The integration of big data and artificial intelligence into modern systems has profoundly influenced societal structures causing significant ethical challenges. This paper investigates the role of professional oaths in mitigating these threats by focusing on Dutch data professionals. Through a two-phase …

Education for sustainable development (ESD) presents challenges to secondary science teachers. Characteristic aspects such as action-oriented teaching, stance-taking, interdisciplinary problem solving, and emotional and value-oriented teaching cause tensions for teachers accustomed to traditional science …

Due to the variegated nature of the teaching profession system, different actors operating in this system (teachers, school leaders, policy makers) are inevitably intertwined and assumably influence each other’s sensemaking processes, especially when system-wide educational change occurs. Gaining insight …

Chapter 1: General introduction. A specific group of people with disabilities includes individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). However, individuals with PIMD form a heterogeneous group regarding the origins of their underlying conditions leading to profound disabilities …

This paper explores how attitudes and values can be integrated as essential components of engineering education, where energy education is embedded within the curriculum. The study introduces a small-scale, design-based professional development track grounded in systemic design. Using the 3.2.1.SPRINT …

Vocational teachers are expected to keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. In order to support their professional development effectively, we need to understand how vocational teachers learn, what they learn, and why they learn. This study characterises vocational teachers’ continuing …

In this study, a theory synthesis was conducted from a sociocultural perspective to specify the situated processes involved in teacher agency development in the dynamics of educational practices. Agency is closely related to teacher wellbeing and important for teachers to create situations that enable …

To provide high-quality education, teachers in vocational education are expected to keep their knowledge up to date. Vocational teachers’ knowledge includes both teaching knowledge and knowledge about the vocational practice teachers educate their students for. Research on teachers’ knowledge predominantly …

This study explores how teachers’ assessment literacy manifests within assessment practices in higher professional education. While assessment literacy is a multifaceted and dynamic construct, little is known about how it unfolds in practice. Showing how assessment literacy emerges and how its meaning …

Second career teachers (SCT) are key role models in vocational education (VE) because they prepare students for the vocational practice they were part of, and they bring up-to-date vocational knowledge and skills into VE schools. Therefore, the early leaving of SCTs in VE is a problem, adding to the …