This study investigates subject teachers’ practical knowledge and teaching behaviour regarding integrated language teaching in the context of vocational education. The emphasis was on the nature of teachers’ subject-specific language awareness and how they enact this awareness in their teaching practice. …

Background: The support of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) rarely focused on motor activity, which might have negative consequences for the quality of life of these people. Evidence-based motor activity programs that present individually tailored and structural motor …

Worldwide, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic diseases and currently the fourth leading cause of mortality. The natural course of this progressive disease is interrupted by periods of symptom deterioration called exacerbations. Exacerbations accelerate the …

The European Migrant Crisis of 2015 has brought drastic challenges on national and European levels in regard to the reception of asylum seekers and in sharing responsibility among member states. Many eastern and southern member states, however, felt the necessity to cope with the consequences of the …

A topic of great social relevance in the current century is implementing innovative sustainable production processes. Globally waste management is one of the biggest sustainability challenges. With urbanization and a growing global population, the use of various products and discarding their waste has …

There is a dualism in current policy discourses on public health between neoliberal conceptions of health, and health as a product of social conditions. These conceptions also co-exist in the narratives of citizens. In this qualitative study carried out in the Netherlands, we analysed how people living …

In dit hoofdstuk worden communicatieve interventies over de energietransitie gepresenteerd, volgens het onderzoeksmodel Van A naar Duurzaamheid, dat de volgende stappen omvat: urgentie, bewustwording, actie & collectief handelen, maatschappelijk draagvlak en in dialoog met de samenleving. evenals diverse …

This graduation project provides a comprehensive investigation into the decline of the liveability of the UNESCO World Heritage city: Venice. It sheds light on the dichotomy between liveability and (over)tourism, and proposes a new perspective for Venice, which in the last 20 years has undergone a massive …

Although there has been an increased interest from academics on the topic of women in executive positions, a good proportion of the research focuses on justifying the need to have more women through financial (e.g. bottom line) and non-financial (e.g. corporate social responsibility reporting) reasonings. …

Background: Involvement of families in physiotherapy-related tasks of critically ill patients could be beneficial for both patients and their family. Before designing an intervention regarding family participation in the physiotherapy-related care of critically ill patients, there is a need to investigate the …