Senior co-housing communities offer an in-between solution for older people who do not want to live in an institutional setting but prefer the company of their age peers. Residents of co-housing communities live in their own apartments but undertake activities together and support one another. This paper adds to the literature by scrutinizing the benefits and drawbacks of senior co-housing, with special focus on the forms and limits of social support and the implications for the experience of loneliness. Qualitative fieldwork was conducted in eight co-housing communities in the Netherlands, consisting of document analysis, interviews, focus groups, and observations. The research shows that co-housing communities offer social contacts, social control, and instrumental and emotional support. Residents set boundaries regarding the frequency and intensity of support. The provided support partly relieves residents’ adult children from caregiving duties but does not substitute formal and informal care. Due to their access to contacts and support, few residents experience social loneliness. Co-housing communities can potentially also alleviate emotional loneliness, but currently, this happens to a limited degree. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for enhancing the benefits and reducing the drawbacks of senior co-housing. Original article at MDPI; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193776
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Abstract Despite the large amount of research available on how engagement in football practice relates to future performance level among football players, similar information about the contribution of non-football activities is scarce. Based on data from 745 elite youth players this study aimed to identify the characteristics and contribution of diverse participation towards elite youth and senior professional status. The data were collected using a retrospective questionnaire where the players reported the amount of time spent in other sports than football, in addition to their perceived contribution of different non-football activities for developing football skills. The accumulated hours of time spent in other sports of players who had obtained a senior professional contract were compared to non-professional players, using multilevel modelling (n = 558), while a t-test compared the activity ratings to each other. No significant differences were identified between professional and non-professional players' engagement history, but overall, the players rated sports similar to football to be significantly more relevant for developing football skills than other sports. The results suggests that spending time in non-football activities did not contribute to present differences in performance attainment in football, but also that potential advantages of such activities may be related to their characteristics.
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A systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted to assess the prevalence of automatically listing (a) senior member(s) of a department as co-author(s) on all submitted articles in health sciences and the prevalence of degrees of support on a 5-point justification scale. Survey research was searched in PubMed, Lens.org, and Dimensions.ai. until January 5 2023. We assessed the methodological quality of studies and conducted quantitative syntheses. We identified 15 eligible surveys, that provided 67 results, all of which were rated as having low quality. A pooled estimate of 20% [95% CI 16–25] (10 surveys, 3619 respondents) of researchers in various health sciences reported that a senior member of their department was automatically listed as an author on all submitted articles. Furthermore, 28% [95% CI 22–34] of researchers (10 surveys, 2180 respondents) felt that this practice was ‘never’, 24% [95% CI 22–27] ‘rarely’, 25% [95% CI 23–28] ‘sometimes’, 13% [95% CI 9–17] ‘most of the time’, and 8% [95% CI 6–9] ‘always justified’. The practice of automatically assigning senior members of departments as co-authors on all submitted manuscripts may be common in the health sciences; with those admitting to this practice finding it unjustified in most cases.Registration of the protocol The protocol was registered in Open Science Framework. Link: https://osf.io/4eywp/.
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Medewerkers en studenten in het hoger onderwijs zeggen veel te leren van congresdeelname. Tot op heden echter zijn die leerervaringen nauwelijks systematisch in kaart gebracht. We weten ook weinig over verschillen daarbij tussen junior- en senior congresdeelnemers, ofwel deelnemers die eerder nog weinig of juist veel congressen bezochten. In deze exploratieve casestudy interviewden betrokkenen van ons onderzoeksteam (N = 9) elkaar voor en na bezoek aan de OnderwijsResearchDagen 2018 (ORD) over hun leerverwachtingen en leerervaringen. Via thematische codering resulteerde dit in leerverwachtingen en leerervaringen die verschillen tussen junioren en senioren. Junioren richten hun leerverwachtingen op hun eigen ervaringen binnen de microsetting van de afzonderlijke sessies, waarbij ze vooral binnen de congresstructuur hun leren plaatsen. De senioren beschouwen een congres meer als een geheel en zien het congres in een grotere context van de discipline of het vakgebied, waarbinnen ze hun leerervaringen rapporteren. Hierbij zetten ze de congressetting meer naar hun hand en zijn ze meer dan junioren gericht op de ontwikkeling van anderen. De resultaten van dit kleinschalige onderzoek kunnen congresdeelnemers en - organisatoren meer inzicht geven in het leren van congresbezoek en daarmee helpen in het benutten van congresdeelname als professionaliseringsvorm.
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Abstract This research presents a descriptive study regarding collaborative learning in a multicultural classroom at a vocational education school in The Netherlands. The study bridges two domains of research: research on culturally diverse learning environments - which has mostly concerned primary and general secondary education - and studies on collaborative learning. It analyzes current practices and perceptions of both teachers and students applying collaborative learning in a culturally diverse, competence-based learning environment. The results suggest that in a multicultural classroom, students, on the one hand, are mostly focused on their individual performance, resulting in poor collaboration among classmates. On the other hand, teachers seem unaware of their own role in affecting students' behavior and the influence of the cultural backgrounds of students on collaborative learning processes.
