Highlights−Constitutional freedom of education affects democratic citizenship education policy.−Citizenship education legislation in 2006 and 2007 placed little demands on schools.−Legislation introduced in 2021 has further specified what is expected from schools.−Studies of citizenship education in …

Using game-based learning (GBL) has a proven potential to be an effective didactical method but it is not easy to implement in practice. Teachers find e.g. difficult to match a particular game dynamics and the curricular goals or to connect with the pedagogical models of particular games. In order to …

Als docent Duits was Paul Halma betrokken bij het driejarige NRO-onderzoek Doeltaal Digitaal. In dit onderzoek leidde hij verschillende professionele leergemeenschappen waarin talendocenten van meerdere scholen werden getraind chattaken te ontwerpen en uit te voeren in de klas. In deze blog beschrijft …

Vermindering van lestijd is mogelijk, mits de vrijgekomen tijd gebruikt wordt om heel gericht na te denken over de kwaliteit van lessen en hoe daarbij inzichten over effectieve leerstrategieën ingezet kunnen worden.

Infants attend daycare at an early age, which raises questions about children's sensitivity to the childcare environment and the role of different temperamental traits in their development in the early years. In a two-year longitudinal study with parent- and caregiver-reported data for Dutch children …

Despite the increase in entrepreneurship initiatives and interventions, there is a poor understanding of entrepreneurship programs’ principles and learning objectives in secondary education. This study provides insight into the current range of entre‑ preneurship programs and their underlying pedagogy …

In de Werkplaats Onderwijsonderzoek Amsterdam (WOA) voeren scholen en opleidings- en kennisinstellingen sinds 2017 samen onderzoek uit dat moet bijdragen aan de professionalisering van docenten en aan de kwaliteit van het Amsterdamse onderwijs, en dat bovendien input vormt voor de ontwikkeling van onderwijskundige …

Providing high-quality feedback is essential for improving preservice teacher performance. Rather than post-lesson feedback, immediate performance feedback while teaching is considered effective. This article reports on developing and piloting a standardised tool for synchronous feedback. Eight teacher …

Computational thinking (CT) has become a necessity in many professional domains. As such, scholars argue that the acquisition of CT and application should be embedded in existing school subjects. Within the CT literature, a tax-onomy distinguishes CT practices in STEM education into four categories: …

This paper presents three lesson activities for upper secondary education that focus on learning subject specific knowledge and general system thinking skills by creating a qualitative representation. The learning goals and the pedagogical approach are described.