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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project 12 April 2024
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this intervie...
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’ 04 March 2024
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry 21 November 2023
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She d...
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Why is higher education not making more use of Open Educational Resources? 15 September 2023
In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used. Marjon Baas, PhD student at ICLON...
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Increasing student participation in schools 01 September 2023
Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making on matters that affect them, including their education. Ben Smit, researcher at ICLON, s...
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Leiden researchers nominated for Klokhuis Science Prize 14 March 2023
Socialising with other people is an important part of feeling good. What do children need from their surroundings to do this? Adults usually determine...
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How do teachers learn in a work placement programme? 13 February 2023
Na Zhou (PhD at ICLON) researched how vocational teachers’ learning takes place in a work placement programme and how their learning supports their te...
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Implementing democratic education in Vietnamese schools 11 November 2022
Tinh Le (PhD at ICLON) researched the impact of confucian culture and socialist beliefs on stakeholders' beliefs about democratic education and its im...
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Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons 09 September 2022
A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the...
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Subject-specific building blocks keep teaching interesting 10 June 2022
Teachers have to find a balance between routine and renewal of their teaching repertoire. Eveline de Boer (PhD student at ICLON) investigated how dida...
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Journey through a maze: measuring learner-learner interaction 08 April 2022
What and how are we measuring in research of learner-learner interaction? Irena Galikyan (PhD candidate at ICLON) defends her dissertation on this sub...
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Collaborative learning in conservatoire education: Catalyst for innovation 28 March 2022
Which collaborative learning approaches already exist in conservatoire education, and how could such approaches be implemented? This is the subject of...
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Improving the prospects of at-risk youth 05 November 2021
How can mentors and social workers foster the vocational identity of at-risk youth and improve their prospects? This is the subject of Rineke Keijzer-...
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Motivation does not influence teaching quality 15 June 2021
Xin Zhang, PhD at ICLON, researched the relationship between teachers’ learning motivation and the quality of their teaching. Defence on 6 July.
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Technology integration in schools 15 June 2021
Jingxian Wang, PhD at ICLON, examined technology integration in primary and secondary education. Defence on 6 July.