Education and Learning Sciences (ELS)
Sustainable development was already in the core of our mission. However due to ongoing global challenges we felt the need to rethink our mission. Our new mission is to understand and facilitate the unfolding of human potential in response to global challenges. This means that we want to understand and facilitate learners throughout their lives to contribute to worldwide challenges in a meaningful, responsible and critical manner. Hereby, we realize that sustainable development is more than just knowledge creation and innovation, it concerns the drive of individuals and groups. This drive is reflected in the so-called Inner Development Goals, which concern skills and qualities such as being, thinking, relating, collaborating and acting. In our research and education the development of these inner development goals will be put central to create impact for a more sustainable world. While rethinking our mission we invited our former colleague Hasse Cox to make drawings based on our thinking. This resulted in a nice illustration reflecting our mission in a comprehensive way.
Publications
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When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs
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Online peer feedback in higher education : A synthesis of the literature
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The effects of comprehensive competenceābased training on competence development and performance improvement of smallholder farmers: An Ethiopian case study
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Vocational education for a sustainable future: Unveiling the collaborative learning narratives to make space for learning
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Teacher professional learning and development in the context of educational innovations in higher education : A typology of practices