Publications

The teacher educator as an agent of (social) change

For me the concept of the teacher educator as a agent of social change, implies that teacher educators should be focused on stimulating change and improvement in teacher education, schools and society. That focus ...

Die Reformation in niederländischen Geschichtsschulbüchern

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Teachers as agents of change in responsive schools

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English teachers in bilingual streams: in search of identity and focus

In CLIL contexts in the Netherlands, learners use the target language meaningfully in subject lessons parallel to English classes and English teachers are expected to co-operate with subject teacher colleagues. What ...

Teacher educators’ conceptualization of ongoing language development in professional learning and teaching

Sociocultural and dialogic theories of education have identified the need to integrate both pedagogical content and language knowledge into teachers’ professional development to promote effective interaction ...

A review of financial-literacy education programs for children and adolescents

In this systematic literature review, we evaluate the effectiveness of financial-literacy education programs and interventions for children and adolescents. Furthermore, the key characteristics of the design of a ...

Effects of the Caregiver Interaction Profile Training on Caregiver-Child Interactions in Dutch Child Care Centers

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Effects of language-oriented vs meaning-oriented instruction on pre-vocational learners’ EFL oral skills

Pre­vocational learners in grade 9 (n=155) received speaking lessons that differed in focus (language structures vs interactional strategies), lesson phasing (PPP vs TBLT), and type of task (guided role plays vs ...

Analysing empowerment-oriented email consultation for parents

Online consultation is increasingly offered by parenting practitioners, but it is not clear if it is feasible to provide empowerment‐oriented support in a single session email consultation.

'I saw angry people and broken statues'

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Stimulating parent-child interaction through storytelling activities of a family literacy program

Preschool children's vocabulary mainly develops verbal through interaction. Therefore, the technology-enhanced storytelling (TES) activity Jeffy's Journey is developed to support parent–child interaction and ...

PreSchool@HealthyWeight

Kritisch omgaan met informatie

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Interactive virtual math

An essential condition to use mathematics to solve problems is the ability to recognize, imagine and represent relations between quantities. In particular, covariational reasoning has been shown to be very ...

O uso da tecnologia na Holanda

Eighteen years after the introduction of the graphing calculator in national examinations in the Netherlands, much has been learned about the use of technology in education. One of the key lessons was that ...

Feeding forward and feeding back

The bilingual education standard agreed by the Network for Dutch Bilingual schools requires subject teachers to be able to provide feedback on their learners’ language use. But this is not as easy as it seems. ...

The contribution of graduation research to school development

When teaching is considered as a collaborative activity, the aim of research projects in schools needs to exceed the individual and personal levels and aim to contribute to research-informed reflection of a team of ...

Maatwerk en talentontwikkeling als criteria van onderwijskwaliteit

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Children's executive and social functioning and family context as predictors of preschool vocabulary

The primary source for young children's vocabulary development is parent-child interaction. How parent-child interaction influences vocabulary depends on the child's functioning and the family context. Although ...

Facilitating linguistically diverse parents to enhance toddler’s vocabulary development

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