The impact of organized youth sport on youth development depends on various conditions in the pedagogical climate, such as how sport is delivered by youth sport coaches. While this is broadly acknowledged and provides a basis to improve youth sport and its developmental outcomes, little is known about the pedagogical perspectives of youth coaches on their practice. This study uses semi-structured interviews with 32 youth sport coaches in diverse youth sport contexts in the Netherlands. Reflexive data analysis is employed to garner insights into coaches’ role perceptions, coaching goals, and underlying values. The findings show that while youth coaches focus on sport-centered activities, many foreground non-sport dimensions such as life mentoring and working towards social inclusion as critical elements of their work, reflected in five pedagogically-oriented goals: discipline, autonomy, resilience, social abilities, and aspirations. Underlying these goals are pedagogical values such as building and maintaining caring relationships with participants. These goals and values echo scientific literature on pedagogical sport climate conditions (e.g. positive youth development), and challenge notions of youth sport as a performance-oriented and uncaring setting. The results contribute to existing knowledge about youth coaches’ pedagogical orientations, and inform the development of strategies to stimulate positive sport practices and developmental outcomes for participants.
In today’s foreign language (FL) education, teachers universally recognise the importance of fostering students’ ability to communicate in the target language. However, the current assessments often do not (sufficiently) evaluate this. In her dissertation, Charline Rouffet aims to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. Communicative learning objectives FL teachers fully support the communicative learning objectives formulated at national level and embrace the principles of communicative language teaching. Yet, assessments instead primarily focus on formal language knowledge in isolation (e.g., grammar rules), disconnected from real-world communicative contexts. This misalignment between assessment practices and communicative objectives hampers effective FL teaching. CBA toolbox The aim of this design-based PhD research project is to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. To this end, tools for developing communicative classroom-based assessment (CBA) programmes were designed and implemented in practice, in close collaboration with FL teachers. Rouffet's dissertation consists of multiple studies, in which the current challenges of FL education are addressed and the usage of the CBA toolbox is investigated. Findings reveal that assessing FL competencies in a more communicative way can transform teaching practices, placing communicative abilities at the heart of FL education.
Research into how and why language teachers use literature as content is presented to explore one aspect of various pedagogical and collaborative practices open to language teachers in CLIL contexts. Language teachers’ beliefs and practices are examined based on a literature review, focus group study, survey, and multiple-case study.The question how and why language teachers shape practices using literature as content is considered, drawing on research into the pedagogical and collaborative practices of language teachers in CLIL contexts. The presentation brings together findings from a literature review, focus group study, survey, and multiple-case study to exemplify and explain the practices of language teachers in CLIL who turn to literature as their content. A dynamic framework for locating and explicating the pedagogical and collaborative practices of language teachers in CLIL contexts (Dale, Oostdam, & Verspoor, 2017) derived from a literature review is presented. The views of different stakeholders in CLIL in the Netherlands in relation to the teaching of literature, based on a focus group study are discussed (Dale, Oostdam, & Verspoor, 2018a). The findings of a survey into the stated beliefs and practices of Teachers of English in Bilingual Streams (TEBs) in the Netherlands with regard to the teaching of literature (Dale, Oostdam, & Verspoor, 2018b) are presented. Two case descriptions representing prototypical practices of language teachers taking literature as content are introduced (Dale, Oostdam, & Verspoor, submitted). ]
Society continues to place an exaggerated emphasis on women's skins, judging the value of lives lived within, by the colour and condition of these surfaces. This artistic research will explore how the skin of a painting might unpack this site of judgement, highlight its objectification, and offer women alternative visualizations of their own sense of embodiment. This speculative renovation of traditional concepts of portrayal will explore how painting, as an aesthetic body whose material skin is both its surface and its inner content (its representations) can help us imagine our portrayal in a different way, focusing, not on what we look like to others, but on how we sense, touch, and experience. How might we visualise skin from its ghostly inner side? This feminist enquiry will unfold alongside archival research on The Ten Largest (1906-07), a painting series by Swedish Modernist Hilma af Klint. Initial findings suggest the artist was mapping traditional clothing designs into a spectral, painterly idea of a body in time. Fundamental methods research, and access to newly available Af Klint archives, will expand upon these roots in maps and women’s craft practices and explore them as political acts, linked to Swedish Life Reform, and knowingly sidestepping a non-inclusive art history. Blending archival study with a contemporary practice informed by eco-feminism is an approach to artistic research that re-vivifies an historical paradigm that seems remote today, but which may offer a new understanding of the past that allows us to also re-think our present. This mutuality, and Af Klint’s rhizomatic approach to image-making, will therefore also inform the pedagogical development of a Methods Research programme, as part of this post-doc. This will extend across MA and PhD study, and be further enriched by pedagogy research at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles, and Konstfack, Stockholm.
Taking artistic, creative and pedagogic experience as perspectives, the research will consider the embodiment of rhythm and duration as experienced by practicing musicians and utilized by composers, exploring neurophysiological questions such as how temporal resolution relates to human physiology, the relationship between speed and emotion and how musicians keep track of time. The expressive qualities of speed in music will be explored, taking into account practices of performance, composition and notation.
Werkplekleren is een belangrijk onderdeel van beroepsopleidingen. Toch weten we weinig over hoe de beroepspraktijk (community) het leren van studenten op de werkplek ondersteunt. Wij onderzoeken de begeleiding van studenten en beginnende beroepsbeoefenaren door opleiders op de werkplek.Doel De werkplek biedt een krachtige leeromgeving voor studenten om zich een beroep eigen te maken. Er is veel onderzoek gedaan naar werkplekleren, maar weinig is bekend over de wijze waarop begeleidingsstrategieën worden gehanteerd om het werkplekleren van beginners te ondersteunen. Het doel van dit promotieonderzoek is om meer specifiek inzicht te krijgen in begeleiding op de werkplek. We zoeken een antwoord op de onderzoeksvraag: hoe ondersteunt de beroepspraktijk het leren op de werkplek van studenten fysiotherapie en verpleegkunde? Resultaten Rondetafelgesprek Begeleiden van het leren op de werkplek tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Antwerpen, juni 2017. Posterpresentatie 'Pedagogic practices in vocational communities to support novices workplace learning' tijdens de EARLI-SIG-14 conferentie in Genève, september 2018. Bijdrage aan postersymposium 'Leren en begeleiden van beroepsonderwijs', 'Werkpplekleren begeleiden van beginnende beroepsbeoefenaren' tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen in Heerlen, juni 2019. Publicatie Ceelen, L., Khaled, A., & de Bruijn, E. (2019). Begeleiden van studenten op de werkplek. Onderwijs en Gezondheidszorg, 43(5), 12-15. Looptijd 01 september 2016 - 01 februari 2021 Aanpak Dit promotieonderzoek betreft een samenwerking tussen de OU en het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs. De promotor vanuit de OU is prof. dr. Elly de Bruijn (ook lector Beroepsonderwijs), co-promotor is dr. Anne Khaled (tot september 2022 onderzoeker bij het lectoraat Beroepsonderwijs, nu aan het lectoraat Responsief Beroepsonderwijs (HAN) verbonden). Tijdens het promotieonderzoek voeren we een systematische literatuurstudie uit naar wat er al bekend is over het begeleiden van het leren op de werkplek van studenten en beginnende beroepsbeoefenaren. We voeren een veldstudie (met observaties en interviews) uit naar de begeleiding van studenten fysiotherapie en verpleegkunde tijdens hun stage.
