Teacher professional identity is conceptualized in this chapter as a complex configuration of personal and contextual factors. Professional identity is also seen as dynamic and subject to change. This coloring of the concept leads here to a specific elaboration of research with regard to (student) teachers’ identity formation. This research then focuses on (student) teachers working on issues arising from tensions between the personal and the contextual, the ways in which they position themselves toward relevant others, the impact of the micropolitical reality of the school on their functioning and well-being, and the role so-called “stories to live by” play in their work. The operationalization of the concept is illustrated by two studies in which the complexity and uniqueness of (the development of) professional identity have been investigated using narrative methods and techniques. This chapter also distinguishes between two different but related internal processes that are important in teacher education, namely professional learning internalizing knowledge and skills that are generally found to be relevant for the profession, i.e., teaching competence) and identity formation (a personal process of validating learning experiences in light of one’s “image-ofself-as-teacher,” that is, the teacher that one is and wants to become). It is argued that both processes can reinforce and enrich each other and, as such, will result in a more comprehensive and coherent framework for understanding teachers’ professional work and their development as teachers. An attempt is made to present both internal processes in an overarching model, referred to here as “framework of professional identity learning.” The chapter concludes with suggestions for (follow-up) research.
Many of today’s challenges that confront society are complex and dynamic and require new perspectives, new ways of looking at problems and issues, in order to be able to come to solutions that could not be found before. This process is called reframing and we suggest that one of the key stages in this process is thematic research, the search for themes that underlie these complex challenges. These themes generally turn out to be human themes, related to socio-emotional aspects of life. In this paper we report our experiences and lessons learned from a series of cases in which we experimented with various approaches to do this thematic research.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has been a forerunner of the airline industry since 1919. As the oldest operating airline to date, the company aims to become innovators of today. This paper proposes an addition to the KLM transformation projects: Moving Your World, The Digital Transformation, and The KLM Real Estate Vision. This addition is a concept for ‘The Winning Way of Working,’ which aims to create a holistic workplace design; one where KLM employees are able to experience flexible and customizable environments, disconnection between colleagues and locations is reduced, and health benefits of vegetation in work environments are promoted.
MULTIFILE
The energy transition is a highly complex technical and societal challenge, coping with e.g. existing ownership situations, intrusive retrofit measures, slow decision-making processes and uneven value distribution. Large scale retrofitting activities insulating multiple buildings at once is urgently needed to reach the climate targets but the decision-making of retrofitting in buildings with shared ownership is challenging. Each owner is accountable for his own energy bill (and footprint), giving a limited action scope. This has led to a fragmented response to the energy retrofitting challenge with negligible levels of building energy efficiency improvements conducted by multiple actors. Aggregating the energy design process on a building level would allow more systemic decisions to happen and offer the access to alternative types of funding for owners. “Collect Your Retrofits” intends to design a generic and collective retrofit approach in the challenging context of monumental areas. As there are no standardised approaches to conduct historical building energy retrofits, solutions are tailor-made, making the process expensive and unattractive for owners. The project will develop this approach under real conditions of two communities: a self-organised “woongroep” and a “VvE” in the historic centre of Amsterdam. Retrofit designs will be identified based on energy performance, carbon emissions, comfort and costs so that a prioritisation strategy can be drawn. Instead of each owner investing into their own energy retrofitting, the neighbourhood will invest into the most impactful measures and ensure that the generated economic value is retained locally in order to make further sustainable investments and thus accelerating the transition of the area to a CO2-neutral environment.
Many entrepreneurs on Texel want to onboard nature into their business. While a legal toolkit is available (“Onboarding Nature”), they still struggle to bring in the perspective of nature and future generations into their activities in a meaningful way. Representing this shared need, the National Park Duinen van Texel initiated a quest: How can local businesses (including the National Park’s Gastheren) on Texel effectively onboard Nature and Future Generations into their companies in order to secure thriving ecosystem? Realizing that a growing number of businesses are ready to consider an eco-centric perspective on how they run their operations, they feel unequipped to make the change. Therefore drawing on the “Onboarding Nature” toolkit (www.onboardingnature.com), the research team seek to tackle the question: How can we establish new methodologies for mindset shifts that help local businesses on Texel move from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric perspective that fosters ecosystemic regeneration for Future Generations of all Life? Through participatory, art and design-based research methodologies the project explores how entrepreneurs incorporate nature’s voice into both their strategic planning and daily operations. The expected result is a guidebook with practices and materials that support reframing towards an ecocentric perspective when Onboarding Nature. Results will complement the existing “Onboarding Nature” toolkit. By the end of the project, Texel’s entrepreneurs will co-develop the tools and gained experiences to become guardians of a thriving ecosystem, including (future) humans. This initiative will serve as a scalable model for other National Parks, empowering them to adopt a similar transformative approach. Partners: • Center of Expertise Wellbeing Economy and New Entrepreneurship Avans University of Applied Sciences • Center of Expertise Digital Operations & Finance The Hague University of Applied Sciences • De Organisatie Activist, • National Park Duinen van Texel • World Ethic Forum, • Nyenrode Business University • Nature
It is no wonder that the Academy for Leisure & Events is a key partner within the STEPup project which involves studying, reframing and designing for social entrepreneurship, social innovation and business modelling.The project looks at social entrepreneurship (SE) as the process of applying innovative business models to address social problems (for people and communities) by achieving both profit and purpose. SE creates long-term value and generates sustainable impact for society and the connected ecosystem.The experts of BUas together with the project consortium will be involved in developing, delivering and evaluating training modules for social entrepreneurs, developing a Good Practice catalogue on successful social enterprises in Europe, creating and sustaining a collaborative network based on real-life cases together with academia, social enterprise industry and impact assessment stakeholders.Collaborating partners:FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences (Austria), Cracow University of Economics (Poland), Payap University (Thailand), Burapha University (Thailand), Prince of Songkla University (Thailand), Mahasarakham University (Thailand), University of Mandalay (Myanmar), National Management Degree College (Myanmar), Chiang Mai Social Enterprise Company Ltd (Thailand), Agarwood Farmer Group (Thailand).
