Bert Van Oers
Biographic Data
| ID | 104944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bert Van Oers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bert |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Oers |
| SIGNATURE | VAN OERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9371-9126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions
A fundamental question in early childhood mathematics concerns the relationship between young children’s own informal signs and the formal abstract symbolic language of mathematics. This study presents research investigating the genesis of mathematical semiosis from a Vygotskian cultural-historical (social-semiotic) perspective. In this study we look at the premature stages of dealing with quantity and their relationships. Our aim is to reveal th…
Musical play in the early years: The impact of a professional development programme on teacher efficacy of early years generalist teachers
Teacher Efficacy (TE) refers to teachers’ confidence in their ability to promote student’s learning. Research shows that generalist teachers’ TE for music education is generally low, with many teachers associating music education with innate musical talents – a problem exacerbated by music education programmes that focus on singing or playing instruments. Musical play is a form of music education in which young children more or less freely explor…
Developmental Education in Dutch primary schools: Review of research outcomes from a CHAT-based teaching approach
In this literature review, we evaluate the learning outcomes of Developmental Education (DE) in The Netherlands. This CHAT-based teaching approach has been around for over 30 years and is constantly being developed in collaboration between teachers, teacher educators and researchers. Although outcomes of this approach are evaluated in educational practice and several research studies, no systematic review study has been carried out to present an …
Design, implementation, and evaluation of dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education
The aims of the present study were to design and implement an intervention focused on dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education and to evaluate what it may contribute to children's oral communicative competence. Together with four teachers we developed and implemented an ecologically valid intervention that supports teachers to use several dialogic talk moves. We evaluated our intervention using a one-group pretest-posttest design. Dis…
Students on Facebook: From observers to collaborative agents
The aim of this paper is to explore how secondary school students’ agency evolves over time across offline and online spaces. We focus on five Facebook groups of teachers and students interacting online in various ways over a period of eighteen months. Combining a variety of innovative analytical techniques and procedures (descriptive statistics, network analysis and discursive analysis) we analyze students’ online posts and interactions in a cul…
Popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, or average: Do young children of different sociometric groups differ in their level of oral communicative competence
Children’s sociometric status refers to their position within the peer group and plays a major role in their future social development. It is therefore important to investigate factors that are related to it. To date, little attention has been paid to the potential role of oral communicative competence. The present study investigated sociometric group differences in the level of oral communicative competence in a sample of N = 570 children in ear…
Reading for meaning: The effects of Developmental Education on motivation and achievement in reading informative texts in primary school
Content-oriented reading interventions that focus on the integration of motivational enhancement and strategy instruction have been found to have positive effects. Developmental education (DE) in the Netherlands is an innovative content-oriented approach in which reading is an integral part of an inquiry-oriented curriculum. Reading for meaning is a central pursuit, and strategy instruction is functionally integrated. This study differs from prev…
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
Implementing a play-based curriculum: Fostering teacher agency in primary school
The Role of the Teacher in Promoting Dialogue and Polylogue During Inquiry Activities in Primary Education
In inquiry, dialogue between persons present in the classroom can be enriched with polylogue with knowledgeable others outside of the classroom. This study aimed to find out what role dialogue and polylogue play in encouraging philosophical inquiry in three other forms of inquiry in primary education: inquiry as experimental research, inquiry by consulting sources, and inquiry of practices. More specifically, the authors wanted to know how teache…
Developmental Education: Reflections on a Chat-Research Program in the Netherlands
Meaningful Cultural Learning by Imitative Participation: The Case of Abstract Thinking in Primary School
The article describes a theory-driven approach to meaningful learning in primary schools, based on the Vygotskian cultural-historical theory of human development and learning. This approach is elaborated into an educational concept called ‘developmental education’ that is implemented in the Netherlands in many primary schools. In this approach, meaningful learning is conceived of as a way of learning through participation in cultural practices em…
Towards a knowledge‐rich learning environment in preparatory secondary education
In this case study a novel educational programme for students in preparatory vocational education was studied. The research questions were: (1) Which teaching/learning processes occur in a simulated workplace using the concept of a knowledge‐rich workplace? (2) What is the role of models and modelling in the teaching/learning processes? The curriculum project consisted of design and construction tasks. The students were collaboratively involved i…
New Advances in the Study of Memory
Some Thoughts About Togetherness: An introduction Re ́flexions sur «Togetherness» Algunos Pensamientos Sobre el "Sentimiento de Unio ́n"
The Fallacy of Decontextualization
In this article, I argue against views of the development of abstract thinking that employ the notion of decontextualization. Starting from an assumption that conceives of context as constitutive of meaning, it becomes clear that the notion of "decontextualization" is a poor concept that provides little explanation for the developmental process toward meaningful abstract thinking. I propose a conceptualization of the notion of context from an act…
The Fallacy of Decontextualization
In this article, I argue against views of the development of abstract thinking that employ the notion of decontextualization. Starting from an assumption that conceives of context as constitutive of meaning, it becomes clear that the notion of "decontextualization" is a poor concept that provides little explanation for the developmental process toward meaningful abstract thinking. I propose a conceptualization of the notion of context from an act…
Popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, or average: Do young children of different sociometric groups differ in their level of oral communicative competence
