Volgens berekeningen van het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau kan zorgdomotica de collectieve lasten per Nederlander jaarlijks met maximaal € 6000 terugdringen bij een eenmalige investering van € 7500 per woning en een klein jaarlijks onderhoudsbudget. Thuiszorgorganisatie MiddenLand heeft daarom besloten …

Oscar Guermonprez is ruim veertig jaar actief geweest in het volkshogeschoolwerk. Hij stond aan de wieg van wat we nu ‘een leven lang leren’ en ‘participatie’ noemen. Hij was cursusleider en directeur van volkshogeschool Bergen. Hij behoort tot de grondleggers van het moderne vormings-, volksontwikkelings- …

The aim of this study is to clarify how pre-service teachers perceive mentor teachers' use of mentoring skills. Sixty stimulated-recall interviews were conducted, each in connection with a previously recorded mentoring dialogue. A quantitative analysis showed that six types of mentoring skills appeared …

The central goal of this study is to clarify to what degree former education and students' personal characteristics (the 'Big Five personality characteristics', personal orientations on learning and students' study approach) may predict study outcome (required credits and study continuance). Analysis …

Dit rapport is geschreven in opdracht van de gemeente Bergen. Het is een inrichtingsplan voor een dassencompensatiegebied tussen de dorpskernen Well en Aijen. Het maakt deel uit van het grotere plan Maaspark Well. Maaspark Well houdt in dat er een hoogwatergeul gegraven wordt tussen Well en Aijen, en …

The extent to which mentor teachers are able to address mentees' individual needs is an important factor in the success of mentoring. A two-dimensional model of mentor teacher roles in mentoring dialogues, entitled MERID, is explored empirically. Data regarding five aspects of mentoring dialogues were …

School-university research networks aim at closer integration of research and practice by means of teacher research. Such practice-oriented research can enhance teachers' professional knowledge development, and can benefit both schools and university. This paper reports on 21 participants of a school-university …

In the Netherlands only a small number of male students opt for primary school teaching and a relatively large percentage of them leave without graduating. A small-scale research project was set up to explore the question: Can gender-specific student factors be identified in relation to the initial teacher …

The main goal of the current study is to capture differential frequencies of mentor teachers' reflective moments, as indicators of different levels of consciousness in mentor teachers' use and acquisition of supervisory skills during mentoring dialogues. For each of the 30 participants, two mentoring …

In the context of developing mentor teachers' use of supervisory skills, two consecutive studies were conducted, using stimulated recall. Firstly, with eight participants, an instrument was developed to categorize contents of interactive cognitions. Secondly, with 30 participants, the instrument was …