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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NIE Conference ‘BounderyCrossing: Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
Looking back on our NIE conference 'Boundary Crossing: Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning' -
New doctor: Megawanti
The PhD defence on 13 November 2023 presented study that emphasizes the critical importance of researching access to and equity in higher education,... -
New colleague Franceina van Zalk joined ELS per November 2023
I'm very pleased and excited to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Franceina van Zalk, and I have recently started as an external PhD... -
Marieke Versteijlen successfully defended her PhD thesis at Wageningen University and Research on 10 November 2023, entitled Blended learning in higher education from a sustainability perspective.
This study addresses the high environmental impact of students commuting to the higher educational institution (HEI) by exploring the potential of... -
The Gelderse Onderwijs Vallei: promising joint education
Major teacher shortages, dropouts and little enthusiasm for teacher training: education is struggling. -
Pedagogical development programmes in Higher education: a systematic literature review.
Every year, multiple higher education teachers are participating in courses to professionalise as teachers. In the Netherlands, for example in the... -
New Doctor: Marijke Veugen
In secondary education in the Netherlands many forms of assessment are in summative ways at the end of the learning process, such as tests for grades.... -
Tenure track on ‘Teaching and learning for the development and unfolding of human potential for sustainability'
On 1 August 2023, I started my tenure track position on ‘Teaching and learning for the development and unfolding of human potential for...
Ongoing (PhD-) projects
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Fishery governance, practices and learning at international, nationaland community level on the Namibian and Zambian side of the Kwando River
Understanding governance of transboundary rivers in Southern Africa has become of interest due to different water interests of countries and weak... -
Improve Students’ Communicative Performance in an Intercultural Context by Improving Their Intercultural Communication Competence
Chinese students are generally facing challenges in intercultural communication while the challenges are rarely addressed efficiently, and this... -
Ondernemerschapsonderwijs op het MBO, HBO en WO in regio’s Utrecht en Wageningen
Om nieuwe werkgelegenheid te stimuleren, maatschappelijke kwesties aan te pakken en economische groei te bewerkstellingen heeft RVO als doel om een... -
Exploring the Role of Externalization of Shared Values for Sustainability Transformation: Empirical Lessons from China
This work is an in-depth exploration to unravel the roles/potential of the externalization of shared values in facilitating sustainability... -
Higher economic education and mindset shift toward sustainable business
My name is Franceina van Zalk, and I have recently started as an external PhD candidate at ELS. -
Integrating Ethics in Climate Change Education
The Anthropocene brings novel challenges both in science and education. My PhD-project focuses on dealing with value-laden topics in higher education,... -
LOESS project
An educational ecosystem to raise soil awareness
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From anxiety to self-efficacy: Daring spaces as learning environments for living labs
Living labs are relatively new learning environments in which students work self-directed on real-life, wicked problems. -
Educational Research in Educational Innovations to Stimulate Adaptive Performance
The research team consisting of Yvette Baggen (WUR), Frank van Rijnsoever (UU), Jasmina Lazendic Galloway (UMCU), Annet van Royen-Kerkhof (UMCU), and...
Publications
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The effects of comprehensive competence‐based training on competence development and performance improvement of smallholder farmers: An Ethiopian case study
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Students’ Argumentation Performance in Online Learning Environments: Bridging Culture and Gender
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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
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Can learning to move foster sustainable development? A systematic literature review examining the potential of sport and physical activity in the context of environmental and sustainability education