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Evaluating knowledge and self-rated competence of educational and speech-language professionals on language development and disorders
No full textPurpose: Oral language abilities are essential for children\u27s development and participation. Educational and healthcare professionals should know about language development and feel competent in delivering support to children with language problems or disorders. We evaluated the knowledge base, the self-rated competence and the reasons for this experienced competence in different groups of Dutch professionals, to gain insight in the qualities and needs in the educational support chain.
Method: Respondents were 33 speech-language therapists (SLT), 57 ambulatory support professionals (ASP), 46 teachers and special educational needs coordinators (SENCo) at mainstream education and 23 teachers and SENCos at special education. In an online questionnaire, these professionals judged 24 statements concerning oral language and language disorders as being true/false to reflect the knowledge base. They also rated their competence in supporting children with language difficulties on a scale of 1-10 and were asked to indicate why they were able to provide this support, as well as when they would be better able to support these children.
Results: There were no differences between the groups on the knowledge base task. The groups did differ on the self-rated competence (mainstream < special education and ASP < SLT). Scores on the knowledge base task and self-rated competence were not correlated. As facilitators to their self-rated competence, respondents referred mostly to their own knowledge, experience and training, whereas most barriers concerned problems within the educational and health care system.
Conclusions: The findings point to the need for investing into the knowledge base and competence of the different groups of professionals, as well as removing external and collaboration-based barriers in the educational and healthcare context.Doel: Mondelinge taalvaardigheid is essentieel voor de (schoolse) ontwikkeling en participatie van kinderen. Om de juiste ondersteuning te kunnen bieden aan kinderen met taalproblemen of een taalontwikkelingsstoornis is het van belang dat onderwijs- en zorgprofessionals kennis hebben over taalontwikkeling en zich competent voelen in het bieden van ondersteuning. Om hier meer zicht op te krijgen hebben we de kennisbasis, zelfingeschatte competentie en de toelichting over deze ervaren competentie van verschillende groepen onderwijs-zorgprofessionals vergeleken.
Methode: In totaal vulden 33 logopedisten, 57 ambulant dienstverleners (AD), 46 leerkrachten en intern begeleiders (IB) uit het reguliere onderwijs en 23 leerkrachten en IB-ers in het speciaal cluster 2 onderwijs een online vragenlijst in. Om de kennisbasis te meten gaven zij voor 24 stellingen over taalontwikkeling en taalstoornissen aan of die waar of niet waar waren. Ze beoordeelden ook hun competentie in het ondersteunen van kinderen met taalproblemen op een schaal van 1-10. Tot slot werd hen gevraagd aan te geven waarom ze kinderen met taalproblemen konden ondersteunen en wat ze nodig zouden hebben om dat nog beter te kunnen doen.
Resultaten: Er waren geen groepsverschillen in de kennisbasis. De groepen verschilden wel op de zelfbeoordeelde competentie (regulier < speciaal onderwijs en AD < logopedisten). Er was geen correlatie tussen de kennisbasisscore en de zelfbeoordeelde competentie. Wat betreft positieve invloeden op de ervaren competentie noemden de deelnemers met name hun eigen kennis, ervaring en opleiding. Om betere ondersteuning te kunnen leveren werden met name systeemfactoren genoemd gerelateerd aan onderwijs en zorg.
Conclusies: Deze resultaten geven aan dat het belangrijk is om aandacht te besteden aan de kennisbasis en ervaren competentie van de verschillende groepen onderwijszorg-professionals, net als aan het verminderen van barrières in de onderwijszorgcontext
De gemeenschap en het individu. Kritische notities bij en lessen uit twee tegengestelde verbondsvisies
No full textWithin Reformed circles in the Netherlands the doctrine of the covenant is much debated. Different views about the number of covenants, the (un)conditional nature of the covenant, and who belong to the covenant of grace, have been fixed for decades. The disputants no longer attempt to influence, never mind convince each other. This article examines recent publications from opposite sides (Verbond en doop from the GGN and Woord houden from the GKN) and seeks to bring the different covenant views into conversation with each other, by critically discussing these views and testing them for their inner consistency. This essay seeks to give impetus to renewed reflection on Reformed covenant doctrine by articulating the differences and the elements of truth in both publications
Hermeneutiek in de preekvoorbereiding
No full textThis article examines the relationship between preaching and from the perspective of sermon preparation. It proposes three layers of hermeneutical processes: ‘biblical hermeneutics’, ‘theological hermeneutics’, and ‘hermeneutics as resonance’. On a deeper level, resonance, an alternative to what Reformed homiletics called ‘application’, can process the insights of modernity and postmodernity. Dealing with the scriptural text during sermon preparation, resonance enables the preacher to focus upon a lived spirituality
Klimaat, biodiversiteit en de christelijke traditie
No full textIn this article, I will show how the two major environmental issues of our time, man-made climate change and biodiversity decline, are connected to Christian thought about creation and history. Views on the character of time and related notions of progress and growth are relevant to the first issue; views on changes in creation as a result of the fall to the second. Finally, I will argue that the pursuit of sustainability requires a supporting narrative. Christianity, despite its fraught past, has important ingredients for such a narrative
Participatie als nederige ontologie
No full textProtestant/Reformed theology usually does not hold participation, the Platonic-Christian metaphysical framework that undergirds a doctrine of theosis, in high regard. This article defends participation, finds it attractive and, in fact, an unavoidable traditional Christian account of the relationship between God and the world, not strange to the Reformed tradition. This doctrine moves individual soteriological concerns into the wider orbit of God’s being, the nature of creation, and humanity. The article argues that although participation is rooted in Platonism as a spiritual philosophy, it was fundamentally altered by the Jewish-Christian tradition. It explores the different ways in which the Christian tradition tried to do justice to the difference between God and creation in a participatory sense. It continues to show how the Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck’s dogmatics adopts the participatory theological-metaphysical framework as a matter of received wisdom of the tradition. The article closes with recognizing three characteristics of a participatory ontology that suggest it is sound Christian theology
Kletskoppen, mergpijpen en een snufje nootmuskaat. De geheime rol van tafelen in vroegmoderne Nederlandse diplomatie
No full textIn the late sixteenth to eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, food and drink played an important role during diplomatic missions and city entries of stadtholders and allied rulers. Sharing a meal or raising one’s glass fostered social cohesion – at least in theory. This applied not only to rulers and their diplomatic corps, but also to prominent citizens, merchants, and sometimes even the ‘common’ man and woman who depended on the charity of poor relief institutions. Moreover, festive meals often served as excellent covers for forging political alliances and exchanging secret diplomatic information. This contribution aims to show that food and drink, or the lack thereof, could have a significant or even lasting impact on social and diplomatic relations. The article focuses on four cities that were on the route of almost every ceremonial entrance in the Republic, namely Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Gouda, and Vlissingen, as well as a special mission of a Dutch envoy in France, one of the Republic’s most important diplomatic relations in the early modern period