Elke professional reflecteert. Althans dat stelde Donald Schön (1983; 1987) op basis van onderzoek dat hij deed onder professionals in diverse beroepsgroepen. Hij doelde daarbij op het reflecteren tijdens het handelen (reflection-in-action). Hij constateerde dat professionals al handelend tot oplossingen …

Samenvatting: Door HRM-bachelor hbo-studenten te betrekken bij een onderzoeksproject in het Amsterdamse Nieuw-West probeerden we een bijdrage te leveren aan ‘Bildung’ van de studenten: kritisch zelfbewustzijn en empathie ontwikkeling in het onderwijs. De vraag die centraal staat in dit artikel is: Welke …

This study gains insight into impact of professional identity tensions in terms of affective appraisal and behavioral response. Data consisted of 126 semi-structured reflective journals from early career teachers collected during one school year. Affective appraisals were 'low' (no impact on daily functioning, …

Journalism was doing very well in our part of the world. Print circulation rose to a historic height in the nineties. Audience ratings and advertising revenues peaked. Our main job as educators was to closely follow this highly successful industry by teaching our students the tricks of the trade, together …

This paper aims to offer a critical reflection on the way Talent Management (TM) is investigated in practice, by addressing the key issues regarding the quality (in terms of rigor and relevance) of academic empirical TM research and therefore the critical scrutiny of TM scholars’ work. We will argue …

This short communication contains a reflection on local entrepreneurial ecosystems and how to boost them, in the context of smart specialisation strategies of cities and regions. It is based on a literature study and inputs from ten member cities of the InFocus project (sponsored by the EU's URBACT programme), …

Using a framework for educational design research, this article reports and evaluates the (process of the) design of a financial education program. The program is designed for high school students in the prevocational track in the Netherlands. The aim of the program is to improve students’ financial …

Super Bowl commercials teach us how to conceive of surveillance. While Apple promises to fight Big Brother with a personal computer, Coca-Cola invites us to think different, i.e. positively about security cameras. The whitewashing of surveillance accompanies the ‘big brotherization’ of Apple. However, …

The desire for new experiences that are truly authentic has become an important mainstream in the tourism industry. The main goal of this empirical case study was twofold: 1) To determine which concept of authenticity in tourism literature is most connected to Pine and Gilmore's theory on the search …

In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …