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.
News highlights
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A film by Sonia Di Stefano
This film is produced for a course Video for Data Collection ELS67400 as one of the final assignments. The course is taught and coordinated by Angela... -
Analysing farmers’ learning for socio-ecological stewardship in Eastern Uganda: A transformative learning ecology perspective
This paper analyses how smallholder farmers are learning for socio-ecological stewardship in a specific case study context in Eastern Uganda. -
New colleague Jelle de Swart joins ELS
Jelle de Swart joined ELS per August 2023. -
New colleague Joanne Leerlooijer joins ELS
Joanne Leerlooijer joins ELS per August 2023. -
Personal, Reflective and Artistic Students’ Initiatives
Within our WU course (ELS 21806), focusing on cultivating (inter) personal empowerment in the midst of socio-ecological challenges, we invite our...
Ongoing (PhD-) projects
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Agroecological Logbooks: Transgressing the reality of rural women in the North-East of Brazil through learning
The feminist and agroecological movement in Brazil and its grassroots innovations focus strongly on collective learning as a way to strengthen... -
SWITCH - Healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour among secondary school students
The current global food system poses a risk to individual wellbeing and leads to various environmental pressures. Given the highly interrelated nature... -
Evaluation of Educational Technology Innovations at WUR
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Pedagogical Development programmes in Higher Education
In this proposed PhD research we aim to gain more insight into the relationship between characteristics of Pedagogical Development Programmes (PDP)... -
Samen Opleiden
Het opleiden van nieuwe leraren is belangrijker dan ooit. Het lerarentekort loopt immers alleen maar op. Terwijl studenten aan de lerarenopleiding de...
Publications
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Fostering oral presentation competence in higher education
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): M. Mulder, co-promotor(en): H.J.A. Biemans; J.T.M. Gulikers. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463439633 - p. -
The role of VET Colleges in stimulating teachers’ engagement in team learning
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): M. Mulder, co-promotor(en): P. Runhaar; R. Wesselink. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463437066 - p. -
Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): A.E.J. Wals, co-promotor(en): G.R. Biesbroek; Le Thi Hoa Sen. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463438018 - p. -
Learning and corporate social responsibility : a study on the role of the learning organization, individual competencies, goal orientation and the learning climate in the CSR adaptation process
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Martin Mulder, co-promotor(en): Renate Wesselink; Vincent Blok. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462579774 - p. -
Towards competence-based technical-vocational education and training in Ethiopia
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Martin Mulder, co-promotor(en): Renate Wesselink; Omid Noroozi. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789462579002 - p.