Centre of Expertise Global and Inclusive Learning
Lifelong learning brings lifelong happinessCreating and ensuring equal opportunities for students and professionals. At the Centre of Expertise for Global and Inclusive Learning we research what processes would help to achieve this. We’re also looking into the best ways to actively promote inclusive education and an inclusive society. We support each learning individual in their talent development to enable them to become responsible professionals and critical citizens.
We study, work and live in a complex and global society in which not everyone is given the same opportunities. A society that is always changing through for example technological developments, and where many wicked issues are at play, such as climate adaptation, migration and integration. Education has to be responsive yet frequently lags behind. That must change. The Hague University of Applied Sciences functions as an incubator, thinktank and lab where learning and development play a role. Using practice-oriented research, debates, dialogue and out-of-the-box thinking, the Centre of Expertise for Global and Inclusive Learning promotes learning processes and exposes hidden assumptions, attitudes and behaviour.
The centre strives for sustainable innovation within education and beyond by focusing on topics such as global citizenship, talent development, inclusive education, internationalisation at home and practical wisdom within the professional field. Everything is centred around professional and personal development: to last a lifetime.
Projects
Men at Work
“We have difficulty bringing in young men and keeping them in the department of Social Work and Education.” This had been a longstanding issue for multiple years and the lectorate was asked to contribute to thinking about a solution. Instead of a top-down approach, the lectorate opted to work from below and include a networking approach. It started with the question who are the experts on this subject that need to be consulted? Of course those were the students themselves. From there the staff – teaching as well as support staff, alumni and the work field needed to be included.
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Team
Wâtte Zijlstra
Programme Director
Aminata Cairo, PhD
Professor Inclusive Education
Olivier Bello
Quartermaster
Laurence Guérin
Professor Global Citizenship
dr. Jos Beelen
Professor Global Learning
Ellen Sjoer
Professor Sustainable Talent Development
Bert van den Bergh
Lecturer-researcher Philosophy and Professional Practice
Elke Müller
Senior researcher Philosophy and Professional Practice
Jolanda van der Toorn
Management Assistant
Programme Director
Wâtte Zijlstra
Professor Inclusive Education
Aminata Cairo, PhD
Aminata Cairo was born and raised in the Netherlands but pursued her entire academic career in the United States. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in physical education and psychology, a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in medical anthropology. She has dedicated her academic work to community engagement and giving voice to overlooked, silenced, or otherwise marginalized populations, while including students in that process. She worked as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Upon return to the Netherlands she has worked in diversity and inclusion policy at Leiden University.
+31 (0)70 - 445 76 01a.cairo@hhs.nl
Quartermaster
Olivier Bello
Professor Global Citizenship
Laurence Guérin
Nevenfuncties
- Practor Burgerschap bij ROC van Twente
- Bestuurslid bij het Rathenau Instituut
Contact:
l.j.f.guerin@hhs.nl
Professor Global Learning
dr. Jos Beelen
Jos Beelen has a bachelor’s in history and a master’s in Classical Archaeology from the University of Amsterdam. During his master’s he spent a year doing archaeological fieldwork in Turkey. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. His thesis focused on the obstacles and enablers to internationalising learning outcomes by academics. Jos worked as a lecturer at Inholland University of Applied Sciences and as international officer, policy advisor and researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Jos is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Global Learning at Coventry University.
j.m.h.j.beelen@hhs.nlProfessor Sustainable Talent Development
Ellen Sjoer
After receiving her PhD from Leiden University, Ellen began working in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology. She has been a project leader for various research projects about e-learning and information management in higher education and at companies (including Shell). She is also involved in EU projects like Learn RDM in the SME. The first research group she headed at The Hague University of Applied Sciences was the one known as Knowledge Infrastructure for Science and Technology. Currently, Ellen heads the Sustainable Talent Development Research Group and is also employed at the Delft University of Technology as a project leader for ‘Collaborative PhD projects’, which focus on collaborations between universities and the business community. She also participates in various networks such as the Stichting HRM Lectorennetwerk Nederland and the board of the IACEE (International Association for Continuing Engineering Education).
e.sjoer@hhs.nlLecturer-researcher Philosophy and Professional Practice
Bert van den Bergh
Senior researcher Philosophy and Professional Practice
Elke Müller
Contact:
e.i.muller@hhs.nlManagement Assistant
Jolanda van der Toorn
