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In opdracht van de Vereniging Dorpsbelangen Kantens is onderzoek gedaan onder alle inwoners van Kantens hoe zij hun leefomgeving waarderen. In dit onderzoek zijn vier domeinen betrokken die bepalend zijn voor de beleving van leefbaarheid: het wonen en de woonomgeving, het voorzieningenniveau, het sociale klimaat en het organiserend vermogen van de dorpsgemeenschap. Het doel van dit onderzoek was om de Vereniging Dorpsbelangen Kantens inzicht te geven over de ervaren leefbaarheid in Kantens.
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In het project Koppelkansen hebben inwoners van Appingedam, Kantens,Stitswerd en Loppersum meegedacht over hoe de versterkingsoperatiekan worden benut voor de verduurzaming van de huizen. Het projectwerd geleid door twee onderzoekers van het Kenniscentrum Noorder-Ruimte (Hanzehogeschool Groningen), in samenwerking met drie lokaleenergiecoöperaties: LOPEC uit Loppersum, Eendracht uit Appingedam enE.I.K. uit Kantens. Dit boekje biedt inspiratie en praktische tips voor bewoners om zelf verder aan de slag te gaan met de verduurzaming van hun woningen.
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This relationship between external knowledge providers, e.g. consultants and academic institutions, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a difficult one. SME entrepreneurs think external advice is expensive, not required and/or not useful. In this paper these arguments are explored against the specific characteristics of SMEs. The argument of price probably tells more about the consultants inability to quantify the returns on their advice than about the cost of their services. Support policies enable free consults for SMEs on numerous topics, but the use of these facilities is relatively low. The suggestion that SME entrepreneurs do not need external knowledge is contradicted by their own assessment of their qualities. Typically the entrepreneurs lack expertise in supporting business functions like HR, IT, Finance and Legal. In SMEs these blank spots are not compensated by specialist staff members because the of the scale of the organization. The argument that the advice of an external consultant is generally not useful raises the question whether the insights gained in several business sciences only apply to large companies. This seems unlikely. Given the characteristics of SMEs the difference is probably more the context in which the insights are applied than the content of the insights itself. From the analysis of the characteristics of SMEs the dominant influence of the person of the owner/director, together with the absence of specialist staff, appeared as two of the most significant differences between SMEs and large companies. Given the personal profiles of these owners/directors as studied by Blom (Blom, 2001), the external knowledge providers should realize the three ways in consulting. The first way is the way of thinking. For this way it was stated already that the content of business sciences is not likely to differ for SMEs. The second way, the way of working, represents for the way information is gathered and the entrepreneur and his staff is involved in the process of developing the advice. In this way the consultant should allow for interaction and should make it fun for the participants. In this aspect, the process approach of consulting shows promising. The third way, the way of communicating, represents the way the knowledge is transferred from the advisor to the entrepreneur. In this way it is crucial to acknowledge the different personal profiles of SME entrepreneurs and consultants and to adjust the communication accordingly. Taking the three ways into account, the conclusion could be that the transfer of knowledge should be more the sharing of experiences. The Chair of Management Consulting will adjust her activities to explore this insight further.
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In dit artikel wordt de literatuur verkend op het terrein van een meer sociaalparticipatieve benadering van actief burgerschap. In deze literatuur wordt de ontwikkeling van burgerschap verbonden met de noodzaak zicht te ontwikkelen op handelingscontexten die voor zowel burgers als sociale professionals van belang zijn. We verkennen relevante literatuur van onder andere De Tocqueville, Dewey, Putnam, Lichterman en Biesta. Door aandacht te besteden aan burgerschap als praktijk beogen we dichter op de huid van het werk van sociale professionals te kruipen, waardoor de huidige ontwikkelingen rondom de bevordering van actief burgerschap bevraagd kunnen worden. Wat deze literatuurverkenning in beeld brengt is dat actief burgerschap niet tot bloei komt vanuit een opgelegde moraal, maar verbonden dient te worden met het dagelijkse handelen van burgers, waarin het “al doende leren” samen op gaat met de ontwikkeling van betekenisvolle praktijken. Sociale professionals hebben vooral tot taak dit type praktijken te ondersteunen en te faciliteren.
