This article aims to explore the moral ideas and experiences that students at Dutch universities of applied sciences (UAS) have of being a professional with an ‘ethical compass.’Semi-structured interviews were held with 36 fourth-year Bachelor students divided over four institutions and three different programmes: Initial Teacher Educa- tion, Business Services and Information and Communication Technology. Findings show that students say they strive to be(come) moral professionals, but that they have difficulties recognising and articulating the moral aspects of their professional roles. They seem to lack a moral vocabulary and the moral knowledge to verbalise their aspirations and to provide arguments to explicate or legitimise their moral behaviour. While most students were critical of the support they received from their universities, they indicated that various other role models and (work) experiences did have a strong and positive influence on their moral development. In this article, we reflect on the findings in relation to international empirical research on students’ moral development and highlight the characteristics of UAS students.
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This conceptual paper describes the role of research in bachelor programs at Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) . It presents a model for the integration of research activities into student assignments. The model makes it possible to distinguish between different levels of research. The model can be helpful in designing research education for professional bachelor students and developing practice-based assignments to assess research competences.
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Binnen het project Healthy Ageing & Law doen studenten van de opleidingen Sociaal Juridische Dienstverlening (SJD) en HBO-Rechten onderzoek op het gebied van recht, gezondheid en zorg. Meestal gaat het dan om het verplichte afstudeeronderzoek met een studielast van 840 uren (30 ec) waarmee de student minimaal 21 weken fulltime bezig is. Bij het afstudeeronderzoek begeleidt een van de afstudeerdocenten van het Instituut voor Rechtenstudies de student vanuit de opleiding. Zowel bij HBO-Rechten als bij SJD worden de studenten opgeleid tot Bachelor of Laws (LLB). In het project Healthy Ageing & Law combineren deze studenten de juridische kennis en vaardigheden van de opleiding met hun enthousiasme voor het thema Healthy Ageing.
