Does bilingual education at junior vocational secondary level ‘work’? In other words, do vmbo pupils who have some subject lessons in English, such as art or biology, achieve a higher level of (English) language proficiency without adverse effects to their Dutch proficiency or their subject knowledge? …

More than 45,000 international students are now studying for bachelor programs in the Netherlands. The number of Asian students increased dramatically in the past decade. The current research aims at examining the differences between Western European and Asian students’ perceptual learning styles, and …

Paper presented at international symposium ‘Dementia and Music. Research and Practice’. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany, 21/9/2013. Paper argues that working with dementia for musicians and music students is important because it demands them to focus on the 'other' rather then on themselves and …

Diverse onderzoekers, waaronder Van de Grift (2011), hebben bij onderzoek naar lerarengedrag in de klas het belang aangetoond van het kunnen afstemmen van het onderwijs op verschillen tussen leerlingen. Een talentvolle benadering van leerlingen, die zich niet richt op deficiënties maar op het benutten …

Presentatie in Management Team over proefschrift en de gevolgen daarvan voor het conservatorium.

Leading workshop ‘Conversation in Painting’, International Student Triennial, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

In many countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in secondary education, whether by default or design, focuses primarily on high-achieving students. This paper presents a study of CLIL programs for a different population: junior vocational students in the lower streams of secondary …

Van wetenschap en techniek naar andere domeinen. Dit is een presentatie voor de werkveldconferentie van de PABO. Het gaat om de overstap van wetenschap en techniek naar andere domeinen. Hoe kan je talenten stimuleren bij verschillende vakken.

With regard to the increasing global competition for highly-skilled labour, the group of mobile international students is becoming more and more prominent in the considerations of national policy-makers. One concrete idea is to develop policies in order to bind international students and foreign knowledge workers …

The content of most journalism courses at journalism schools has been affected by the fast digital and interactive developments in the field. The changing digital organization of information and sources necessitates constant changes in news-gathering and research techniques and affects education in research …