Global learning
This research group aims to contribute to enabling all students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences to acquire global knowledge and skills. This global dimension is essential for all students and is therefore considered an integral component of all programmes at THUAS.
The research group Global Learning was launched on 1 January 2018. The research group focuses on the global professional and personal skills that all our students learn through their home curricula. Lecturers are the key actors that enable global learning by students.
This requires us to critically examine our own educational practice and to develop the skills of our lecturers. The research group contributes insights that help lecturers to imagine internationalisation for their context, and to enhance the skills that enable them to assume their crucial role. The research group therefore collaborates with trainers and practitioners in the learning community ‘internationalisation’ at THUAS.
The research group itself aims to operate globally: collaboration with research centres on international education, within Europe and beyond, are a key focus of the research group.
Research group
Marloes Ambagts- van Rooijen
Paul G. Nixon
Marloes Ambagts- van Rooijen
Marloes Ambagts- van Rooijen works as a lecturer, teacher trainer and researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Besides teaching business communication at the International Business programme, she works for the Hague Centre for Teaching. In this role, she delivers teaching& learning and curriculum design & development modules within the English-taught BDB. Next to that, she develops and provides staff training for lecturers teaching in the international classroom, such as the Training for International Learning and Teaching, a Content and Language Integrated Learning training and a workshop in activating pedagogy. Within the lectorate of Global Learning, Marloes is looking into key lecturer competences for shaping effective international classrooms as an educational researcher. She intends to start her PhD research into this topic in 2019. Marloes has been working in international education in various roles throughout the educational landscape since 2006.
m.v.vanrooijen@hhs.nlPaul G. Nixon
Paul G. Nixon is a Principal Lecturer in Political Science and Europe Platform Co-ordinator. He has recently been appointed as Visiting Professor in the Department of Communication, IUSVE, Venice, Italy. His research is on the value of international staff exchanges. Often exchanges such as those undertaken under programmes such as ERASMUS+ are seen as only producing positive outcomes. The research will attempt to analyze the added value to both the individual undertaking the exchange, as well as to the organizations involved (both the host and the sending institutions). Nixon identifies goal setting and attainment, levels of pre departure training (if any), as well as attitudinal changes and the effects that these have upon the individuals teaching style and methods upon their return. In order to tie in the research and the KK with other THUAS initiatives, the same process will be investigated in one or more of the Strategic Partner Institutions to be used as a comparison, where practical, thus examining potential cultural differences.
p.g.nixon@hhs.nlAbout the professor
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.
+31 (0) - 6 51 26 28 53j.m.h.j.beelen@hhs.nl
Publications
Book
Leading internationalisation in higher education: People and policies
Chapter
Internationalising learning outcomes at The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Chapter
The missing link in internationalisation
Blog
International officers and internationalisation at home
Book
Leading internationalisation in higher education: People and policies
On 13 June 2018, Susana Menéndez said farewell as a member of the Executive Board of The Hague University of Applied Sciences. To mark that occasion, a symposium was held on leadership in the internationalisation of higher education, of which Susana has been a champion over the past ten years.
The publication that accompanies the symposium contains portraits of THUAS staff involved in internationalization in a wide range of roles but also of students. In addition, the publication includes five articles, highlighting aspects of leadership in internationalisation.
Beelen, J., & Walenkamp, J. (2018). Leading internationalisation in higher education: People and policies. Portraits and papers presented to Susana Menéndez on the occasion of her farewell as a member of the Executive Board of The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Download book (pdf)Chapter
Internationalising learning outcomes at The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Beelen, J. (2017). Internationalising learning outcomes at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. In J. Walenkamp & J. Beelen (Eds.), The world’s a stage (pp. 190-211). Delft/The Hague: Eburon/The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Chapter
The missing link in internationalisation
Beelen, J. (2017). The missing link in internationalization: Developing the skills of lecturers. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 12(4), 133-150.
Blog
International officers and internationalisation at home
Beelen, J. (2017, 22 August). International officers finding their role in internationalisation at home (EAIE Blog).
www.eaie.org/blog