This article reports on qualitative research among 48 social professionals, managers and policymakers and their perceptions of activating citizenship, social work roles and responsibilities, carried out in Utrecht and Tartu. Professionals from both countries agreed to the idea of activating citizenship …

This report serves as one of the two background documents for the HvA/UvA research proposal concerning cultural interventions in the process of urban regeneration in Krachtwijken in Amsterdam. The report at hand, based on a review of the international literature on art and regeneration, and on international …

The central question of this dissertation is what lessons can be learned from Surinam when it comes to the integration of immigrants. Surinam consists of five main population groups and to assess this process of integration this dissertation is structured by the following questions: What is integration …

Although minorities make up only 5-10% of the population in Europe, they receive a lot of negative attention in the media. Minorities are blamed for issues that range from a country's economic problems to cultural disharmony. As a result, the ethnic minorities feel as though they are on the outer edge …

The purpose of the paper is to start a dialogue about differences between Western and Eastern cultures in the way they conceptualize knowledge and discuss the implications of these differences for a global intellectual capital (IC) theory and practice. A systematic metaphor analysis of the concept of …

The contents of the thesis are summarised in the bullet points below: o Problem statement: Low attendance of the Cultural activities. o Hypothesis of the situation: Changes in Management (centralization) and failure to promote the cultural activities efficiently. o An in-depth analysis of the Cervantes …

Het debat over leefbaarheid wordt steeds vaker gekoppeld aan normen en waarden, aan respect. Daarmee lijkt het terrein van activiteiten waar de overheid zich mee inlaat te groeien, ondanks veelvuldige verwijzing naar eigen verantwoordelijkheid. In deze tekst wordt gekeken hoe de (lokale) overheid omgaat …

The objective of this study is to illuminate the effects of intensive aid on the self-reliance and independence of single mothers, and to show what is and what can be done to improve the empowerment of this group. Firstly the paper focuses on the effects of intensive social aid on the self-reliance and …

Learning theories broadly characterised as constructivist, agree on the importance to learning of the environment, but differ on what exactly it is that constitutes this importance. Accordingly, they also differ on the educational consequences to be drawn from the theoretical perspective. Cognitive constructivism …