Sinds de invoering in 1998 van de Tweede Fase in het Middelbaar Onderwijs is er een nieuw elan geslopen in discussies die gaan over wat interdisciplinariteit in de kunsten precies betekent en hoe deze van betekenis kan zijn voor het kunstonderwijs. Tot het moment van invoering werd het kunstonderwijs …

Met een consortium van muziekdocenten die zich gespecialiseerd hebben in ouderen en muziek voerde het lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music van 2010-2012 onderzoek uit naar het leren bespelen van een instrument op oudere leeftijd. Maar hoe is het om voor het eerst een instrument te leren bespelen in de …

“So why do we assume our teachers pull at the right end of the rope?” This question was raised during a discussion concerning the intercultural competences of our faculty in comparison to the perceived disappointing level of intercultural competences of our graduates. Intercultural competence development …

What makes an educational game good? This paper describes three research directions that could provide insight in the underlying principles of effective educational games. These aspects are 1) The importance of distinguishing between types of to-be-learned knowledge, 2) the need to understand the relationship …

Preschool children's vocabulary mainly develops verbal through interaction. Therefore, the technology-enhanced storytelling (TES) activity Jeffy's Journey is developed to support parent–child interaction and vocabulary in preschool children. TES entails shared verbal storytelling supported by a story …

Stakeholder engagement in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides opportunities for inclusive environmental decision-making contributing to the attainment of agreement about the potential environmental and health impacts of a plan. A case evaluation of stakeholder …

The number of out-of-school science programs, which refers to science education at outside school environments, is gradually increasing. Although out-of-school programs are generally considered to be important for the development of pupils’ science knowledge and skills, more evidence concerning the learning …

Since concepts may have different meanings in different contexts, students have to learn to recontextualise them, i.e. to adapt their meanings to a new context. It is unclear, however, what characteristics a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising should have. The study aims to develop such …