Aanleiding voor deze position paper was het grote aantal vragen over de relatie tussen wereldburgerschap en internationalisering die we kregen van mbo- en hbo-docenten. Om te verduidelijken hoe wereldburgerschap en internationalisering leven onder mbo- en hbodocenten, hebben we een survey afgenomen in samenwerking met Nuffic en UNESCO Nederland. De resultaten bevestigen onze vermoedens: wereldburgerschap wordt vooral begrepen in termen van diversiteit of interculturele vaardigheden en internationalisering in termen van mobiliteit en, eveneens, interculturele vaardigheden. Respondenten zien een sterke relatie tussen wereldburgerschap en internationalisering, maar hebben uiteenlopende opvattingen over deze relatie. Terwijl sommigen wereldburgerschap als een onderdeel van internationalisering zien, denken anderen het tegendeel. Veel respondenten verbinden zowel internationalisering als wereldburgerschap met diversiteit, inclusie en interculturele vaardigheden. Voor wereldburgerschap is deze vernauwing problematisch omdat het daardoor apolitiek en ajuridisch wordt. Hiermee bedoelen we dat de politieke en rechtelijke dimensie van wereldburgerschap verdwijnt, terwijl die zo cruciaal is om als wereldburger te kunnen participeren. Voor internationalisering is het problematisch dat de aandacht zich nog steeds primair richt op mobiliteit voor een kleine minderheid van studenten in plaats van allereerst op internationalisering van het curriculum voor alle studenten. De kern van wereldburgerschap hebben we gedefinieerd als kritische participatie in een globaliserende wereld. Het laten oefenen van zulk wereldburgerschap betekent studenten toerusten met verschillende soorten kennis (real world knowledge) en het vermogen om kritisch na te denken, morele afwegingen te maken en te participeren in publieke discussies over globale en lokale maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Wereldburgerschap in het beroepsonderwijs betekent participatie oefenen, niet alleen als wereldburger, maar ook als beroepsbeoefenaar. Internationalisering Is gericht op pluriforme perspectieven uit andere landen, culturen en contexten. Een geïnternationaliseerd -en ‘geïnterculturaliseerd’ curriculum is relevant voor alle studenten omdat ze met deze dimensies te maken krijgen in hun beroepspraktijk en in de samenleving waarvan ze deel uitmaken. We hebben vervolgens omschreven en met voorbeelden geïllustreerd hoe, volgens ons, wereldburgerschap en internationalisering op een betekenisvolle manier zijn verweven. Zo doen we recht aan beide concepten en brengen tegelijkertijd de kwaliteit van het onderwijs een stap verder. In onze visie is de kern van deze verwevenheid dat we studenten uit verschillende disciplines/beroepen, culturen en landen groepsgewijs aan wicked (deel)problemen laten werken. Op deze wijze werken aan wereldburgerschap en internationalisering vraagt erom zorgvuldig de leeractiviteiten voor te bereiden: van de opdracht tot aan de doorvoering. Het vraagt er ook om dat docenten en studenten buiten de grens van de eigen discipline samenwerken (samenwerkend leren), ervaren wat het betekent om een kritische en democratische discussie te voeren en besluiten te nemen over mogelijke (deel)oplossingen, rekening houdend met diversiteit en inclusie en het lokale met het mondiale verbindend. Om de perspectiefwisseling nog te versterken raden we aan om COIL te gebruiken. Met deze position paper hopen we inzichten te hebben verschaft aan docenten die aan de slag willen met wereldburgerschap en internationalisering.
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In November 2021, the Lecturer Position at Institutes (L.INT) professorship was established by Saxion and Medical Spectrum Twente and as partners physiotherapy practice Pro-F and the Thoracic Centre Twente, with Sandra van Hogen-Koster as a professor. With this, the first Dutch professorship that focuses on the ideas of Positive Health has been launched.
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Why a position statement on Assessment in Physical Education? The purpose of this AIESEP Position Statement on Assessment in Physical Education (PE) is fourfold: • To advocate internationally for the importance of assessment practices as central to providing meaningful, relevant and worthwhile physical education; • To advise the field of PE about assessment-related concepts informed by research and contemporary practice; • To identify pressing research questions and avenues for new research in the area of PE assessment; • To provide a supporting rationale for colleagues who wish to apply for research funds to address questions about PE assessment or who have opportunities to work with or influence policy makers. The main target groups for this position statement are PE teachers, PE pre-service teachers, PE curriculum officers, PE teacher educators, PE researchers, PE administrators and PE policy makers. How was this position statement created? The AIESEP specialist seminar ‘Future Directions in PE Assessment’ was held from October 18-20 2018, at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The seminar aimed to bring together leading scholars in the field to present and discuss ‘evidence-informed’ views on various topics around PE assessment. It brought together 71 experts from 20 countries (see appendix 2) to share research on PE assessment via keynote lectures and research presentations and to discuss assessment-related issues in interactive sessions. Input from this meeting informed a first draft version of the statement. This first draft was sent to all participants of the specialist seminar for feedback, from which a second draft was created. This draft was presented at the AIESEP International Conference 2019 in Garden City, New York, after which further feedback was collected from participants both on site and through an online survey. The main contributors to the writing of the position statement are mentioned in appendix 1. Approval was granted by the AIESEP Board on May 7th, 2020. Largely in keeping with the main themes of the AIESEP specialist seminar ‘Future Directions in PE Assessment’, this Position Statement is divided into the following sections: Assessment Literacy; Accountability & Policy; Instructional Alignment; Assessment for Learning; Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) and Continuing Professional Development; Digital Technology in PE Assessment. These sections are preceded by a brief overview of research data on PE. The statement concludes with directions for future research.
