Esther De Bruijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 188357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther De Bruijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | De Bruijn |
| SIGNATURE | DE BRUIJN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of the Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4391-4681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More than meets the eye: Characterising experienced vocational teachers’ knowledge
To provide high-quality education, teachers in vocational education are expected to keep their knowledge up to date. Vocational teachers’ knowledge includes both teaching knowledge and knowledge about the vocational practice teachers educate their students for. Research on teachers’ knowledge predominantly focuses on classroom practices in the context of primary and secondary education. There is significantly less research on vocational teachers’…
Understanding continuing professional development of vocational teachers
Vocational teachers are expected to keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. In order to support their professional development effectively, we need to understand how vocational teachers learn, what they learn, and why they learn. This study characterises vocational teachers’ continuing professional development. Teachers’ perceptions of their professional development were gathered during a two-and-a-half-year longitudinal study. T…
Teacher agency in the dynamics of educational practices: A theory synthesis
In this study, a theory synthesis was conducted from a sociocultural perspective to specify the situated processes involved in teacher agency development in the dynamics of educational practices. Agency is closely related to teacher wellbeing and important for teachers to create situations that enable them to act in line with their understanding of what is valuable and feasible. Both the policy landscape and the nature of educational processes, w…
Illustrating Situated Manifestations of Assessment Literacy in Higher Professional Education
This study explores how teachers’ assessment literacy manifests within assessment practices in higher professional education. While assessment literacy is a multifaceted and dynamic construct, little is known about how it unfolds in practice. Showing how assessment literacy emerges and how its meaning is shaped within assessment-related situations provides nuanced insights for context-sensitive professional development. To gain these insights, te…
One size does not fit all - mapping informal and formal professional development activities of vocational teachers
Vocational teachers continuously tailor their teaching to changes in occupational practice, technologies, and student diversity.Teacher professional development is crucial for dealing with these changes.A longitudinal study was conducted to study the professional development activities of vocational teachers in the Netherlands.It resulted in a typology of formal and informal professional development activities.This typology consolidates preceding…
Unravelling workplace educators’ judgment processes when assessing students’ performance at the workplace
The assessment of workplace learning by educators at the workplace is a complex and inherently social process, as the workplace is a participatory learning environment. We therefore propose seeing assessment as a process of judgment embedded in a community of practice and to this purpose use the philosophy of inferentialism to unravel the judgment process of workplace educators by seeing it as an interrelated system of judgments, actions and reas…
Pedagogic strategies of supervisors in healthcare placements
PURPOSE: Supervisors are responsible to train students in healthcare placements. Although there is knowledge about workplace learning and supervision in general, little is known about supervisors' pedagogic strategies in specific healthcare placements. In this study, we identify how supervisors' reasoning and interrelated actions manifest in physiotherapy and nursing work settings. METHODS: Following the stimulating recall approach, we conducted …
Pedagogic practices in the context of students’ workplace learning: A literature review
Pedagogic practices at workplaces are provided to support students’ vocational education. To contribute to the understanding of supporting workplace learning, the focus of this literature review is to operationalise how pedagogic practices play out in practice. An overview is provided of pedagogic practices applied at workplaces to support students’ vocational learning. Included studies provide descriptions of manifestations of pedagogic practice…
Teachers’ conceptions of assessment literacy
Teachers’ assessment literacy affects the quality of assessments and is, therefore, an essential part of teachers’ competence. Recent studies define assessment literacy as a dynamic, contextual and social construct, situated in practice and mediated by teachers’ identity and conceptions of assessment. This study provides a further elaboration of assessment literacy by exploring teachers’ conceptions of assessment literacy from a sociocultural per…
Illustrating conceptual understanding in international business undergraduate writing
Conceptual understanding is important for professionals because a broad and deep synthesis of knowledge enables flexible and original thinking in complex problem solving. However, little is known about the appearance of conceptual understanding at the student level. This article therefore investigates the appearance of conceptual understanding in writing, since writing skills are a highly rated competency in both education and professional domain…
Radical Equality in Ghanaian Market Fiction for Children
This article situates Ghana’s popular market fiction for children in relation to British colonial and official Ghanaian children’s literature and, following Rancière’s model of the ‘ignorant schoolmaster’, presses for an expectation of intelligence from the rowdy genre, toward ‘radical equality’. Joshua Kojo Sey’s Wonders Shall Never End (c. 2017) serves as a central case of how a text that may seem to lack control over its own abundance of ideas…
Exploring differences between international business undergraduates’ conceptual understanding
Higher education providers need to deliver graduates with the conceptual understanding required for professional life. Conceptual understanding entails a synthesis of relevant facts, theories and practices that influence occupational performance. To help align curricula with individual student differences, this study investigates differences in international business undergraduates’ conceptual understanding with regard to study progress. Seventy-…
A permissive frame for unruliness: The educational structures of Ghanaian market fiction
This article analyzes how, from the late 1990s into the mid-2000s, publishers and distributors of Ghana’s market fiction for children took advantage of and manipulated educational structures in order to produce commercial sensations. The didacticism of the texts, aimed at satisfying educational demands, establishes a permissive frame for the unruliness of the fiction, both as an industry and as a literary genre. Market fiction producers and distr…