Children’s sociometric status refers to their position within the peer group and plays a major role in their future social development. It is therefore important to investigate factors that are related to it. To date, little attention has been paid to the potential role of oral communicative competence. The present study investigated sociometric group differences in the level of oral communicative competence in a sample of N = 570 children in ear…
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
Reading for meaning: The effects of Developmental Education on motivation and achievement in reading informative texts in primary school
Content-oriented reading interventions that focus on the integration of motivational enhancement and strategy instruction have been found to have positive effects. Developmental education (DE) in the Netherlands is an innovative content-oriented approach in which reading is an integral part of an inquiry-oriented curriculum. Reading for meaning is a central pursuit, and strategy instruction is functionally integrated. This study differs from prev…
The Fallacy of Decontextualization
In this article, I argue against views of the development of abstract thinking that employ the notion of decontextualization. Starting from an assumption that conceives of context as constitutive of meaning, it becomes clear that the notion of "decontextualization" is a poor concept that provides little explanation for the developmental process toward meaningful abstract thinking. I propose a conceptualization of the notion of context from an act…
Some Thoughts About Togetherness: An introduction Re ́flexions sur «Togetherness» Algunos Pensamientos Sobre el "Sentimiento de Unio ́n"
New Advances in the Study of Memory
Towards a knowledge‐rich learning environment in preparatory secondary education
In this case study a novel educational programme for students in preparatory vocational education was studied. The research questions were: (1) Which teaching/learning processes occur in a simulated workplace using the concept of a knowledge‐rich workplace? (2) What is the role of models and modelling in the teaching/learning processes? The curriculum project consisted of design and construction tasks. The students were collaboratively involved i…
Developmental Education: Reflections on a Chat-Research Program in the Netherlands
Meaningful Cultural Learning by Imitative Participation: The Case of Abstract Thinking in Primary School
The article describes a theory-driven approach to meaningful learning in primary schools, based on the Vygotskian cultural-historical theory of human development and learning. This approach is elaborated into an educational concept called ‘developmental education’ that is implemented in the Netherlands in many primary schools. In this approach, meaningful learning is conceived of as a way of learning through participation in cultural practices em…
Implementing a play-based curriculum: Fostering teacher agency in primary school
The Role of the Teacher in Promoting Dialogue and Polylogue During Inquiry Activities in Primary Education
In inquiry, dialogue between persons present in the classroom can be enriched with polylogue with knowledgeable others outside of the classroom. This study aimed to find out what role dialogue and polylogue play in encouraging philosophical inquiry in three other forms of inquiry in primary education: inquiry as experimental research, inquiry by consulting sources, and inquiry of practices. More specifically, the authors wanted to know how teache…
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
Reading for meaning: The effects of Developmental Education on motivation and achievement in reading informative texts in primary school
Content-oriented reading interventions that focus on the integration of motivational enhancement and strategy instruction have been found to have positive effects. Developmental education (DE) in the Netherlands is an innovative content-oriented approach in which reading is an integral part of an inquiry-oriented curriculum. Reading for meaning is a central pursuit, and strategy instruction is functionally integrated. This study differs from prev…
Popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, or average: Do young children of different sociometric groups differ in their level of oral communicative competence
Children’s sociometric status refers to their position within the peer group and plays a major role in their future social development. It is therefore important to investigate factors that are related to it. To date, little attention has been paid to the potential role of oral communicative competence. The present study investigated sociometric group differences in the level of oral communicative competence in a sample of N = 570 children in ear…
Students on Facebook: From observers to collaborative agents
The aim of this paper is to explore how secondary school students’ agency evolves over time across offline and online spaces. We focus on five Facebook groups of teachers and students interacting online in various ways over a period of eighteen months. Combining a variety of innovative analytical techniques and procedures (descriptive statistics, network analysis and discursive analysis) we analyze students’ online posts and interactions in a cul…
Design, implementation, and evaluation of dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education
The aims of the present study were to design and implement an intervention focused on dialogic classroom talk in early childhood education and to evaluate what it may contribute to children's oral communicative competence. Together with four teachers we developed and implemented an ecologically valid intervention that supports teachers to use several dialogic talk moves. We evaluated our intervention using a one-group pretest-posttest design. Dis…
Developmental Education in Dutch primary schools: Review of research outcomes from a CHAT-based teaching approach
In this literature review, we evaluate the learning outcomes of Developmental Education (DE) in The Netherlands. This CHAT-based teaching approach has been around for over 30 years and is constantly being developed in collaboration between teachers, teacher educators and researchers. Although outcomes of this approach are evaluated in educational practice and several research studies, no systematic review study has been carried out to present an …
Musical play in the early years: The impact of a professional development programme on teacher efficacy of early years generalist teachers
Teacher Efficacy (TE) refers to teachers’ confidence in their ability to promote student’s learning. Research shows that generalist teachers’ TE for music education is generally low, with many teachers associating music education with innate musical talents – a problem exacerbated by music education programmes that focus on singing or playing instruments. Musical play is a form of music education in which young children more or less freely explor…
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions
A fundamental question in early childhood mathematics concerns the relationship between young children’s own informal signs and the formal abstract symbolic language of mathematics. This study presents research investigating the genesis of mathematical semiosis from a Vygotskian cultural-historical (social-semiotic) perspective. In this study we look at the premature stages of dealing with quantity and their relationships. Our aim is to reveal th…
Psychology (15 works) · Mathematics education (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (5 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (5 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works)