewer and fewer by the results of the automation and industrialization (Sluijter, 2002). For some reason, touching is not as usual as it has been in former times. Nowadays, touching became a taboo, especially the growing publicity and the influences of the media upon it, makes that touching …

It goes without saying that studies in evidence-based medicine should lead to clear and convincing evidence of the effectiveness of treatments. But can this approach be extrapolated to other research areas; for instance, where medicine connects with other scientific disciplines, such as hospital architecture? …