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, …

Technology has come through code in the linguistic domain (programming language), which means that  there are opportunities for applied psychologists to help develop technology that contributes to an inclusive society. If this environment is optimally designed, people will become the best they can be …

This small-scale observational study explores how Dutch bilingual education history teachers (BHTs) focus on the L2 component in their CLIL-lessons. We observed and rated eight BHTs on five language teaching categories. Results show that Dutch BHTs focus more strongly on using the L2 to teach subject …

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 …

Blog over het pleidooi van Kamerlid Aartsen (VVD) voor meer financiering van volkscultuur.

In de zoektocht naar relevant muziekonderwijs vanuit het theoretisch concept idiocultureel muziekonderwijs, van Evert Bisschop Boele, is de eigenzinnige lespraktijk van muziekdocent Johan ’t Hart drie maanden intensief gevolgd om tot een gedetailleerde beschrijving van zijn manier van werken te komen. …

​'Kijk, dit zie ik' onderzoekt hoe je iemand met dementie beter kunt leren kennen door samen foto's te maken. Artistiek onderzoeker en documentairemaker Swanhilde de Jong maakte foto’s met bewoners van het Groninger verpleeghuis ‘t Blauwbörgje (Dignis). Zij ontwikkelde een manier om iemand met dementie …

The instrument called Families Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA) is used to measure nurses' attitudes toward involving families in their nursing care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the FINC-NA scale in a population of Dutch nurses and add new psychometric information to existing …

The present study investigated whether text structure inference skill (i.e., the ability to infer overall text structure) has unique predictive value for expository text comprehension on top of the variance accounted for by sentence reading fluency, linguistic knowledge and metacognitive knowledge. Furthermore, …