Vocational teachers are expected to keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. In order to support their professional development effectively, we need to understand how vocational teachers learn, what they learn, and why they learn. This study characterises vocational teachers’ continuing …

In this study, a theory synthesis was conducted from a sociocultural perspective to specify the situated processes involved in teacher agency development in the dynamics of educational practices. Agency is closely related to teacher wellbeing and important for teachers to create situations that enable …

To provide high-quality education, teachers in vocational education are expected to keep their knowledge up to date. Vocational teachers’ knowledge includes both teaching knowledge and knowledge about the vocational practice teachers educate their students for. Research on teachers’ knowledge predominantly …

This study explores how teachers’ assessment literacy manifests within assessment practices in higher professional education. While assessment literacy is a multifaceted and dynamic construct, little is known about how it unfolds in practice. Showing how assessment literacy emerges and how its meaning …

In deze bijdrage beschrijven de auteurs de inzichten uit recent onderzoek naar professionalisering van ervaren mbo-docenten in hun dagelijkse werk. Specifiek hebben zij gekeken naar hoe, wat en waardoor docenten leren in hun dagelijkse werk. Dit onderzoek laat zien dat docenten verschillende professionele …

Second career teachers (SCT) are key role models in vocational education (VE) because they prepare students for the vocational practice they were part of, and they bring up-to-date vocational knowledge and skills into VE schools. Therefore, the early leaving of SCTs in VE is a problem, adding to the …

This study aims to map VE teachers’ perceived importance of assessment competence. The study was conducted in the Netherlands among teachers of professional studies in Universities of Applied Sciences. A large-scale study was conducted to represent a broad population of teachers, including various vocational …

In het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (mbo) zijn zij-instromers niet weg te denken. Het zijn vakmensen die rechtstreeks uit het beroepenveld komen waartoe wordt opgeleid. Hun waardevolle expertise verrijkt het beroepsonderwijs. Helaas is de overstap naar het onderwijs voor veel zij-instromers een flinke …

Teacher Agency in the Dynamics of Educational Practices: A Theory Synthesis. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 9, p. 1515123). Frontiers. A. Emans H. Oolbekkink-Marchand C. Bakker E. de Bruijn

Background: Both the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and daily life gait quality and quantity obtained from wearable sensors are used to measure functional status in older adults. It is generally assumed that they are interrelated and exchangeable, but this has not yet been established. Interchangeability …