Mentoring dialogues play an important role in the supervision of prospective teachers. Mentor teachers have the dual role of guiding the students in the workplace and of stimulating students to reflect and learn from their teaching experiences. Does this happen in practice? This study describes the supervisory …

Purpose – To analyse common metaphors used in the intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management literatures to conceptualise knowledge, in order to study the nature of the intellectual capital concept. Design/methodology/approach – A textual analysis methodology is used to analyse texts from The …

The years between 1900 and 1930 have been a crucial period for the formation of large organizations in the Western world. Managers and scholars were searching for appropriate business models given the institutional setting. This model has impacted (and still does) the way we look at organizations and …

De leraar basisonderwijs van de toekomst zal naast kennisoverdracht ook sterk erop gericht zijn zijn of haar leerlingen op hun eigen ontwikkelingsniveau kennis te leren toepassen en problemen te leren oplossen. Daarvoor is een ander rollenrepertoire voor de leraar van belang geworden: relevante oefenmaterialen …

This relationship between external knowledge providers, e.g. consultants and academic institutions, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a difficult one. SME entrepreneurs think external advice is expensive, not required and/or not useful. In this paper these arguments are explored against the …

Debates about social theory and social policy are highly fragmented and unclear in subject and direction. A recognised paradigm is failing. Maybe we have to accept that social reality is not to reconstruct in social theory. But we certainly need social theorists and social theories to support citizens, …

Themanummer 'Dak- en thuislozen'. Overzien we de sociaal-wetenschappelijke benaderingen van onderzoekstudies naar dak- en thuisloosheid in Nederland en de accenten die daarin worden gelegd, dan blijkt dat de sociaal-psychologische benadering kan worden beschouwd als een dominant paradigma. Van een sociologische …

The gradual aging of western society during the twentieth century, including its causes and consequences, has become one of the dominant themes of demography and sociology. This study tries to shed more light on the recent past of older individuals emphasizing the socio-economic strategies they employed …

‘Op welke wijze kan ervoor gezorgd worden dat beide verpleegafdelingen longziekten van het Zuyderland tot een gedeelde organisatiecultuur komen’. Om uiteindelijk tot de conclusies en aanbevelingen te komen, zijn de huidige en de gewenste situatie in kaart gebracht. Dit is gedaan voor de organisatiecultuur …