Liz is a CLIL and language teacher educator, senior lecturer, author, and researcher. Her publications include CLIL Skills, CLIL Activities, a doctoral thesis on the role of English teachers in bilingual streams and articles on multilingualism. She also chairs audit panels for bilingual streams in vocational …

Philosophy is an elective subject in secondary education in the Netherlands, which is not often studied in the context of citizenship education. This is probably because only a minority of students participate in philosophy classes in the upper grades of secondary education (approximately 2-5% of all …

Citizen science can be a powerful approach to foster the successful implementation of technological innovations in health, care or well-being. Involving experience experts as co-researchers or co-designers of technological innovations facilitates mutual learning, community building, and empowerment. …

Tijdens een lesson study ontwikkelde een groep mbo-docenten een lessenserie waarin burgerschaps- en kunstonderwijs elkaar ontmoeten. In een eerder artikel (Kunstzone 02 2024, pp.30-33) werd de inhoud van de lessenserie besproken. Hoe studenten en hun docenten dit ‘creatieve burgerschapsonderwijs’ ervoeren, …

Leraren ervaren regelmatig uitdagingen zoals uitdagend gedrag en klassenmanagement, ook op scholen met School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS). In een onderzoek met zeven basisscholen en Hogeschool Windesheim werd Lesson Study aangepast voor gedragsvraagstukken (LS-Gedrag). Het doel was te onderzoeken …

Thinking back and forth between observing physical phenomena and developing scientific ideas, also known as hands-on and minds-on learning, is essential for the development of scientific reasoning in primary science education. In the Netherlands, inquiry-based learning is advocated as the preferred teaching …

Practical work provides the opportunity for students to make a connection between hands-on activities and minds-on concepts. In this study, lesson design principles were investigated for stimulating Thinking-Back-and-Forth (TBF) between hands-on and minds-on aspects. Nine practical lessons intended to …

Een interactieve les in LessonUp voor de groepen 7 andamp; 8 over het leven van Cor Hilbrink. Hierbij zijn werkbladen en een lesbrief ontwikkeld. De inhoud sluit aan bij de theatervoorstelling andapos;Man van Betonandapos; die geproduceerd wordt door Kulturhus Borne.

In de drie deelnemende Vlaamse scholen kiezen de onderzoekers Lesson Study (LS) als effectieve docentenprofessionalisering. LS beoogt samenwerking, evidence-based werken en praktijkgerichtheid te stimuleren. Goede begeleiding is echter essentieel. Gezien de beperkte middelen nemen drie ervaren docenten, …

Engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI) is seen as an important citizenship goal of SSI-based science education. In this experimental study, Dutch students (age 8 to 13) participated in lesson series in which they learned about and discussed SSI, such as issues related to the textile industry and …