In this proposal, a consortium of knowledge institutes (wo, hbo) and industry aims to carry out the chemical re/upcycling of polyamides and polyurethanes by means of an ammonolysis, a depolymerisation reaction using ammonia (NH3). The products obtained are then purified from impurities and by-products, and in the case of polyurethanes, the amines obtained are reused for resynthesis of the polymer. In the depolymerisation of polyamides, the purified amides are converted to the corresponding amines by (in situ) hydrogenation or a Hofmann rearrangement, thereby forming new sources of amine. Alternatively, the amides are hydrolysed toward the corresponding carboxylic acids and reused in the repolymerisation towards polyamides. The above cycles are particularly suitable for end-of-life plastic streams from sorting installations that are not suitable for mechanical/chemical recycling. Any loss of material is compensated for by synthesis of amines from (mixtures of) end-of-life plastics and biomass (organic waste streams) and from end-of-life polyesters (ammonolysis). The ammonia required for depolymerisation can be synthesised from green hydrogen (Haber-Bosch process).By closing carbon cycles (high carbon efficiency) and supplementing the amines needed for the chain from biomass and end-of-life plastics, a significant CO2 saving is achieved as well as reduction in material input and waste. The research will focus on a number of specific industrially relevant cases/chains and will result in economically, ecologically (including safety) and socially acceptable routes for recycling polyamides and polyurethanes. Commercialisation of the results obtained are foreseen by the companies involved (a.o. Teijin and Covestro). Furthermore, as our project will result in a wide variety of new and drop-in (di)amines from sustainable sources, it will increase the attractiveness to use these sustainable monomers for currently prepared and new polyamides and polyurethanes. Also other market applications (pharma, fine chemicals, coatings, electronics, etc.) are foreseen for the sustainable amines synthesized within our proposition.
Size measurement plays an essential role for micro-/nanoparticle characterization and property evaluation. Due to high costs, complex operation or resolution limit, conventional characterization techniques cannot satisfy the growing demand of routine size measurements in various industry sectors and research departments, e.g., pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and food industry etc. Together with start-up SeeNano and other partners, we will develop a portable compact device to measure particle size based on particle-impact electrochemical sensing technology. The main task in this project is to extend the measurement range for particles with diameters ranging from 20 nm to 20 um and to validate this technology with realistic samples from various application areas. In this project a new electrode chip will be designed and fabricated. It will result in a workable prototype including new UMEs (ultra-micro electrode), showing that particle sizing can be achieved on a compact portable device with full measuring range. Following experimental testing with calibrated particles, a reliable calibration model will be built up for full range measurement. In a further step, samples from partners or potential customers will be tested on the device to evaluate the application feasibility. The results will be validated by high-resolution and mainstream sizing techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and Coulter counter.
Many lithographically created optical components, such as photonic crystals, require the creation of periodically repeated structures [1]. The optical properties depend critically on the consistency of the shape and periodicity of the repeated structure. At the same time, the structure and its period may be similar to, or substantially below that of the optical diffraction limit, making inspection with optical microscopy difficult. Inspection tools must be able to scan an entire wafer (300 mm diameter), and identify wafers that fail to meet specifications rapidly. However, high resolution, and high throughput are often difficult to achieve simultaneously, and a compromise must be made. TeraNova is developing an optical inspection tool that can rapidly image features on wafers. Their product relies on (a) knowledge of what the features should be, and (b) a detailed and accurate model of light diffraction from the wafer surface. This combination allows deviations from features to be identified by modifying the model of the surface features until the calculated diffraction pattern matches the observed pattern. This form of microscopy—known as Fourier microscopy—has the potential to be very rapid and highly accurate. However, the solver, which calculates the wafer features from the diffraction pattern, must be very rapid and precise. To achieve this, a hardware solver will be implemented. The hardware solver must be combined with mechatronic tracking of the absolute wafer position, requiring the automatic identification of fiduciary markers. Finally, the problem of computer obsolescence in instrumentation (resulting in security weaknesses) will also be addressed by combining the digital hardware and software into a system-on-a-chip (SoC) to provide a powerful, yet secure operating environment for the microscope software.
