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Wageningen Graduate School for the Social Sciences has published an Open Call for excellent Master students who want to pursue a PhD in Social Sciences. Interested? Check the ECS website for current research and project descriptions at www.ecs.wur.nl; Contact us via martin.mulder@wur.nl
Continue reading Open call for 5 PhD positions in the Wageningen Graduate School of Social Sciences
Piety Runhaar and colleagues Renate Wesselink of ECS of Wageningen University, together with Rob Poell (University of Tilburg), Marianne van Woerkom (University of Tilburg) and Audrey Janssen-Seezink (Fontys) got a grant awarded in the round Integrated research projects 2012-2013 of the Programme Council for Educational Research of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The title of the project is ‘Team learning in the context of educational innovations’. The grant of NWO implies that ECS will get two more PhD students and that the University of Tilburg and Fontys will also get one each. Fantastic. Congratulations to the team!
Today I had a good meeting with the Journal of Agricultural Education Online (JAE) Editor Barry Croom at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The JAE publishes research about agricultural education in hte high school, higher agricultural education and agricultural extension (adult education). We discussed the association that publishes the JAE, the American Association of Agricultural Education (AAAE). We agreed that the JAE and the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension are going to work together.
Continue reading Meeting with Journ of Agric Educ Online Editor Barry Croom
How to educate in a changing world? Towards competence-based tertiary agricultural education
Authors: Arjen Wals, Martin Mulder and Natalia Eernstmann, Education & Competence Studies, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Continue reading Just published: How to educate in a changing world?
Last week ECS received the Midterm Research Review Report of the International Advisory Board of the Wageningen Graduate School of Social Sciences. Staff of ECS was very pleased to read:
We were expecting a very good review result since the global Citation Impact and the global Relative Impact of ECS publications fall in the top 2.5% of the population of competing groups in the social sciences worldwide. Nevertheless, it is rewarding to receive a positive Research Review Report like this.
On February 4 ECS staff convened to speak about education and research matters.
Continue reading Impressions of ECS education and research meeting 04 February 2013
The course on Competence-Based Curriculum Development in Nuffic project 126 in Kenya, which took place on January 30 and 31, 2013, was successfully implemented. Representatives of KARI, FPEAK, JKUAT and Africa React actively participated in the two-day programme. Trainers were Renate Wesselink, Hansje Eppink and myself. In total 10 participants received a certificate of successful completion. See pictures for an impression. Interested in a course on Competence-Based Curriculum Development? Constact us.
Continue reading Course on Competence-Based Curriculum Development in Kenya successfully implemented
Europea Netherlands exists 20 years. To celebrate that an international conference will be organized in Wageningen on April 17, 2013. Europea is the European Association of Agricultural Educators and is chaired by Mr Ton Stok. Secretay is Mrs Evelien Kist. Further information can be obtained from A. Stok, (a.stok@wellant.nl). The theme of the conference is: International focus on the region. Topics will be regional development in Europe, alignment of green education and top sectors and the position of the Netherlands in Europe.
On January 11, 2013, Omid Noroozi successfully defended his dissertation ‘Fostering Argumentation-Based Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education’. The promotion committee decided to grant Omid the distinction ‘Cum Laude’, which is very special, because only 3% of all PhD candidates of Wageningen University get this disctinction. Congratulations Omid.
In an earlier post I reported about my visit to the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada in April 2012. It told that the premises is now being used by first nations (‘Indians’ as they were called in the Western ‘culture’) for various purposes.