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There is a central dilemma embedded in the relationship between teachers and researchers. Teachers know the story of the classroom well, but they are seldom asked to tell their stories, nor do they usually have the opportunity. Researchers, on the other hand, are skilled at telling certain things about classrooms, but they often miss the central stories that are there. This divergence can lead to different opinions on what teaching is about and what is important within it. To bridge this gap, we describe an approach which puts the teacher and the student at the centre. With respect to emotional and behavioural problems of students, we underline the notion of student-teacher compatibility, deriving from theories emphasizing the transactional/reciprocal nature of human behaviour. One of the aims of the Lectorship and Knowledge Network Behavioural Problems in School Practice, is to identify at-risk-teachers (i.e. those most vulnerable to the presence of behaviourally challenging students and parents) so that interventions, both in initial teacher training as well as in inservice training can be applied to help them develop adequate attitudes and coping-skills. In clinical supervision, peer coaching or reflective practice, these teachers can be helped to consider in what way student and parental problem behaviour contribute to their loss of satisfaction, their feelings of self doubt, perceived disruption of the teaching process, and their frustration working with parents.
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Debates about social theory and social policy are highly fragmented and unclear in subject and direction. A recognised paradigm is failing. Maybe we have to accept that social reality is not to reconstruct in social theory. But we certainly need social theorists and social theories to support citizens, policy makers and social workers in improving social reality. Social reality in post modern societies is to be characterized by problematic relationships among citizens and between citizens and the public sector and by a sharp rise in problematic behaviour. The affluent society has failed to create a more sensitive world where people behave more socially. The dominant social problem is no longer seen from a social economic perspective but from a social cultural one. Social competences and social capital are considerer to be essential assets to cope with life in post modern society. For people weak ties and thin trust are essential to integrate into society. Thick trust and strong ties can bind people to much and cause inflexibility. The current social problem is a matter of designing a social world where relationships and behaviour are fair and reasonable. It asks for an interesting and creative social policy and social work, not too much stressing the problematic issues but encouraging people to trust each other. Current social policy is too much focused on the needs and problems. It has to change into a more expressive social policy, a policy that people challenges to express them and to create new relationships. Social behaviour asks for flexibility and creativity, for being authentic and playing roles. Scientists, policymakers, social workers and citizens are in the same field and have access to the same knowledge.
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As labour is becoming more and more knowledge controlled, it also getting closer to the individual person. We sometimes seem to forget this. To an increasing extent it is becoming a part of oneself and therefore of the personal identity. The increasing humanization of labour asks for an HRM-policy and an organizational context in which the individual is able to identify with the organization, colleagues, customers/clients and product. Heterononimous or abstract organizations, organizations in which the employees and civilians have been reduced to numbers and in which there is no real consideration for the individual differences, have to make way for organizational structures in which the individual feels (self) responsible again. The future lies with personal, tribally inspired organizations in which managers will be leaders and where employees and managers can show social commitment. Images like that of: the egocentric boss who by making swift career moves avoids responsibility for employee/co-worker and customer/client; of colleagues taking the day off without consultation or who are putting their phone through to someone else without saying so beforehand, meeting rooms which are not being cleaned up after use and the image of a Xerox machine not being refilled up with paper by anyone, are all too frequently dismissed as not being part of productivity.
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Als de veiligheid verbetert, maar de Rotterdammers dat niet lijken te merken, schiet het veiligheidsbeleid tekort. Bij de behandeling van het nieuwe veiligheidsprogramma, #Veilig010 (Gemeente Rotterdam, 2013), werd een raadsbrede motie ingediend om te achterhalen wat achter deze ontwikkeling schuilgaat. En vooral natuurlijk, wat daaraan gedaan zou kunnen worden. Dus werd besloten tot een zogenaamde ‘brede consultatie’. Als Rotterdamse lector Publiek Vertrouwen in Veiligheid legt Marnix Eysink Smeets zich al geruime tijd toe op de vraag hoe burgers hun veiligheid ervaren, waardoor die ervaring wordt beïnvloed en – vooral – wat je als bestuur eraan kunt doen om de veiligheidsbeleving op een voldoende niveau te brengen of te houden.
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