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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry 21 November 2023How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She d...
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As many as a hundred ideas in minor Living Education Lab 14 November 2023Students presented the prototypes of educational tools they made in the first ten weeks of the new minor Living Education Lab. We asked two students ...
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Why is higher education not making more use of Open Educational Resources? 15 September 2023In higher education, Open Educational Resources (OER) are available for anyone to use, but they are not widely used. Marjon Baas, PhD student at ICLON...
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Increasing student participation in schools 01 September 2023Young people have the right to be involved in decision-making on matters that affect them, including their education. Ben Smit, researcher at ICLON, s...
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Part-time work in schools: ‘Students get to see how great teaching really is’ 17 July 2023Given the teacher shortage, secondary schools could use an extra pair of hands. Alfrink College in Zoetermeer is glad to have students from the univer...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Leiden researchers nominated for Klokhuis Science Prize 14 March 2023Socialising with other people is an important part of feeling good. What do children need from their surroundings to do this? Adults usually determine...
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How do teachers learn in a work placement programme? 13 February 2023Na Zhou (PhD at ICLON) researched how vocational teachers’ learning takes place in a work placement programme and how their learning supports their te...
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Five years of ‘Meet the Professor’: What’s it like to give a lesson at a primary school? 09 February 2023For the fifth year in succession, on the foundation day of the university, a number of Leiden professors taught a lesson at primary schools as part of...
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Implementing democratic education in Vietnamese schools 11 November 2022Tinh Le (PhD at ICLON) researched the impact of confucian culture and socialist beliefs on stakeholders' beliefs about democratic education and its im...
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Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons 09 September 2022A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the...
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A boost for open source laboratory education: 175,000 euro subsidy 15 June 2022A project to improve practicals in science courses has been awarded a 175,000 subsidy. Leiden physicist Paul Logman is one of the applicants, together...
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Subject-specific building blocks keep teaching interesting 10 June 2022Teachers have to find a balance between routine and renewal of their teaching repertoire. Eveline de Boer (PhD student at ICLON) investigated how dida...
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Journey through a maze: measuring learner-learner interaction 08 April 2022What and how are we measuring in research of learner-learner interaction? Irena Galikyan (PhD candidate at ICLON) defends her dissertation on this sub...