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
Student voice
Internationalisation at Home activities in different academic disciplines
PowerHouse gives educationally vulnerable students self-confidence
How can we help long-term students (students exceeding the specified course duration) rediscover their self-esteem? The umpteenth resit of an exam and an ever increasing study backlog have a devastating effect on a student's self-confidence. In collaboration with the Inclusive Education research group, we have initiated the PowerHouse project to develop active learning communities in which educationally vulnerable students learn to overcome their limitations.
iKUDU: developing the concept of Internationlisation of the Curriculum through COIL virtual Exchange projects between South African and European Higher Education Institutes
The iKUDU project is an EU-funded capacity building project focused on setting up a community of practice on COIL and the role that this can play in the internationalisation of the curriculum. It involves 10 Higher Education Institutions, five in South Africa and five in Europe, including THUAS. The project consists of two main teams.
Men at Work
‘We are having trouble recruiting young men and keeping them in the Social Work and Education degree programme.’ This has been an ongoing issue for several years and the research group was asked to help think of a solution. Instead of a top-down approach, the research group wanted to work bottom-up in a network-oriented manner and wondered who the initial experts would be to help think about the solution. Of course, these were the students themselves. Naturally, also the staff members — in education as well as other staff members, alumni and the professional field.
#Multinclude
Student Branch project: Hang in there
The Hang In There Project is an initiative organised by the Student Branch of the Inclusive Education research group and is aimed at supporting students in the adventure of their first year at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Here students share their experiences and how they have overcome obstacles. We also ask students to share their own experiences. Students participating in this project will receive supportive messages from time to time and a reminder that they are not alone. We support our students in their chosen adventure at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Hang In There!Read more about this project >
Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sport
The Inclusive Education research group has examined how the concept of world citizenship is promoted in their curriculum and how students experience this.
Global Citizenship Certificate
The research group Inclusive Education has contributed to the development of the Global Citizenship Certificate in collaboration with the Global Citizenship and International Learning research groups.
Team
Wâtte Zijlstra
Programme Director
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
Quartermaster
Olivier Bello
Professor Global Citizenship
Laurence Guérin
Laurence Guérin gained her doctoral degree in citizenship education and the translation of a vision of citizenship into educational principles and learning resources. She is the project leader of Bèta Burgerschap (Citizenship science, a project of TechYourFuture) in which a new form of citizenship education has been developed based on her doctoral thesis. She is also a practical researcher for Citizenship at the ROC Twente, where she leads the Citizenship workshop (an NRO project). Her research group at The Hague University of Applied Sciences will focus on the further development of Global Citizenship, in particular its significance in vocational education. Her starting point is Global Citizenship as a controversial subject: different visions of global citizenship lead to different implementations in the curriculum, in the teaching methods and in the organisation.
Additional positions
- Practical researcher on Citizenship at ROC Twente
- Board member of the Rathenau Institute
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
a.j.vandenbergh@hhs.nl
Senior researcher Philosophy and Professional Practice
Elke Müller
Management Assistant
Jolanda van der Toorn
