Change agent capacity-building compendium.Due to increasing globalization, technological advances and sociological changes, the world is becoming more complex than ever. Complexity has gone from large systems, to organizational and individual levels. Today it concerns all aspects of society. The will …

Promoting Healthy Ageing, and specifically an Active & Healthy Lifestyle, is one of the biggest societal and economic challenges the EU is facing. A paradigm shift from health care and cure to prevention is essential since the traditional ways have proven to be insufficient to solve this complex problem. …

A brief presentation on the implications of conducting an ethnographic research situated in one's own learning community

Binnen het HagaZiekenhuis leren verpleegkundigen en studenten gezamenlijk in de Learning Community (LC) Longziekten kritisch hun praktijk te onderzoeken. Kritisch en onderzoekend zijn, verlangt een stimulerende vragende omgeving en het stellen van hogere denkvragen. Dit onderzoek bestudeerde welke community-factoren, …

In our recently started multiple case study - funded by the Netherlands Scientific Board (NWO) - on these processes of collaboration, we focused on the dynamics in growing partnerships between citizens, community social workers and civil servants. Three cases of social neighbourhood initiatives are presented …

This case study focuses on the experienced value, operative elements and tensions of the intervention Local support agency LFB. Supported by a coach and a training program people with mild intellectual disability (ID) are working as and being trained to be peer experts in the local community. This qualitative …

De opleiding Verpleegkunde van De Haagse Hogeschool heeft op basis van onderzoek de Learning Community Ster ontwikkeld; een methode voor gezamenlijke beeldvorming over doelen, opbrengsten en leercultuur bij het opzetten van een learning community. Naast ontwerpcriteria gaat het ook om inhoudelijke en …

Background In 2015, Amsterdam became part of the WHO Age Friendly City community, thereby accepting the responsibility to work towards a more age friendly Amsterdam. To study senior citizens’ needs and wishes concerning the age friendliness of their neighbourhood, the municipality asked the Amsterdam …

Learning in professional networks is gaining popularity in teachers’ professional development. To study how teachers evaluated their networks, we developed a questionnaire called the ‘network barometer’ to inquire functioning according to three dimensions based on communities of practice theory: domain, …

This formative study introduces DojoIBL, a web-based platform to support collaborative inquiry-based learning processes. By supporting communication and collaboration with new technological affordances, DojoIBL aims at nurturing communities of inquiry. The study elaborates on the theoretical underpinning …