Research group Value-oriented Professionalisation
The aim of our research group is the development of value-oriented professionals, with an emphasis on both the individual and the context in which they act. We do this by practice-based research. The focus of value oriented professionalisation is the cultivation of self-awareness with individuals, teams and sometimes organisations, of what ‘good work’ means to them and how they act towards this.
Lines of research within the research group
With their research, the research group focusses on four conceptual domains and their interplay. Conceptual domains are: individual, context, teamwork and impact. For value oriented professionalisation to be ‘successful’, it needs to work with and in all these domains. Therefore, current, and new projects are broadly clustered in one or more of the domains. Insights from these projects will contribute to a metanarrative in which the central research question will be illustrated and answers for a reader’s own practice could be found.
Sub-question: How can education and professional practices, individually but also together, contribute to strengthening the professional identity of (future) professionals?
Sub-question: What is needed for teams in training and professional practices to recognise a collective identity and how can this benefit value -oriented professionalisation of all those involved?
Sub-question: What conditions are needed for the utilization and creation of moral formative space in order for resonance and transformation to be realised, and how can these conditions be developed?
Sub-question: What is the impact and impact of VoP in education and profession and how can these be mapped?
Worldview education and normative professionalisation
We are using narrative-biographical research to describe the connection between a personal worldview and the normative professionalisation process.
Beyond a human-centered pedagogy
Research into ecopedagogy: education and parenting that starts of from a viewpoint in which humans are not considered to be the center of the world.
Publications
- Exploring practical knowledge Life-world studies of professionals in education and research
- Bildung-making as a key for inclusive education
- Leaving the Crow’s Nest: How Creative Co‐Creation Transcends “Us‐Versus‐Them” Experiences of Dutch Refugee Students
Education
The research group offers various guest lectures and contributes to education and curriculum development. Furthermore, each researcher integrates an NP-approach in their own education.
Various minor programmes are designed by the research group, such as:
- Philosophy, World religions, and Spirituality
- Global Citizenship
“There are more criteria involved in good education than just effectiveness”
Cok Bakker Professor of Value-oriented Professionalisation
Collaboration
This research group is part of a collaborative research group, in which the chair Religious and Worldview Education of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University forms the other part.
