Business is changing from an industrial- to a knowledge-based environment, building more from professionals and their expertise. Corporations need to create internal organizations in which there is more emphasis on human capital and creating/sharing knowledge and talents. Talent management and knowledge creation should be new foci to create sustainability and long-term success. On the whole, organisations are working too much on an ad hoc basis, focusing on technology instead of creating an environment in which talents reinforce each other. In this review article we explore knowledge circulation, link knowledge, and talent to innovation, and discuss optimum circumstances for corporations to benefit from these assets.
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This book examines the much-debated question of how to unleash the potential of young people with promising intellectual abilities and motivation. It looks at the increasingly important topic of excellence in education, and the shift in focus towards the provision of programs to support talented students in higher education. It provides a systematic overview of programs for talented students at northern European higher education institutions (HEIs). Starting in the Netherlands, where nearly all HEIs have developed honors programs over the past two decades, the book explores three clusters of countries: the Benelux, the Nordic and the German-speaking countries. For each of these countries, it discusses the local culture towards excellence, the structure of the education system, and the presence of honors programs. In total, the book reviews the special talent provisions for nearly four million students at 303 higher education institutions in eleven countries. In addition, it offers an analysis of the reasons to develop such programs, a look into the future of honors education and a practical list of suggestions for further research.The Sirius Program assigned Marca Wolfensberger to carry out this research.
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Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether and how out-of-school science activities contribute to the elicitation, emergence, and development of pupils’ science talent. The context of this thesis is the Northern Netherlands Science Network, an alliance of primary schools, out-of-school science facilities, the university of Groningen, and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (www.wknn.nl). Interviews with the schools on their starting position showed that adequate communication between schools and out-of-school facilities is necessary to coordinate the participants’ educational goals. Secondly, the elicitation and expression of science talent was studied in the micro-interactions between pupils and their educator (classroom teacher or facility instructor). To do so, a multivariate coding scheme was developed to measure Pedagogical Content Knowledge expressed in real-time interaction (EPCK). The interaction shows a variable pattern over time. Sometimes episodes of high-level EPCK — so-called talent moments — emerge, in which talented pupil behavior in the form of pupils’ conceptual understanding, and talent elicitation by the educator in the form of open teaching focused on conceptual understanding, determine one another. These talent moments only occur in activities that were prepared in the classroom and with educators who were trained to evoke conceptual understanding. Under these conditions, out of school science activities can contribute to the elicitation and development of science talent in primary school pupils.AB - Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether and how out-of-school science activities contribute to the elicitation, emergence, and development of pupils’ science talent. The context of this thesis is the Northern Netherlands Science Network, an alliance of primary schools, out-of-school science facilities, the university of Groningen, and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (www.wknn.nl). Interviews with the schools on their starting position showed that adequate communication between schools and out-of-school facilities is necessary to coordinate the participants’ educational goals. Secondly, the elicitation and expression of science talent was studied in the micro-interactions between pupils and their educator (classroom teacher or facility instructor). To do so, a multivariate coding scheme was developed to measure Pedagogical Content Knowledge expressed in real-time interaction (EPCK). The interaction shows a variable pattern over time. Sometimes episodes of high-level EPCK — so-called talent moments — emerge, in which talented pupil behavior in the form of pupils’ conceptual understanding, and talent elicitation by the educator in the form of open teaching focused on conceptual understanding, determine one another. These talent moments only occur in activities that were prepared in the classroom and with educators who were trained to evoke conceptual understanding. Under these conditions, out of school science activities can contribute to the elicitation and development of science talent in primary school pupils.
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Poster presentation of proposal of PhD trajectory "Talent emerging in Learning Communities, exploring the role of peers". Talent development for all students in higher education is up on the (inter)national agenda. Talent, from a developmental view, is defined as the potential of individuals to excel in a particular domain given the optimal educational conditions. Within this framework, talent is seen as emergent, distributed and dynamic. This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of talent emergence and its antecedents, focusing on the role of peers in learning communities in higher education. A mixed-methods approach with a qualitative orientation will be adopted as this is well-suited to explore the intended phenomenon in depth.
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The question was posed how to bind talent (in the broadest sense of the word) to the labour-market region Groningen. In order to be able to study this question an attempt was made to make an inventory of available sources, their quality and usefulness. Apart from that several workshops were organized and interviews were held in order to get a glance of relevant development on of influencing the (structure of the) labour-market.
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Het Autisme Talent Avontuur is ontwikkeld in het kader van het project 1+1=3 ’t PASST Samen, een project gericht op het versterken van handelingskracht van leerkrachten en jeugdhulpverleners om in goede samenwerking met elkaar de betrokkenheid van kinderen met ASS in de klas te stimuleren.De handleiding is bedoeld voor de begeleider van het Autisme Talent Avontuur. Na het lezen van de handleiding, kan de begeleider het Autisme Talent Avontuur inzetten bij kinderen, studenten en/of onderwijszorgprofessionals. Er wordt verondersteld dat de begeleider parate kennis heeft rondom Autismespectrumstoornis. Om de kennis op te frissen, is er in deze handleiding kort beschreven wat er wordt verstaan onder een Autismespectrumstoornis.De complete set met handleiding, opdrachtkaarten en alle materialen is te lenen bij de Hanzehogeschool Groningen (lectoraat Jeugd, Educatie en Samenleving).Autisme Talent Avontuur is tot stand gekomen met medewerking van Retha Stegeman, Mariska de Peuter en Isabell Drewes.
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In onze 3e podcast van Talent Talk met daarin te gast Carolien Doesburg projectleider van Kansrijk opleiden en Jogchem Meinema projectmanager van Waterstof werkt gaan we in op de samenwerking met bedrijven in de regio en de verbinding met kennisinstellingen. Carolien en Jogchem vertellen hoe belangrijk het is om echt de regio in te gaan en om de scholen te bezoeken, om maatwerk te bieden en over welke uitdagingen er nog zijn.
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Weer een mooi gesprek voor Talent in de Regio! In deze nieuwe aflevering van Talent Talk hebben we Jakob Zwinderman projectleider IHOG en Debby Tohata projectleider van Kansen Verzilveren voor technisch vakmanschap te gast. In deze aflevering gaan we in op het belang van het behouden van vakkrachten in de techniek en het aantrekken van personeel en talent. Van Jakob leren we wat de mogelijkheden zijn van grondstoffen zoals magnesium, aardappelen en vezelhennep en de samenwerking die nodig is tussen ondernemers, onderwijs en onderzoek.
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