We analyze the literature regarding community energy. We investigate theappearance of studies in the literature and the geographical orientation of the case studies, as well as the actual journals where the articles are published. We relate the articles to the theoretical approaches that are being employed. We analyze keywords used by the authors in their study of community energy and reflect on the country specifics of the case studies. We conclude that the study of community energy is still in its infancy as there is little commonality in the terminology and key concepts used.Further, we conclude that the theoretical underpinnings of studying community energy are in progress.
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A commonality in socially-aware persuasive games is the strategy to appeal to empathy, as a means to have players feel and understand the struggles of another. This is particularly evident in the expanding use of immersive technologies, lauded for its ability to have players more literally 'stand in another's shoes'. But despite the growing interest, empathic engagement through immersive technologies is still ill-defined and the design thereof complicated, with questions like "who is the player?" and "with whom does the player empathize?". We contend that a better understanding of the different perspectives to empathic engagement - the observer, partaker, and victim - and the gap between realities can be insightful, and resulted in a framework to support future research and design.
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In this chapter, seven intercultural teaching experiences are contextualised by using the Hofstede (2011) model on cultural dimensions. The experiences are from Australia, China, France, Germany, Russia, India and Thailand. They are analysed using Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions of Power Distance, Individualism, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance. The results show that stereotypical behaviour in the teacher-student interaction is confirmed, but is also refuted in numerous instances and across the dimensions. The described cases also cover interactions between the guest lecturer and staff of the hosting universities in the seven countries. This anecdotal evidence shows more commonality with the Hofstede model than the teacher-student relationships do. Using Hofstede’s model to prepare for and carry out international guest lectures remains a useful tool. It is advised to keep an open mind and not take stereotypical behaviour for granted
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The main objective of this study was to influence implicit learning through two different classical manipulations and to inspect whether working memory capacity (WMC) and personality were related to the different measures of learning. With that purpose, in Experiment 1 we asked 172 undergraduate students of psychology to perform a serial reaction time (SRT) task under single- or dual-task conditions and to complete a WMC task and a personality test. In Experiment 2, 164 students performed the SRT task under incidental or intentional conditions and also filled a WMC task and a personality test. In both experiments, WMC influenced learning, but this relation was found only when attention was not loaded (Experiment 1) or when intentional instructions were given (Experiment 2). The pattern of relations with personality, although more varied, also showed a commonality between both experiments: learning under the most implicit conditions correlated positively with extraversion.
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The future of the business sector for students in higher education is uncertain. The reasons for this are technological developments, the effects of globalisation and the shifting of business models (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014; Helbing, 2014). The consequences of digitalisation and robotisation are large for professions in the financial-economic sector, such as accountancy and finance, business economy, and marketing (Frey & Osborne, 2013; Deloitte, 2016). As a result, certain jobs will disappear, but on the other hand new types of jobs will arise. It is expected that people in employment will have to have a strong adaptive ability to handle fast changes. There is an increasing expectation that they need to be mobile between employers and that they should be able to deal with a variety of new tasks, roles and positions (Dochy, Berghmans, Koenen, & Segers, 2015). Professionals need to have a sense of great flexibility in order to be able to anticipate these changes based on their own power and ambition. In addition to this adaptive ability, good interpersonal skills are essential due to the need for working in multidisciplinary teams on complex issues (Onstenk, 2017). The Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (Sociaal-Economische Raad, 2017) presumes that the level of basic skills required to participate in an increasingly complex society is continuously growing, and they advise upcoming professionals to train their resistance, flexibility and the ability to continuously develop in order to maintain sustainable employability. In this way professionals regularly need to be able to reinvent themselves during periods of change (Van Water & Weggeman, 2017; Frie, Potting, Sjoer, & Van der Heijden, submitted for publication). This chapter will describe how the Department of Business, Finance & Marketing (BFM) of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) has found an answer to the challenges of a Department-wide educational innovation. First it is outlined what this innovation involves and how it will be designed. The net paragraph clarifies the overlap in the competency profiles of the five programmes of BFM. Then the next steps of this educational innovation process are described. Finally, insights will be discussed as to the role of the lecturers and the business sector, as valuable partners, within this educational reform.
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This is a review of the literature on community energy. We analyze more than 250 studies that appeared in the academic literature in the period 1997-2018. We investigate the timing regarding the appearance of these studies, the geographical orientation of the research, and the journals in which the articles appeared. We also analyse the keywords used to identify the research. Further, we relate the articles to the theoretical perspectives employed. We also analyse keywords used by the authors in relation to the particular approaches employed and reflect on the country specifics of the case studies. We find that the majority of studies on community energy did appear in the last couple of years. Especially the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands are being investigated. Energy Policy published most of the studies. Different theoretical perspectives study community energy, especially Governance, Sociology, Economics, Planning, Technology, and Transition. We conclude that the study of community energy is still in its infancy as there is little commonality in the terminology and key concepts used. Studying community energy requires further improvement in order to better integrate the different theoretical perspectives and to ground policy decisions.
