This study explores a school leaders' perspective on teacher professional agency. Tensions may arise when teachers feel hindered in their professional agency and try to negotiate their 'space' with other stakeholders (colleagues, students, management). School leaders are expected to empower and support …

The question is if the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts (FHK) in Tilburg will be able to facilitate interdisciplinary educational programs in its current building ensemble. This project is about expanding the current restricted campus life by means of programmatic additions and break throughs. …

Purpose: Self-managed institutional homeless programmes started as an alternative to regular shelters. Using institutional theory as a lens, we aim to explore the experiences of stakeholders with the institutional aspects of a self-managed programs. Method: The data we analysed (56 interviews, both open …

To achieve the “well below 2 degrees” targets, a new ecosystem needs to be defined where citizens become more active, co-managing with relevant stakeholders, the government, and third parties. This means moving from the traditional concept of citizens-as-consumers towards energy citizenship. Positive …

Scrum is increasingly becoming an essential product development methodology for project education in modern curricula, however, individually assessing students that work in scrum projects as applied in the professional work field remains extremely challenging until date. In scrum, students team up in …

In this chapter, we argue for more engagement with practitioners in qualitative family business research. We explain how and why an engaged scholarship is helpful to study complex social phenomena in the family business context and provide an overview of the engaged scholarship approach. We elaborate …

In this chapter, I look back at the implementation of W12-16, a major reform of mathematics education in the lower grades of general secondary education and pre-vocational secondary education in the Netherlands including all students aged 12–16. The nationwide implementation of W12-16 started in 1990 …

Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020 is a King’s Cultural Institute project led by Nicole Ferdinand (Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London) which sought to engage cultural organisations and other stakeholders in planning for the future of the Notting Hill Carnival. The …

This magazine presents the highlights of the applied research project “Inclusive and climate-smart business models in Ethiopian and Kenyan dairy valuechains (CSDEK)”. The CSDEK applied research project was conducted in six case study areas, three in Ethiopia and three in Kenya. At the time of publishing …

Dit onderzoek bekijkt het Planning & Control (P&C) proces van de Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI). Er wordt hierbij gekeken naar het Planning & Control proces in samenhang met risicomanagement. De probleemstelling van dit onderzoek is: ‘’Hoe kan het huidige proces Planning & Control van DJI verbeterd …