Background Refugees encounter texts such as course books, pamphlets and exams during mandatory integration in the Netherlands. Texts present explicit or implicit messages to refugees on “successful” integration and citizenship. The What’s the Problem Represented to Be? (WPR) approach from Carol Bacchi, …

For the present review, we analyzed 28 studies researching the effects of interventions for parents with less education on the oral language development of their young children (ages 3–8). Two groups of interventions were distinguished: shared reading and other home activities. Within each group, we …

The relevance of an internationalised home curriculum for all students is generally acknowledged. Other than study abroad, the home curriculum gives programs of study full control over the way students learn international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary perspectives. However, misconceptions, lack …

Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and there is an urgent need to make them more resilient. The Climatescan adaptation tool www.climatescan.nl is applied as an interactive tool for knowledge exchange and raising awareness on Nature-Bases Solutions (NBS) targeting young professionals …

Medewerkers in de zorg voor mensen met een licht verstandelijke beperking (LVB) worden met enige regelmaat geconfronteerd met delinquent gedrag door hun cliënten. De vraag hoe hier mee om te gaan, en met name de vraag wanneer het strafrecht hierbij te betrekken, leidt niet zelden tot moeilijke dilemma’s. …

Risicojongeren zijn doorgaans hypersensitief als het gaat om de echtheid en intenties van anderen. Tevens hebben ze veelal negatieve associaties met hulpverlening. Naast de grote hoeveelheid onderzoek naar wat werkt binnen diverse integrale aanpakken rondom risicojongeren, lijkt in de praktijk nog meer …

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 …

Technology in general, and assistive technology in particular, is considered to be a promising opportunity to address the challenges of an aging population. Nevertheless, in health care, technology is not as widely used as could be expected. In this chapter, an overview is given of theories and models …

De verhalen zullen niet altijd direct tot meer begrip en medeleven leiden voor de jonge daders. Maar hopelijk leiden de gevoelens en gedachten van de lezer wel tot meer inzicht in de leefwereld en belevingswereld van deze jongeren. De lezer kan het strafbare gedrag begrijpen als dat van een persoon die …

Lecture at opening of a museum exhibition