Zoekresultaten

Does a Relational Spacial Ethnography open up other perspectives?

Often research, education and professional practice are positioned as different activities. Researchers, students and professionals are defined in subject-object relations. For my Phd. thesis I applied another perspective. In dialogue with School Social Workers, Bachelor Social Work students during their internship, Vocational High School (VHS) Teachers and other involved actants I worked on activities to improve the financial health of VHS students. We explored in a relational spacial ethnography the roles of all above mentioned actants as learning professional and inquirer. During this long term project a mixed method participatory approach was applied. However in this ethnography these activities where integral part of developing of a whole set of interventions. It gave us the opportunity to develop new perspectives at developing interventions and learning in a relational dialogue

Pedagogische c.q. Agogische Sensitiviteit

Aan de basis van leren ligt een pedagogische c.q. agogische relatie. Binnen deze relatie speelt Pedagogische c.q. Agogische Sensitiviteit een grote rol. Pedagogische c.q. Agogische Sensitiviteit is een begrip dat pedagogen en agogen direct herkennen en zich moeilijk laat vatten in verbale taal. Zoals in het volgende gesprek tussen een student van de lerarenopleiding en zijn praktijkbegeleider. Het gesprek gaat over het moment dat de leraar en de klas elkaar lijken te ‘betoveren’. De leerlingen en de leraar zijn op en top betrokken in een leerproces. ‘Hoe doe je dat?’ vraagt de student. ‘Tja …eigenlijk weet ik het niet, een kwestie van ‘timing’ en ‘fingerspitzengefulh’.’

De optimale blend: blended learning in context

Presentatie tijdens studiedag Blended Learning van Vereniging Hogescholen, Utrecht.

Panarchy power: from idea to impact

Food quality and quantity are more important in explaining foraging of an intermediate-sized mammalian herbivore than predation risk or competition

During times of high activity by predators and competitors, herbivores may be forced to forage in patches of low‐quality food. However, the relative importance in determining where and what herbivores forage still remains unclear, especially for small‐ and intermediate‐sized herbivores. Our objective was to test the relative importance of predator and competitor activity, and forage quality and quantity on the proportion of time spent in a vegetation type and the proportion of time spent foraging by the intermediate‐sized herbivore European hare (Lepus europaeus). We studied red fox (Vulpes vulpes) as a predator species and European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as a competitor. We investigated the time spent at a location and foraging time of hare using GPS with accelerometers. Forage quality and quantity were analyzed based on hand‐plucked samples of a selection of the locally most important plant species in the diet of hare. Predator activity and competitor activity were investigated using a network of camera traps. Hares spent a higher proportion of time in vegetation types that contained a higher percentage of fibers (i.e., NDF). Besides, hares spent a higher proportion of time in vegetation types that contained relatively low food quantity and quality of forage (i.e., high percentage of fibers) during days that foxes (Vulpes vulpes) were more active. Also during days that rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were more active, hares spent a higher proportion of time foraging in vegetation types that contained a relatively low quality of forage. Although predation risk affected space use and foraging behavior, and competition affected foraging behavior, our study shows that food quality and quantity more strongly affected space use and foraging behavior than predation risk or competition. It seems that we need to reconsider the relative importance of the landscape of food in a world of fear and competition.

Serendipity and retail

Is het proactieve zorgprogramma voor kwetsbare ouderen uitgevoerd zoals gepland? Een analyse van interventiegetrouwheid

Full text beschikbaar met HU-account. Het evalueren van de effectiviteit van een complexe interventie in een gerandomiseerde klinische trial is niet eenvoudig.1,2) In de literatuur wordt een interventie als effectief beschouwd wanneer er een positief resultaat op de primaire uitkomst is gevonden. Echter, om de validiteit en betrouwbaarheid van een interventie te beoordelen is kennis nodig over de mate waarin de interventie is uitgevoerd als gepland, ofwel de interventiegetrouwheid.3) Daarnaast geeft kennis over interventiegetrouwheid inzicht in hoeverre de implementatie succesvol was en daadwerkelijk een bijdrage heeft kunnen leveren aan de geobserveerde uitkomsten.

Management accounting and control systems as devices for public value creation in higher education

This paper investigates how management accounting and control systems (operationalized by using Simons’ (1995a) levers of control framework) can be used as devices to support public value creation and as such it contributes to the literature on public value accounting. Using a mixed methods case study approach, including documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, we found diverging uses of control systems in the Dutch university of applied sciences we investigated. While belief and interactive control systems are used intensively for strategy change and implementation, diagnostic controls were used mainly at the decentral level and seen as devices to make sure that operational and financial boundaries were not crossed. Therefore, belief and interactive control systems lay the foundation for the implementation of a new strategy, in which concepts of public value play a large role, using diagnostic controls to constrain actions at the operational level. We also found that whereas the institution wanted to have interaction with the external stakeholders, in daily practice this takes place only at the phase of strategy formulation, but not in the phase of intermediate strategy evaluation.

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