Loek Nieuwenhuis

• prof. dr.
• Professor at HAN University of Applied Sciences

Both supervisors and students play an active role in facilitating workplace learning in healthcare placements. In workplace learning, affordances, referring to the opportunities for learning in the workplace, and agency, referring to the willingness and ability to engage with affordances, are central concepts. To fully utilize the potential of work...

Professional work in healthcare is increasingly disruptive, requiring professionals to be flexible and adaptable. Research on adaptive expertise and adaptive performance in healthcare has grown, and operationalisation and measurement of these concepts are crucial to meet professionals’ evolving needs. This study provides an overview of measurement...

This study investigates the pivotal role of self-regulated learning in higher education and explores to what extent teachers’ conceptions of formative assessment influence the development of students’ self-regulated learning skills. Despite the recognised significance of self-regulated learning, many students in higher education lack effective self...

Purpose: Supervisors are responsible to train students in healthcare placements. Although there is knowledge about workplace learning and supervision in general, little is known about supervisors’ pedagogic strategies in specific healthcare placements. In this study, we identify how supervisors’ reasoning and interrelated actions manifest in physio...

Most courses in higher education finish with one or more assessments which commonly all have to be passed. In these courses, student learning is commonly measured using conventional classroom tests, therefore test preparation is a common task for students. In higher education, compared with students’ prior education, they are faced with a more comp...

Het beroepsonderwijs, zowel middelbaar als hoger, staat voor de taak om jongeren uit te rusten met beroepsvaardigheden, waarmee zij de onzekerheden van de toekomstige arbeidsmarkt te lijf kunnen. In dit artikel betogen wij, dat het klassieke lineaire model voor curriculumontwikkeling niet meer voldoet, om tenminste drie redenen: door de functionele...

Professionals will increasingly be confronted with new insights and changes. This raises questions as to what kind of expertise professionals need, and how development of this expertise can be influenced within the contexts of both education and work. The terms adaptive expertise and adaptive performance are well-known concepts in the domains of ed...

Students’ health profession education includes learning at the workplace through placements. For students, participating in daily work activities in interaction with supervisors, co-workers and peers is a valuable practice to learn the expertise that is needed to become a health care professional. To contribute to the understanding of HPE-students’...

Due to fast and unpredictable developments, professional education is challenged with being responsive, which demands a rethinking of conventional curriculum development approaches. Yet, literature on curriculum development falls short in terms of recognising how to react rapidly and adequately to these new developments. This study focuses on curri...

Due to fast and unpredictable developments, professional education is challenged with being responsive, which demands a rethinking of conventional curriculum development approaches. Yet, literature on curriculum development falls short in terms of recognising how to react rapidly and adequately to these new developments. This study focuses on curri...

Pedagogic practices at workplaces are provided to support students’ vocational education. To contribute to the understanding of supporting workplace learning, the focus of this literature review is to operationalise how pedagogic practices play out in practice. An overview is provided of pedagogic practices applied at workplaces to support students...

Despite increasing scholarly interest in the phenomenon of quality culture, the existing literature is largely silent on or ambiguous concerning how to realise such a quality culture. In this paper, insights from the field of socio-technical systems design (STSD) are used to explore how to enhance a quality culture. STSD seems to be able to add to...

Poster gepresenteerd op de ORD 2021, Utrecht. Zuyd Hogeschool, OU, Heerlen.

Background A group of clinician-scientists and managers working within a Dutch academic network, experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists. They found no role clarity in literature, nor did they find tools or methods suitable for clinician-scientists. Clarifying role expectations and providin...

Background: Twelve clinician-scientists were employed in a Dutch academic network, which is a collaboration between fifteen nursing-homes and an academic medical research institute. The clinician-scientists were tasked with linking research and clinical practice by catalysing both care-informed research and evidence-informed implementation initiati...

Background: Twelve clinician-scientists were employed in a Dutch academic network, which is a collaboration between fifteen nursing-homes and an academic medical research institute. The clinician-scientists were tasked with linking research and clinical practice by catalysing both care-informed research and evidence-informed implementation initiati...

Paper presented. Zuyd Hogeschool, OU Heerlen.

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Vocational and professional educational institutes are educating students for a large variety of professions. The future of most professions is uncertain: technological and socio-economic developments will have a high impact on professional work in the near future (cf. Susskind & Susskind, 2015). In order to deliver responsive higher education, voc...

This chapter discusses the challenge of increasing the responsivity of vocational education. Responsivity is defined as the ability of vocational education and training (VET) to interpret socioeconomic and technological developments for curriculum design in terms of content and pedagogical approach. VET needs to equip young people with the knowledg...

To improve students’ transitions between successive educational levels, continuing learning pathways are being designed and implemented in many countries. This study was carried out to examine the effects of the Green Lycea (GL) as critical cases of continuing learning pathways in vocational education in The Netherlands. The GL were compared with a...

Background: This literature review investigates what research reports about the contribution that communities of practice (CoPs) can make in the continuing professional development (CPD) of qualified occupational therapists. Methods: Academic databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE and ERIC) were searched and articles were included based on pre-determined cr...

Workplace learning is considered an effective strategy for the development of vocation, career and professional identity. Dual training programs, in which learning at a vocational school and learning at work in a company are combined, are seen as strong carriers for skill formation processes. In this study we explore workplace learning in dual trai...

