This article provides a narrative response to a precariousness labour situation. The question it attempts to answer is: how does one cope with the precariousness and injustices of contemporary employment without becoming pessimistic or hopeless? The piece, based on the author’s personal experience, argues …

Eredivisionist zaalvoetbal Groene Ster Vlissingen heeft in september 2014 de Groene Ster Junior League gelanceerd met als doel om de maatschappelijke betrokkenheid te vergroten en een uniek beweegaanbod voor jongeren op het gebied van zaalvoetbal te creëren. Dit doet zij middels een schoolzaalvoetbalcompetitie …

This paper is a case report of why and how CDIO became a shared framework for Community Service Engineering (CSE) education. CSE can be defined as the engineering of products, product-service combinations or services that fulfill well-being and health needs in the social domain, specifically for vulnerable …

Since March 2015 the Faculty of Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) is a CDIO member with all its twelve programs: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Building Engineering, Civil Engineering, Climate …

Due to the challenges produced by the individualisation of society and the flexibilisation of employment relationships, universities are increasingly investing in career guidance. Managers, however, have little or no vision regarding guidance and counselling. In this article we make a plea for an approach …

Writing expressive dialogues can be used to assist individuals in developing their career identities – that is: stories that are needed to help people position themselves in relation to the current labour market. Writing expressive dialogues entails having written conversations with various parts of …

Basisschool De Klokbeker wil samenwerkend leren meer onderdeel laten worden van de huidige onderwijscultuur van de school. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de vraag of het effectief is om bij samenwerkend leren te werken met heterogene talentengroepjes, waardoor elke leerling vanuit zijn kwaliteit kan werken. …

Op 15 september verdedigde Jos van Helvoort, docent aan De Haagse Hogeschool, in de Amsterdamse Agnietenkapel zijn proefschrift over het beoordelen van informatievaardigheden in het hoger onderwijs. In het boek staat een door hem ontwikkelde ‘Scoringsrubriek voor Informatievaardigheden’ centraal. …

In response to a rapidly changing, increasingly insecure and complex labor market, career counselors and researchers are developing methods that can meet the needs of individuals who would navigate this new terrain. In the last two or three decades, narrative career counseling practices (Cochran, 1997; …

In the first half of the 20th century, the individual life course was largely determined by ‘standard biographies’ (Du Bois-Reymond, 1998; Meijers & Wesselingh, 1999) whereby identity – the story individuals tell themselves and share with others about the meaning of their lives (Meijers & Lengelle, …