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Primary School Teachers' Practices of Collaborating with Parents on Upbringing
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Stroetinga, Mirjam; Leeman, Yvonne; Veugelers, Wiel – School Community Journal, 2021
This study addresses teachers' practices of collaborating with parents on upbringing. It was inspired by the understanding that teachers contribute to upbringing in their day-to-day interaction with students and by the renewed interest in the upbringing-related goals of education in Western societies. The study aimed to learn more about the topic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries
Teachers' Implicit Moral Values in Their Narratives about Teaching Practice
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de Keijzer, Helma; Jacobs, Gaby; van Swet, Jacqueline; Veugelers, Wiel – Education and Society, 2021
This article focuses on the moral values that teachers consider important for their teaching practice. First, we investigated the tensions experienced and questions raised by teacher's experience of the moral matters that arise in their profession. These moral tensions and questions arise in three different areas of interactions with pupil(s): (1)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Special Education, Beliefs
Guiding Classroom Discussions for Democratic Citizenship Education
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Schuitema, Jaap; Radstake, Hester; van de Pol, Janneke; Veugelers, Wiel – Educational Studies, 2018
Classroom discussion is frequently proposes as an essential part of democratic citizenship education. Literature, however, pays little attention to what kind of discussion is most effective and how teachers can facilitate a discussion. This study aims to contribute to the development of a framework for analysing the characteristics of classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Democracy, Citizenship Education
Teachers' Views on Citizenship Education in Secondary Education in The Netherlands
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Leenders, Helene; Veugelers, Wiel; De Kat, Ewoud – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
In 2005 the Dutch Minister of Education proposed making it compulsory for all schools in The Netherlands to stimulate active citizenship and social integration. Teachers must give these educational goals a tangible form in their practice. What are the teachers' views on citizenship education? Concepts of citizenship education and the teacher's…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Influences, Required Courses, Teacher Attitudes
Moral Task of the Teaching According to Students, Parents and Teachers.
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Veugelers, Wiel; de Kat, Ewoud – Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 2003
Surveyed teachers (n=86), parents (n=180), and students (n=571) in the Netherlands about what they considered to be the moral task of the teacher and how they viewed two dominant concepts: transfer of values and value communication. Stimulating communication about values was seen as most important by parents, teachers, and students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Teachers, Value Stimulation, and Critical Thinking.
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Veugelers, Wiel – 1995
Two studies have explored how teachers in the Netherlands think about value stimulation and how teachers combine stimulating the development of specific values with teaching skills that enable students to adopt critical thinking or to analyze various opinions. The results of an investigation into the importance attached by teachers to stimulating…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries