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Education in the Netherlands, recent developments and the debate on integration and inclusion

Het artikel presenteert een analyse van de groei van het speciaal onderwijs in Nederland. De focus ligt daarbij op Weer Samen Naar School en Passend Onderwijs. De begrippen integratie en inclusie worden vanuit een internationaal perspectief besproken en geconstateerd wordt dat het Nederlandse onderwwijsbeleid niet gericht is op het realiseren van een inclusief onderwijssysteem.

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The influence of the indoor environment on people displaying challenging behaviour: a scoping review

BACKGROUND: The care sector for persons with disabilities considers the physical environment relevant for the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities. However, scientific evidence is limited. OBJECTIVE: To obtain evidence regarding comforting and encouraging environments and to develop an overview of studies addressing the effect of the physical environment on people with intellectual disabilities. METHODS: A scoping review, accompanied by expert panels and case findings combining scientific evidence and knowledge from practice, was performed to investigate the interaction between challenging behaviour and the physical environment. Between January and March 2020, several scientific databases were searched in the English, Dutch, and German language for relevant studies. Social media, care professionals, and experts in building physics were consulted. RESULTS: Studies on building-related factors as passive interventions and care- or therapy-related interventions could be distinguished. The majority of the studies report on building-related factors such as sound, acoustics, light, and colours and their influence on behaviour. Specific guidelines are lacking on how to adjust the indoor environment to an environment that is safe, comforting and encouraging for people displaying challenging behaviour. Proposed solutions are case-based. CONCLUSION: In future studies individual cases could be studied in a more in-depth manner, aligned and categorised to the building-related factors and to the expressions of challenging behaviour.

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Visuele beperking in het vizier

Voor de ondersteuning van personen met eenvisuele en (zeer) ernstige verstandelijke beperking(VEVB) is specifieke expertise nodig, welkeovergedragen kan worden door cursussen of directesamenwerking in dagelijkse werksituaties.Dit onderzoek heeft in kaart gebracht wat kenmerkenvan expertise zijn in de ondersteuningvan personen met VEVB, gericht op benaderingen inrichting van de fysieke omgeving, en inhoeverre professionals deze expertise explicietkunnen benoemen. 25 Kenmerken van expertisezijn bepaald door cursuscompetenties aan tevullen met bevindingen uit de literatuur en interviewsmet acht begeleiders. Het merendeel vande expertisekenmerken op het gebied van benaderingen fysieke omgeving wordt genoemddoor vijf of minder professionals. Drie van de 25kenmerken worden niet benoemd. Het explicietbenoemen van de specifieke expertise blijkt lastig.Met de bevindingen en aanbevelingen vandit onderzoek kunnen praktijk en onderzoek verbeteringenaanbrengen aan bewustwording enimplementatie van expertise waardoor de kwaliteitvan ondersteuning kan verbeteren.

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What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities

Visual research has historically been productive in foregrounding marginalised voices through photovoice as alternative to the written and oral forms of participation that dominate public participation. Photovoice projects have however been slow to leverage digital and spatial technologies for reworking the method in ways that enable geospatial analysis and collect structured metadata that can be used in workshops to bring different groups together around unpacking urban problems. The Urban Belonging project contributes to this by testing a new application, UB App, in an empirical study of how participants from seven marginalised communities in Copenhagen experience the city, including ethnic minorities, deaf, homeless, physically disabled, mentally vulnerable, LGBTQ+, and expats in Denmark. From a dataset of 1459 geolocated photos, co-interpreted by participants, the project first unpacks community-specific patterns in how the city creates experiences of belonging for different groups. Second, it examines how participants experience places differently, producing multilayered representations of conflicting viewpoints on belonging. The project hereby brings GIS and digital methods capabilities into photovoice and opens new epistemological flexibilities in the method, making it possible to move between; qualitative and quantitative analysis; bottom-up and top-down lenses on data; and demographic and post-demographic ways or organising participation.

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The participative society. Why social work professionals should focus on environment rather than behaviour

This text is structured as follows. Section 1 concerns the background to this public lecture: the fact that social participation is becoming increasingly important in our society. This is evident, for example, from the way we are evolving from a protective welfare state into an activational, participative society. This development has consequences for the social sector and therefore also for the professionals who work in it. Social work professionals are not necessarily expected to identify or solve participation problems; they are seen as intermediaries who enable citizens to take responsibility themselves. Social work professionals are therefore expected to provide the individual applicant with less direct support and to focus more on strengthening the social networks of people and the social contexts in which they find themselves. Section 2 connects sections 1 and 3, but may also be read independently. It is about the fact that social work professionals are not yet in the habit of providing systematic insight into the results of their actions, while policy makers, for example, are increasingly looking to them precisely for this. First of all, I set out the reasons why it is so important to make the products of their interventions more visible, not only to policy makers, but also to social work professionals themselves and to the customers/citizens who depend on them. Secondly, I set out how the results of social interventions can be made more visible than they are at present; and what research can contribute. In this, I advocate a change in thinking: from thinking in terms of the evidence to thinking in terms of the evident. This argument forms the basis of the type of research that is being taken up from within the research group. In section 3, I describe a number of research projects that will be conducted during my tenure. I also set out the main proposition of this address, which states that social work professionals should do more with the knowledge that peoples behaviour is determined to a significant degree by contexts. In particular, social contexts could play a bigger role in promoting citizen participation. At present, social work professionals normally intervene directly in peoples behaviour, such as with therapies for combating problem behaviour. Interventions in a broader, social, context are rare. Why is this? And couldnt citizen participation be more effectively promoted by these means than through direct behavioural interventions? I put forward four propositions in this regard, and explain each of them in reference to one of the current research projects within the research group. With this, in combination with the general outlines of the research presented in section 2, I hope to provide a clear and inspiring overview of the research that will be carried out within the research group in the coming years. Finally, in section 4, I will discuss the significance of the research group to the faculty of Society and Law at Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, and to parties outside of Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences.

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Comparative analysis on the implementation of Article 19 of United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Eight European Countries

The transition from institutional to community care for vulnerable people has been shaping the welfare system in Europe over the last decades. For the period of 2014-20, deinstitutionalisation became one oft he highlighted priorities oft he European Commission in order to promote reforms in disability and mental care in convergence regions, too. Between 2007 and 2013, Estonia as many other Eastern European countries implemented the first wave of deinstitutionalisation, and during the new EU budget period a second wave will be carried out in order to continue and hopefully complete the transition. In this study, we try to give an overview of the experiences of different European countries, highlighting good practices and possible pitfalls

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Comparative analysis on the implementation of Article 19 of United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Eight European Countries

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Deinstitutionalization and developing community based services. International overview

The transition from institutional to community care for vulnerable people has been shaping the welfare system in Europe over the last decades. For the period of 2014-20 deinstitutionalization became one of the highlighted priorities of the European Commission in order to promote reforms in disability and mental health care in the convergence regions, too. Between 2007 and 2013, Estonia as many other Eastern European countries has implemented the first wave of deinstitutionalization and during the new EU budget period a second wave will be occurred in order to continue and hopefully complete the transition. In this study, we try to give an overview on the experiences of different European countries highlighting good practices and possible pitfalls. This study has been conducted at the request of the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs.

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Inclusief Onderwijs op de grens van Europa en Azië: praktijk en perspectief

De vijfde Internationale conferentie over Inclusief Onderwijs werd gehouden in Azerbeidzjan op 14 en 15 oktober 2011. Dit verslag geeft een beeld van de conferentie en de informatie die daar werd gepresenteerd. Tevens wordt iets gezegd over actuele ontwikkelingen in Azerbeidzjan wat betreft de ontwikkeling van een meer inclusief onderwijssysteem en het verbeteren van de maatschappelijke positie van kinderen, jongeren en volwassenen met een beperking.

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IT-enabled Quality Management implementations in Small Healthcare Institutions

In the dynamic environment of increasing regulations, increasing patient demand, decentralization of budgets and enforcement of efficiency, small sized healthcare institutions in the Netherlands are having a difficult time. Although these service providers are usually capable of flexibly delivering healthcare, the investment and overhead for implementing and executing on required quality management standards like ISO 9001 is difficult. In this paper we construct a method for the implementation of an IT-enabled quality management system for small sized healthcare institutions, which is applied through case study. The case organisation provides intra- and extramural care for mentally handicapped persons and young adults with a psychiatric disorder. The quality management system implementation is based on 1) a lightweight IT infrastructure (based at a secure data centre and accessible through remote login) implying secure storage of patients' medical and personal information. Furthermore, the Deming (Deming, 1982) cycle enabled processes and protocols are 2) described in an e-handbook and prototyped via an open source process management system which supports the quality regulation demanded for providing care to patients. The case study supports the validity of our method and the fact that small sized healthcare institutions are able to execute their care while adhering to ISO 9001-like standards, with limited initial costs and relatively low cost of ownership

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The participative society. Why social work professionals should focus on environment rather than behaviour

Comparative analysis on the implementation of Article 19 of United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Eight European Countries

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The influence of the indoor environment on people displaying challenging behaviour: a scoping review

Visuele beperking in het vizier

What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities

The participative society. Why social work professionals should focus on environment rather than behaviour

Comparative analysis on the implementation of Article 19 of United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Eight European Countries

Deinstitutionalization and developing community based services. International overview

Inclusief Onderwijs op de grens van Europa en Azië: praktijk en perspectief

IT-enabled Quality Management implementations in Small Healthcare Institutions