Het Knowledge Mile Park (KMP), momenteel de drukste verkeersader van Amsterdam, wordt de komende jaren uitgebreid vergroend. Op diverse locaties langs de KMP werd steekproefsgewijs hittemetingen uitgevoerd om hittestress op te sporen, verkoelingscapaciteit van het aanwezige groen te meten en het thermisch comfort van de KMP voor de gebruiker te inventariseren. Er werd volgens het Cool Towns Heat Stress Measurement Protocol (Spanjar e.a., 2020) hittemetingenuitgevoerd met mobiele weerstations, infraroodcamera’s en vragenlijsten. Uitgevoerd op twee opeenvolgende dagdelen tussen 17.00 tot 20.00 uur. Dit vond plaats op 21 en 22 augustus 2023 toen de luchttemperatuur 23-25 °C bereikte. De resultaten geven het hitteverloop van een milde warme zomerdag weer. Uit de enquête afgenomen onder KMP-gebruikers blijkt dat meer dan de helft van de respondenten op zowel het Weesperplein als het Wibautpark het als een beetje warm of neutraal ervaren. De meetresultaten komen overeen met Europees hitteonderzoek (Spanjar e.a., 2022) en laat zien dat op locaties in de zon zoals op het stenige Weesperplein en het grasveld, mensen tussen 17.00 en 18.30 uur te maken hebben gehad met een sterke tot extreme hittestress condities (35 tot 45 °C PET, zie Grafiek 1). Op de drie andere locaties verminderen boomkronen de hittestress tot licht of niet aanwezig. Verharde locaties blootgesteld aan de zon warmen op en verminderen het thermisch comfort verder door de werking van infraroodstraling. De uitkomsten van de enquête maakt het belang van het goed reguleren van het thermisch comfort op de KMP zichtbaar.
Teacher knowledge guides a teacher's behaviour in the classroom. Teacher knowledge for technology education is generally assumed to play an important role in affecting pupils' learning in technology. There are an abundant number of teacher knowledge models that visualise different domains of teacher knowledge, but clear empirical evidence on how these domains interact is lacking. Insights into the interaction of teacher knowledge domains could be useful for teacher training. In this study, the hypothesised relations between different domains of teacher knowledge for technology education in primary schools were empirically investigated. Subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy were measured with tests and questionnaires. Results from a path analysis showed that subject matter knowledge is an important prerequisite for both pedagogical content knowledge and self-efficacy. Subsequently, teachers' self-efficacy was found to have a strong influence on teachers' attitude towards technology. Based on the findings in this study, it is recommended that teacher training should first of all focus on the development of teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. This knowledge will positively affect teachers' confidence in teaching and, in turn, their attitude towards the subject. More confidence in technology teaching and a more positive attitude are expected to increase the frequency of technology education, which consequently increases teaching experience and thereby stimulates the development of teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. This circle of positive reinforcement will eventually contribute to the quality of technology education in primary schools.
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Introduction: Nowadays the Western mental health system is in transformation to recovery-oriented and trauma informed care in which experiential knowledge becomes incorporated. An important development in this context is that traditional mental health professionals came to the fore with their lived experiences. From 2017 to 2021, a research project was conducted in the Netherlands in three mental health organizations, focussing on how service users perceive the professional use of experiential knowledge. Aims: This paper aims to explore service users’ perspectives regarding their healthcare professionals’ use of experiential knowledge and the users’ perceptions of how this contributes to their personal recovery. Methods: As part of the qualitative research, 22 service users were interviewed. A thematic analysis was employed to derive themes and patterns from the interview transcripts. Results: The use of experiential knowledge manifests in the quality of a compassionate user-professional relationship in which personal disclosures of the professional’s distress and resilience are embedded. This often stimulates users’ recovery process. Conclusions: Findings suggest that the use of experiential knowledge by mental health professionals like social workers, nurses and humanistic counselors, demonstrates an overall positive value as an additional (re)source.
The Dutch floriculture is globally leading, and its products, knowledge and skills are important export products. New challenges in the European research agenda include sustainable use of raw materials such as fertilizer, water and energy, and limiting the use of pesticides. Greenhouse growers however have little control over crop growth conditions in the greenhouse at individual plant level. The purpose of this project, ‘HiPerGreen’, is to provide greenhouse owners with new methods to monitor the crop growth conditions in their greenhouse at plant level, compare the measured growth conditions and the measured growth with expected conditions and expected growth, to point out areas with deviations, recommend counter-measures and ultimately to increase their crop yield. The main research question is: How can we gather, process and present greenhouse crop growth parameters over large scale greenhouses in an economical way and ultimately improve crop yield? To provide an answer to this question, a team of university researchers and companies will cooperate in this applied research project to cover several different fields of expertise The application target is floriculture: the production of ornamental pot plants and cut flowers. Participating companies are engaged in the cultivation of pot plans, flowers and suppliers of greenhouse technology. Most of the parties fall in the SME (MKB) category, in line with the RAAK MKB objectives.Finally, the Demokwekerij and Hortipoint (the publisher of the international newsletter on floriculture) are closely involved. The project will develop new knowledge for a smart and rugged data infrastructure for growth monitoring and growth modeling in the greenhouse. In total the project will involve approximately 12 (teacher) researchers from the universities and about 60 students, who will work in the form of internships and undergraduate studies of interesting questions directly from the participating companies.
