Research group Value-oriented Professionalisation
The aim of our research group is the development of value-oriented professionals, with an emphasis on both the individual and the context in which they act. We do this by practice-based research. The focus of value oriented professionalisation is the cultivation of self-awareness with individuals, teams and sometimes organisations, of what ‘good work’ means to them and how they act towards this.
Lines of research within the research group
In this line of research, we describe how normativity and subjective interpretations play a role in professional practice and in the professional development of teachers and other professionals. This is an important topic of discussion, because awareness and clarification of this issue is often not discussed during training or once one is involved in professional practice.
Projects
- Value-oriented professionalisation of commercial appraisers of real estate
- Understanding moral authorship of novice teachers in primary education
In this line of research, researchers reflect on the norms and values of professional conduct. What is our assessment of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ professional behaviour based on? And how might this be improved?
Projects
- Democratisation of critical thinking
- Learning and teaching in a complex world
In this line of research, we focus on the process of professionalisation and vocational training. We study how to challenge and supervise students and teachers in the best possible way. The main objective is for students and teachers to discover and express their own norms and values.
Projects
- Worldview education and value-oriented professionalisation
- Appropriate education with co-teaching - Study to the collective sense-making of co-teaching teams
- Internationalisation and the professional image of the teacher
Worldview education and normative professionalisation
We are using narrative-biographical research to describe the connection between a personal worldview and the normative professionalisation process.
Beyond a human-centered pedagogy
Research into ecopedagogy: education and parenting that starts of from a viewpoint in which humans are not considered to be the center of the world.
Publications
- Exploring practical knowledge Life-world studies of professionals in education and research
- Bildung-making as a key for inclusive education
- Critical policy discourse analysis
Education
The research group offers various guest lectures and contributes to education and curriculum development. Furthermore, each researcher integrates an NP-approach in their own education.
Various minor programmes are designed by the research group, such as:
- Philosophy, World religions, and Spirituality
- Global Citizenship
“There are more criteria involved in good education than just effectiveness”
Cok Bakker Professor of Value-oriented Professionalisation
Collaboration
This research group is part of a collaborative research group, in which the chair Religious and Worldview Education of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University forms the other part.
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