To deal with recent reforms and the accompanying complexity of work in secondary education, ongoing collaboration between teachers has become more important. A community is seen as a promising learning environment to support and embed collaboration into the culture of the school. However, community theory for the design of teacher communities seems...

Purpose The aim of this study is to explore whether and to what degree community development of teacher teams takes place and how community development comes about, that is, what community‐building efforts teacher teams undertake. Design/methodology/approach Using a multi method approach, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered from seven...

Purpose The first aim of this study is to explore to what extent communities of practice occur in the school workplace. The second aim is to explore the relation between communities of practice and diversity in composition of teacher teams. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative as well as qualitative data were gathered from seven teacher teams...

To meet the requirements of an increasingly innovative and competitive environment, workers need to continuously develop and maintain competence. Consequently, initial vocational education and training should prepare (future) workers by providing a basis for lifelong learning in developing both routine and flexible competence. The question is wheth...

There is conflicting empirical evidence regarding the learning potential of the workplace. Some studies conclude that workplaces should be seen as strong learning environments, whereas others show evidence of the ineffectiveness of the workplace as a learning environment. In this article, we argue that this disagreement might be caused by different...

Dit boek is een hommage aan prof. dr. Johan van de Sanden, hoogleraar onderwijskunde in Nederland, gespecialiseerd in de pedagogie van het beroepsonderwijs (vmbo). Het boek is opgebouwd uit zes delen. Ieder deel start met een uitgewerkte visie van de hoogleraar, gevolgd door een bondige reactie van een collega. Onderwerpen zijn onder meer een leerp...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to get a clear view on how can we judge groups in relation to the characteristics of a community of practice (CoP), and the presence of collective learning in these groups. Design/methodology/approach A review of literature on collective learning and CoPs led to the development of a conceptual model, which w...

Purpose This paper aims to generate both a theoretical and an empirical basis for a research model that serves in further research as an analytical tool for understanding the complex phenomenon of learning at different levels in a work organisation. The key concept in this model is the routine concept of Nelson and Winter. Design/methodology/appro...

In het beroepsonderwijs is er een groot ver-trouwen in de werkplek als leerplaats. Een beroep leer je pas in de praktijk en veel leer-lingen in het beroepsonderwijs raken pas geëngageerd voor leren in praktische toepas-singssituaties. Het is echter de vraag of dit vertrouwen in de werkplek als leerplaats te-recht is, zowel in absolute zin als in te...

In the Dutch Vocational Education and Training (VET) system, competence-based education is the leading paradigm for innovation, both at the system level and at the level of learning environments. This article provides an historical analysis of the development of competence-based education in various countries and explores the concept of competence...

Hoofdstuk Den Boer, Geerligs & Nieuwenhuis in E. de Bruijn (red). Dit katern bestaat uit vier hoofdstukken. Het eerste hoofdstuk is een inleidend hoofdstuk. De Bruijn laat zien dat ook in het overheidsbeleid sprake is van een voorzichtig verschuivende invalshoek van institutie naar deelnemer. Deze nieuwe aandacht heeft zijn weerslag op de onderwij...

In the Dutch Vocational Education and Training (VET) system, competence-based education is the leading paradigm for innovation, both at the system level and at the level of learning environments. This article provides an historical analysis of the development of competence-based education in various countries and explores the concept of competence...

Vanaf de tweede WO kende Nederland een zeer goed ontwikkeld voorlichtingsstelsel aan de agrarische sector, de OVO-driehoek. de laatste jarern is duidelijk geworden dat technologische ontwikkeleingen aan de ene kant en de vrag op de markt een grotere eigen ruimte voor besluitvorming door boeren creëren. zij moeten zich door het wegvallen van protect...

Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time. The promise of solutions to many problems at the individual, institutional, and national level evokes as much controversy as acclaim. This might be related to the different perspectives of actors and researchers involved in problem-solving in Vocational Educati...

In this paper critical reflective working behaviour will be operationalized. Second, the question will be raised which factors have impact on critical reflective working behaviour. The following dimensions of critical reflective working emerge: reflection, vision sharing, challenging group-think, asking for feedback, experimentation and awareness o...

Innovation is a complex process, based on interactive network learning and processes of trial and error on the shop floor. Small companies, such as in agriculture, are depending on external knowledge infrastructures for effective innovation. Within small companies, the entrepreneur has a pivotal role in the innovative process: the entrepreneur is t...

After a review of the literature, critical reflective work behavior (CRWB) was defined as: a set of connected, individual activities aimed at analyzing, optimizing, or innovating work practices on the individual, team, or organizational level. The combination of literature review and analysis of case studies led to the operationalization of CRWB in...

The criteria for the design of job oriented curricula formulated in this chapter are based on a combination of theories of qualification and instruction. Qualification theories emphasize the importance of preparing students for complex and dynamic work situations with social and strategic cognitive skills as the key elements. Recent developments in...

In this paper we present a theory based framework for studying organizational routine change. The type and level of interdependency in work teams, created by the interaction between work environment and individual, provides the basis for organizational routines and organizational routine change in the framework. Further, to map the outcomes of orga...

Nelen, A., Poortman, C., De Grip, A., Nieuwenhuis, L., & Kirschner, P. A. (2010). Het rendement van combinaties van leren en werken: Een review studie [Effects of combinations of learning and working: A review study]. Proceedings van de 37e Onderwijs Research Dagen 2010, Enschede, Nederland.

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