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How to build up a working alliance with mandated clients

Full text via link. In September 2015, a four year project on the working alliance with mandated clients started. The project was facilitated by a RAAK-PRO grant of the Dutch Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) and carried out by researchers of the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. The project has been set up throughout several areas of the forensic social field: probation, labor reintegration, debt counseling, social care and youth services. The idea came as a response to the ambivalent feelings professionals in mandated contexts express regarding the combination of controlling and coaching tasks they need to employ. They sometimes struggle with ‘hybrid working’ in one-to-one supervision with clients. Professionals claim they need theory-based knowledge on how to build a working alliance with mandated clients on which they can build their daily practice.

Uncommon sense

In this presentation of her current research project Rebecca Louise Breuer questions the common enhancement of the body through, for instance, self-tracking, data collecting and monitoring of everyday and athletic movement. She attempts to provide an alternative perspective through discussing the concept of uncommon sense by turning to (micro-)phenomenological philosophical concepts as presented by Gilles Deleuze, Hermann Schmitz, Claire Petitmengin and Peter Sloterdijk. The case study used during this presentation, which will sketch an artistic, creative alternative to common sensoring devices, is found in the sound producing pressure sensors incorporated in the Lace Sensor Dresses by Anja Hertenberger and Meg Grant, artists working in the field of e-textiles and wearable electronics.

Exploring and exploiting and why we always end up with the Beatles

It is argued that pop music has long been locked up in the exploitation phase. Boring, more boring and even more boring seems to be the motto, and only extreme, as now boring monotonous hip hop from Chicago / London - called drill - in which "respect" is enforced by the real killing in quarrels between rival gangs, explores the border. For the rest, contemporary pop music is exploitation, until we learn to listen differently to the many talents that remain undiminished and we grant them the adventure of musical or scientific exploration.

Future of cultural tourism for urban and regional destinations. Deliverable D2.2 of the SmartCulTour ‘Horizon 2020’ project (grant agreement number 870708).

[Review of: Grant, S.G. (1997). On subject-specific pedagogy: two teachers, two pedagogical approaches]

Grant legt de nadruk op de verschillen tussen docenten bij het behandelen van een onderwerp. Die verschillen bestaan als het gaat om de inhoud en de didactische aanpak van de stof. Het onderwerp waarbij Grant dit onderzocht was de burgerrechtenbeweging in de V.S. vanaf de jaren ‟50. Grant heeft twee doelen met zijn artikel. Ten eerste wil hij kijken naar hoe docenten denken over de stof en hun mening over de mogelijkheden van scholieren om te begrijpen waarom ze een bepaalde leermethode toepassen. Daarnaast wil hij de gevolgen die dit heeft voor onderwijsbeleid en professionele ontwikkeling van docenten in kaart brengen. Hoe docenten denken over een bepaald onderwerp en hoe zij denken over de mogelijkheden van hun leerlingen heeft volgens Grant gevolgen voor de door de docent in de les gehanteerde onderwijsmethode. De standplaatsgebondenheid van de docent wordt onder andere bepaald door de visie van de docent op de stof en op zijn leerlingen

Participatory Grant-Making as a Social Innovation: Examining Relational Processes in Social Finance

This study examines how philanthropic foundations develop innovative approaches to grant-making by collaborating with social entrepreneurs who are embedded in marginalized communities. Traditionally, foundations award grants that meet predetermined strategic objectives that support their theories of change. However, this study explores an alternative approach known as participatory grant-making, in which philanthropic foundations cede control over strategy and finance by adopting an innovative approach that is based more on trust and collaboration. By analyzing in-depth interviews from 16 executives, directors, and social entrepreneurs in the United States, we demonstrate how participatory grant-making constitutes a social innovation that inverts traditional power dynamics in the philanthropic field by enhancing legitimacy, and thereby facilitating a more interconnected, inclusive, and equitable approach to solving social problems. This article demonstrates how the implementation of participatory grant-making programs can help to counter the increasing criticisms levied at traditional approaches to grant-making.