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Recently, more students have entered Dutch higher education. This is a consequence of the possibility to offer students to enter higher education, with a certificate from senior secondary education (SSVE). In earlier days most students in higher education had passed senior general secondary education (SGSE), or even pre-university education. It is to be expected that these 'new' students approach learning in a different way compared to the 'traditional' students in higher education. The goal of this study was to examine the possible differences between the two groups of students mentioned, and to gain insights in the role possible differences play in the way the two groups of students approach learning. Students' personality characteristics, regulation strategies, learning conceptions and motivational orientations were studied in relation to study approaches. It was assumed that patterns of relations between the variables mentioned would be different for the two groups of students. More specifically, it was expected to find stronger and more crystallised relations between variables within the group of SSVE-students. Indeed, when entering Higer Education, SSVE students scored higher than SGSE students on the personality variables autonomy and conscientiousness; as to their personal orientations on learning and instruction they were more self-test oriented and they scored higher on concrete processing and construction of knowledge. However, the strength and direction of the relations between the variables are the same for both groups. Our findings increase insights into relations between students' personalities and their approaches to learning when entering higher education; this concerns two groups of students from different educational backgrounds. Practically this implies that intake assessments considering personality and self-knowledge might help teachers, coaches and policy makers in advising students how to appraoch learning, when entering higher education. Copyright Elsevier Inc.
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Smart home technology has been introduced as a potential solution to support ageing in place, to enhance the quality of life of residents, or to decrease the workload of professionals. The ability of smart home technology is to monitor the activity of daily living and safety of residents. The aim of this study is to get insight into the use of smart home technology and implementation in healthcare facilities. Preliminary results show that healthcare facilities have become aware of the added value of smart home technology in small scale senior accommodations to enhance the quality of care and to contribute to the quality of life of residents. Further research is needed to explore how smart home technology contribute to the quality of life and how it influence the workload of professionals.
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Meaning-making and sense-making are generally assumed to be part of students’ personal vocational knowledge development, since they contribute to both students’ socialisation in a vocation and students’ personalisation of concepts, values and beliefs regarding that vocation. However, how students in vocational education acquire meaning and make sense of vocational knowledge is not explained. Furthermore, examples of what these processes entail in the context of vocational education are lacking. A multiple case study was performed to explore students’ meaning-making and sense-making in classroom interactions in Dutch senior secondary vocational education. Our results show that meaning-making is a process in which students interpret vocational knowledge by explicating and clarifying this knowledge. Sense-making is perceived to be a process in which students concretise vocational knowledge by testing and justifying this knowledge. A research model was developed to describe how students make meaning and sense of vocational knowledge in interaction with practitioners.
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Hogescholen staan voor een grote uitdaging. Volgens de Referentieraming 2010 van het ministerie van OCW zal het aantal HBO studenten de komende jaren fors groeien. Dit gaat gepaard met een toename in vraag naar arbeid (docenten). Daarnaast moet een vervanging van arbeid gerealiseerd worden als gevolg van de uitstroom van oudere werknemers uit het HBO (Zestor, 2009). Bovendien maken hogescholen een transitie door van onderwijsorganisatie naar een kennisorganisatie. Dit alles heeft grote gevolgen voor het HRM-beleid van de komende jaren. Een van de grootste uitdagingen is het opbouwen van een personeelsbestand met voldoende gekwalificeerde medewerkers. In dit kader heeft het lectoraat Organisatieconfiguraties en Arbeidsrelaties van de HU in samenwerking met Bureau Talent (het loopbaan - en professionaliseringsbureau van de Hogeschool Utrecht) een inventariserend kwalitatief onderzoek uitgevoerd onder docenten in de leeftijd van 45 jaar en ouder.
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Congresbezoek is een manier om (vak-)kennis en vaardigheden te actualiseren en te netwerken. We weten nog weinig over verschillen in hoe junioren en senioren zich professionaliseren door congresbezoek. Dit onderzoek biedt inzicht in leerdoelen en –ervaringen van de verschillende leden van een onderzoeksteam bij hun bezoek aan de OnderwijsResearchDagen (ORD) 2018 (N = 9). Voor en na het congresbezoek zijn participanten geïnterviewd, waarna op basis van thematische coderingop groepsniveau thema’s naar voren kwamen. De resultaten laten zien dat junioren vooral nieuwe kennis op willen doen en de praktijk van een congres willen leren kennen. Senioren willen vooral kennis bijhouden en melden uiteenlopende leerervaringen. Dergelijk inzicht kan congresorganisatoren helpen hun evenement te laten aansluiten bij verschillende professionaliseringsbehoeften.
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