Wim Gijselaers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wim Gijselaers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wim |
| FAMILY NAME | Gijselaers |
| SIGNATURE | GIJSELAERS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4218-2944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Imposter to Original
This article describes how people in formal leadership roles shape and develop a leader identity through meaning‐making of experiences across time and situations. Drawing on qualitative data from in‐depth life narrative interviews with 22 organizational leaders, enriched through photo and object elicitation techniques as well as timeline mapping, we offer an understanding of how meanings made and meaning‐making modes impact leader identity develo…
Framing Collective Moral Responsibility for Climate Change
Responding to climate change and avoiding irreversible climate tipping points requires radical and drastic action by 2030. This urgency raises serious questions for energy companies, one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), in terms of how they frame, and reframe, their response to climate change. Despite the majority of energy companies releasing ambitious statements declaring net zero carbon ambitions, this ‘talk’ has not…
Being Well in Academia
Academic faculty face high rates of indicators of low well-being, such as burnout, stress, and even mental illness, making monitoring employee well-being imperative. However, well-being is a complex construct with various conceptualizations and associated measures. This lack of consensus creates difficulties in interpreting well-being findings, with consequences for practice. We have conducted a systematic review by qualitatively analyzing 161 ar…
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education
Higher education plays a pivotal role in preparing students for the dynamic and complex labour market.Helping students develop employability competences supports them in obtaining the necessary expertise and skills to facilitate their transition to the labour market and to address the requirements of their new jobs.Employability competences are considered to contribute to students' wellbeing and economic prosperity.Colleges and universities offer…
Organizations, Learning, and Sustainability
This paper explores the role of learning in organizational responses to sustainability. Finding meaningful solutions to sustainability challenges requires companies and other actors to broaden their thinking, go beyond organizational boundaries and engage more with their stakeholders. However, broadening organizational perspective and collaborating with diverse stakeholders involves inherent political and process-related tensions. Learning has be…
When theory joins practice
INTRODUCTION: Inclusive educational leaders promote teacher team functioning. To support leader inclusiveness, we designed and implemented a faculty development programme focusing on leader identity formation. We investigated (1) how participants' leader identity developed throughout the programme and (2) how the design principles contributed to this process, according to participants. METHODS: A design-based research approach was followed. Parti…
Are You “Nudgeable”? Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Healthy Eating Nudges in a Cafeteria Setting
Research has identified nudging as a promising and effective tool to improve healthy eating behavior in a cafeteria setting. However, it remains unclear who is and who is not "nudgeable" (susceptible to nudges). An important influencing factor at the individual level is nudge acceptance. While some progress has been made in determining influences on the acceptance of healthy eating nudges, research on how personal characteristics (such as the per…
Vertical or shared? When leadership supports team learning for educational change
University teacher teams can work toward educational change through the process of team learning behavior, which involves sharing and discussing practices to create new knowledge. However, teachers do not routinely engage in learning behavior when working in such teams and it is unclear how leadership support can overcome this problem. Therefore, this study examines when team leadership behavior supports teacher teams in engaging in learning beha…
Cafeteria Online
Many people do not consume as much healthy food as recommended. Nudging has been identified as a promising intervention strategy to increase the consumption of healthy food. The present study analyzed the effects of three body shape nudges (thin, thick, or Giacometti artwork) on food ordering and assessed the mediating role of being aware of the nudge. Students (686) and employees (218) of a German university participated in an online experimenta…
When I say … team learning
Meeuwissen et al. present 'team learning' as a process that helps explain how successful teams work, clarifying how behavioral dimensions of team learning lead to new, shared understandings
The development and validation of an instrument to measure conditions for social engagement of students in higher education
The present article analyzes social engagement as an outcome of higher education. It can be conceived as an attitude that by definition only manifests itself over time, and should therefore not be assessed or measured during the years of study or at graduation. The argument is being made that social engagement should be understood in terms of conditions for social engagement. Based on a conceptual framework three such conditions are being propose…
The Pivotal Role of Effort Beliefs in Mediating Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Achievement Goals and Academic Motivations
Essential knowledge for academic performance
The structural relationship between students' epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between students’ epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning. The results showed that the epistemological beliefs dimension ‘learning effort/process’ was positively related to the constructivist conception of teaching and learning, and negatively related to the traditional conception of teaching and learning, indicating that students recognize the importance of sel…
The interplay of perceptions of the learning environment, personality and learning strategies
Previous research on students’ learning strategies has examined the relationships between either perceptions of the learning environment or personality and learning strategies. The focus of this study was on the joint relationships between the students’ perceptions of the learning environment, their personality, and the learning strategies they used. This study was conducted in an International Business Studies programme, with 522 students partic…
Social and Cognitive Factors Driving Teamwork in Collaborative Learning Environments
A team is more than a group of people in the same space, physical or virtual. In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to the social bases of cognition, taking into consideration how social processes in groups and teams affect performance. This article investigates when and how teams in collaborative learning environments engage in building and maintaining mutually shared cognition, leading to increased perceived performance. In doi…
Redesigning a learning and assessment environment
The Pivotal Role of Effort Beliefs in Mediating Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Achievement Goals and Academic Motivations
The development and validation of an instrument to measure conditions for social engagement of students in higher education
The present article analyzes social engagement as an outcome of higher education. It can be conceived as an attitude that by definition only manifests itself over time, and should therefore not be assessed or measured during the years of study or at graduation. The argument is being made that social engagement should be understood in terms of conditions for social engagement. Based on a conceptual framework three such conditions are being propose…
Essential knowledge for academic performance
The structural relationship between students' epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between students’ epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning. The results showed that the epistemological beliefs dimension ‘learning effort/process’ was positively related to the constructivist conception of teaching and learning, and negatively related to the traditional conception of teaching and learning, indicating that students recognize the importance of sel…
The interplay of perceptions of the learning environment, personality and learning strategies
Previous research on students’ learning strategies has examined the relationships between either perceptions of the learning environment or personality and learning strategies. The focus of this study was on the joint relationships between the students’ perceptions of the learning environment, their personality, and the learning strategies they used. This study was conducted in an International Business Studies programme, with 522 students partic…
Social and Cognitive Factors Driving Teamwork in Collaborative Learning Environments
A team is more than a group of people in the same space, physical or virtual. In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to the social bases of cognition, taking into consideration how social processes in groups and teams affect performance. This article investigates when and how teams in collaborative learning environments engage in building and maintaining mutually shared cognition, leading to increased perceived performance. In doi…
Redesigning a learning and assessment environment
The interplay of perceptions of the learning environment, personality and learning strategies
Previous research on students’ learning strategies has examined the relationships between either perceptions of the learning environment or personality and learning strategies. The focus of this study was on the joint relationships between the students’ perceptions of the learning environment, their personality, and the learning strategies they used. This study was conducted in an International Business Studies programme, with 522 students partic…
The structural relationship between students' epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between students’ epistemological beliefs and conceptions of teaching and learning. The results showed that the epistemological beliefs dimension ‘learning effort/process’ was positively related to the constructivist conception of teaching and learning, and negatively related to the traditional conception of teaching and learning, indicating that students recognize the importance of sel…
Essential knowledge for academic performance
The Pivotal Role of Effort Beliefs in Mediating Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Achievement Goals and Academic Motivations
The development and validation of an instrument to measure conditions for social engagement of students in higher education
The present article analyzes social engagement as an outcome of higher education. It can be conceived as an attitude that by definition only manifests itself over time, and should therefore not be assessed or measured during the years of study or at graduation. The argument is being made that social engagement should be understood in terms of conditions for social engagement. Based on a conceptual framework three such conditions are being propose…
When I say … team learning
Meeuwissen et al. present 'team learning' as a process that helps explain how successful teams work, clarifying how behavioral dimensions of team learning lead to new, shared understandings
Vertical or shared? When leadership supports team learning for educational change
University teacher teams can work toward educational change through the process of team learning behavior, which involves sharing and discussing practices to create new knowledge. However, teachers do not routinely engage in learning behavior when working in such teams and it is unclear how leadership support can overcome this problem. Therefore, this study examines when team leadership behavior supports teacher teams in engaging in learning beha…
Cafeteria Online
Many people do not consume as much healthy food as recommended. Nudging has been identified as a promising intervention strategy to increase the consumption of healthy food. The present study analyzed the effects of three body shape nudges (thin, thick, or Giacometti artwork) on food ordering and assessed the mediating role of being aware of the nudge. Students (686) and employees (218) of a German university participated in an online experimenta…
When theory joins practice
INTRODUCTION: Inclusive educational leaders promote teacher team functioning. To support leader inclusiveness, we designed and implemented a faculty development programme focusing on leader identity formation. We investigated (1) how participants' leader identity developed throughout the programme and (2) how the design principles contributed to this process, according to participants. METHODS: A design-based research approach was followed. Parti…
Are You “Nudgeable”? Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Healthy Eating Nudges in a Cafeteria Setting
Research has identified nudging as a promising and effective tool to improve healthy eating behavior in a cafeteria setting. However, it remains unclear who is and who is not "nudgeable" (susceptible to nudges). An important influencing factor at the individual level is nudge acceptance. While some progress has been made in determining influences on the acceptance of healthy eating nudges, research on how personal characteristics (such as the per…
Organizations, Learning, and Sustainability
This paper explores the role of learning in organizational responses to sustainability. Finding meaningful solutions to sustainability challenges requires companies and other actors to broaden their thinking, go beyond organizational boundaries and engage more with their stakeholders. However, broadening organizational perspective and collaborating with diverse stakeholders involves inherent political and process-related tensions. Learning has be…
Developing employability competences through career coaching in higher education
Higher education plays a pivotal role in preparing students for the dynamic and complex labour market.Helping students develop employability competences supports them in obtaining the necessary expertise and skills to facilitate their transition to the labour market and to address the requirements of their new jobs.Employability competences are considered to contribute to students' wellbeing and economic prosperity.Colleges and universities offer…
Framing Collective Moral Responsibility for Climate Change
Responding to climate change and avoiding irreversible climate tipping points requires radical and drastic action by 2030. This urgency raises serious questions for energy companies, one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), in terms of how they frame, and reframe, their response to climate change. Despite the majority of energy companies releasing ambitious statements declaring net zero carbon ambitions, this ‘talk’ has not…
Being Well in Academia
Academic faculty face high rates of indicators of low well-being, such as burnout, stress, and even mental illness, making monitoring employee well-being imperative. However, well-being is a complex construct with various conceptualizations and associated measures. This lack of consensus creates difficulties in interpreting well-being findings, with consequences for practice. We have conducted a systematic review by qualitatively analyzing 161 ar…
From Imposter to Original
This article describes how people in formal leadership roles shape and develop a leader identity through meaning‐making of experiences across time and situations. Drawing on qualitative data from in‐depth life narrative interviews with 22 organizational leaders, enriched through photo and object elicitation techniques as well as timeline mapping, we offer an understanding of how meanings made and meaning‐making modes impact leader identity develo…
Psychology (13 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Teaching method (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Cooperative learning (4 works)