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Een superdiverse samenleving biedt nieuwe kansen, maar ‘super’ verwijst niet zozeer naar super goed als wel naar super complex. Toekomstig onderzoek naar praktijken van burgerschap en diversiteit staat daarom voor grote uitdagingen. De eerste uitdaging betreft ons taalgebruik. Ik stel voor dat we als onderzoekers voortaan het bijvoeglijk naamwoord ‘cultureel’ zoveel mogelijk vermijden. We kunnen constateren dat het bij Surinaamse gezinnen de gewoonte is om in huis je schoenen uit te doen, of dat Nederlanders gehecht zijn aan de traditie van Sinterklaas. Maar wat voegt de mededeling dat het gaat om een culturele gewoonte of traditie aan deze beweringen toe? Niets anders dan de suggestie dat die gewoonte of traditie veroorzaakt zou worden door een onderliggende Surinaamse of Nederlandse cultuur, terwijl het er alleen maar een (helemaal niet zo essentieel) onderdeel van uit maakt. Een tweede uitdaging is een epistemische uitdaging. In het onderzoek naar omgangsvormen in de grootstedelijke samenleving moeten we, naast aandacht voor de relatie tussen immigranten en de autochtone bevolking, veel meer aandacht gaan besteden aan de relaties tussen immigrantengroepen onderling: onder welke voorwaarden ontstaan vruchtbare samenwerkings- en samenlevingsverbanden, en hoe te voorkomen dat groepen tegenover elkaar komen te staan? Welke symbolische en materiële machtsverhoudingen ontwikkelen zich, en welke rol spelen hierbij factoren als inkomen, opleiding, taal, religie en habitus? Het lijkt erop dat voor het begrijpen van deze sociale dynamiek zowel het conceptuele raamwerk van gevestigden en buitenstaanders van Elias en Scotson, als de noties van economisch, sociaal en cultureel kapitaal van Bourdieu nog steeds heel bruikbaar zijn. De derde, en misschien wel grootste uitdaging is een normatieve uitdaging. Op grond van de hier voorgestelde constructivistische conceptie van cultuur kunnen we constateren dat het geen enkele zin heeft om de vraag te stellen of ‘een cultuur’ in zijn geheel moreel beter of minder is dan andere culturen. Het is daarentegen uitermate zinvol, zelfs noodzakelijk, dat we een bepaalde traditie of praktijk onder de loep nemen, en gezamenlijk exploreren hoe rechtvaardig of hoe waardevol deze (nog) is binnen de nieuwe verhoudingen van een superdiverse samenleving. Bestuurders, beleidsmakers en professionals kunnen een positieve bijdrage leveren aan de onderlinge integratie in majority-minority steden, aan de verbetering van verstandhoudingen op de werkvloer, in het onderwijs, de gezondheidszorg, het publieke debat of de openbare ruimte, wanneer ze hun rol als normatieve professional serieus nemen. Het recente debat over de rol van de figuur van zwarte Piet in de Nederlandse Sinterklaas traditie is, hoe pijnlijk ook, een mooi voorbeeld hiervan. Een ander zinvol initiatief aan De Haagse Hogeschool is de start van een ‘dilemmabank’ een interactieve databank waar medewerkers, aan de hand van het (in overleg met veel betrokkenen ontwikkeld) Handelingskader Diversiteit, dilemma’s en oplossingen uit hun eigen praktijk kunnen indienen: als bron van discussie en reflectie.
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Worldwide, pupils with migrant backgrounds do not participate in school STEM subjects as successfully as their peers. Migrant pupils’ subject-specific language proficiency lags behind, which hinders participation and learning. Primary teachers experience difficulty in teaching STEM as well as promoting required language development. This study investigates how a professional development program (PDP) focusing on inclusive STEM teaching can promote teacher learning of language-promoting strategies (promoting interaction, scaffolding language and using multilingual resources). Participants were five case study teachers in multilingual schools in the Netherlands (N = 2), Sweden (N = 1) and Norway (N = 2), who taught in primary classrooms with migrant pupils. The PDP focused on three STEM units (sound, maintenance, plant growth) and language-promoting strategies. To trace teachers’ learning, three interviews were conducted with each of the five teachers (one after each unit). The teachers also filled in digital logs (one after each unit). The interviews showed positive changes in teachers’ awareness, beliefs and attitudes towards language-supporting strategies. However, changes in practice and intentions for practice were reported to a lesser extent. This study shows that a PDP can be an effective starting point for teacher learning regarding inclusive STEM teaching. It also illuminates possible enablers (e.g., fostering language awareness) or hinderers (e.g., teachers’ limited STEM knowledge) to be considered in future PDP design.
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