written by Prof. Karen Seashore Louis, University of Minnesota (USA) I have had a circuitous journey to a presentation that will focus on how dynamic and positive relationships support teachers and students. In the early 1990s, I challenged my teacher, school leader, and scholarly colleagues to reconsider almost everything that was being written about school…
Education is an often-researched field. Valuable insights from research are not sufficiently embedded in practice, yet, because not all studies are in line with educational practice. This is a missed opportunity for both science and practice. POINT brings these worlds together in order to improve the value of research and to enhance tailored education. POINT means…
Skillnet– Sector Skills Network of VET centres in Advanced Manufacturing project is a KA3- Support for Policy Reform project, co-financed by the European Commission and covering the whole EU-27 territory plus several countries outside the EU borders. It aims at: Encouraging the creation of transnational and national TVET providers’ networks and partnerships to improve the…
article written byMarit Kulild, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Campus Stord, Norway,Francine Behnen, NHL Stenden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands What happens when two teacher educators must adapt their “Playgrounds” to COVID-19 pandemic in their respective countries? They both welcome teachers’ students in their first year of teacher training and seek ways to ‘set the stage’ for sound teacher…
article written by the EAPRIL Cloud 11 and the EAPRIL Cloud 13 As previously in several EAPRIL meetings, our joined Cloud 11 and 13 fishbowl for starting practitioners-researchers showed that practice-based research goes hand in hand with professional dilemmas of researchers and practitioners. This time, however, we noticed that beginning researchers may also experience such…
Call for abstracts Thematic Track – Cloud 14 EAPRIL Egide PHM Maassen & Marieke E Veltman The world of work is changing. Wicked problems such as the design of smart cities, diversity ineducation, sustainable development, and social inequality, increasingly require professionals toengage in collaborative, boundary crossing, and non-linear approaches in multiple-stakeholdercontexts (Akkerman & Bakker, 2011;…
Zooooooooooooooooom in on subjects voted upon by EAPRIL community for exchange, discussion, and finding creative solutions to: Social & learning spaces – Tuesday, April 20th , 2021 – 13h15-14h00 CEST Student & Faculty well-being – Thursday, May 27th, 2021 – 13h15-14h00 CEST Co-construction of knowledge – Thursday, July1st, 2021 – 13h15-14h00 CEST Generative coach –…
In the beginning of the current COVID-19 epoch online teaching was booming. However, currently many teachers are thinking about ways to make the ‘talking heads’ on the students’ screens more interactive. Teachers search for ‘active learning’ possibilities. One of those possibilities is the use of video tools in a way that contributes to developing conceptual…
Article written by Marit Kulild, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Bergen, Norway and Francine Behnen, NHL Stenden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands In our previous blogpost we described how we found common ground in innovations and improvements that are currently taking place in teacher training at both our institutes through the metaphor of a ‘playground’. Metaphors bring with them certain well-defined expectations,…
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