Trading in innocence: Slave-shaming in Ghanaian children's market fiction
Ghana’s market fiction of the early 2000s takes up the issue of modern slavery, particularly in the form of forced child labour. This paper argues, first of all, that market fiction pits innocent children against negligent parents, to insist that parents shoulder the blame for their children’s descent into slavery. However, the texts frequently directly associate this notion of contemporary culpability with historical complicity in the Atlantic s…
Revealing conceptual understanding of international business
This study aims to identify an adequate approach for revealing conceptual understanding in higher professional education. Revealing students’ conceptual understanding is an important step towards developing effective curricula, assessment and aligned teaching strategies to enhance conceptual understanding in higher education. Essays and concept maps were used to determine how students’ conceptual understanding of international business can be rev…
Sensationally Reading Ghana’s Joy-Ride Magazine
This article argues that the 1980s and nineties popular literary magazine Joy-Ride attracted an exceptionally wide and regular readership by transposing the sensational aesthetics of Ghanaian oral narrative performance into the printed text. Joy-Ride retained its circulation in a period of devastating economic and sociopolitical tumult that resulted from an accumulation of natural disasters combined with the forced austerity measures of J. J. Raw…
Authentic and self-directed learning in vocational education: Challenges to vocational educators
What's Love” in an Interconnected World? Ghanaian Market Literature for Youth Responds1
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as “social `shifters'” and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the “interconnectedness” of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies ent…
Coming to Terms with New Ageist Contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road
The paper refutes Douglas McCabe's essay 'Higher Realities': New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri's The Famished for its injudicious attack on Okri as a New Ageist and detraditionalizing perennialist whose novel The Famished Road purportedly reinforces cultural imperialism and global capitalism. The paper reveals that McCabe's primary intention is to indict Okri for the latter's supposed misappropriation of the traditional abiku narrative and that Mc…
Changes in Occupational Structure and Occupational Practice: A Challenge to Education
In response to recent developments in the labour market, in occupational structure and in occupational practice, many aspects of vocational education and training are subjects of discussion and in transition. The tertiary sector is growing, some occupations are integrating while others are differentiating. New methods of production and organization require new types of employee competencies: problem-solving and social-communicative skills are bec…
Modular Vocational Education and Training in Scotland and The Netherlands: Between specificity and coherence
Modularisation has frequently been advocated as a means to reform and modernise vocational education and training, to make it more flexible and responsive to economic, technological and social change, to take more account of individual differences and needs, and to improve its coherence and efficiency as a system. In this article developments in modularising vocational education and training in two countries-Scotland and The Netherlands-are compa…
Authentic and self-directed learning in vocational education: Challenges to vocational educators
Modular Vocational Education and Training in Scotland and The Netherlands: Between specificity and coherence
Modularisation has frequently been advocated as a means to reform and modernise vocational education and training, to make it more flexible and responsive to economic, technological and social change, to take more account of individual differences and needs, and to improve its coherence and efficiency as a system. In this article developments in modularising vocational education and training in two countries-Scotland and The Netherlands-are compa…
Trading in innocence: Slave-shaming in Ghanaian children's market fiction
Ghana’s market fiction of the early 2000s takes up the issue of modern slavery, particularly in the form of forced child labour. This paper argues, first of all, that market fiction pits innocent children against negligent parents, to insist that parents shoulder the blame for their children’s descent into slavery. However, the texts frequently directly associate this notion of contemporary culpability with historical complicity in the Atlantic s…
A permissive frame for unruliness: The educational structures of Ghanaian market fiction
This article analyzes how, from the late 1990s into the mid-2000s, publishers and distributors of Ghana’s market fiction for children took advantage of and manipulated educational structures in order to produce commercial sensations. The didacticism of the texts, aimed at satisfying educational demands, establishes a permissive frame for the unruliness of the fiction, both as an industry and as a literary genre. Market fiction producers and distr…
Sensationally Reading Ghana’s Joy-Ride Magazine
This article argues that the 1980s and nineties popular literary magazine Joy-Ride attracted an exceptionally wide and regular readership by transposing the sensational aesthetics of Ghanaian oral narrative performance into the printed text. Joy-Ride retained its circulation in a period of devastating economic and sociopolitical tumult that resulted from an accumulation of natural disasters combined with the forced austerity measures of J. J. Raw…
What's Love” in an Interconnected World? Ghanaian Market Literature for Youth Responds1
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as “social `shifters'” and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the “interconnectedness” of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies ent…
Changes in Occupational Structure and Occupational Practice: A Challenge to Education
In response to recent developments in the labour market, in occupational structure and in occupational practice, many aspects of vocational education and training are subjects of discussion and in transition. The tertiary sector is growing, some occupations are integrating while others are differentiating. New methods of production and organization require new types of employee competencies: problem-solving and social-communicative skills are bec…
Modular Vocational Education and Training in Scotland and The Netherlands: Between specificity and coherence
Modularisation has frequently been advocated as a means to reform and modernise vocational education and training, to make it more flexible and responsive to economic, technological and social change, to take more account of individual differences and needs, and to improve its coherence and efficiency as a system. In this article developments in modularising vocational education and training in two countries-Scotland and The Netherlands-are compa…
Changes in Occupational Structure and Occupational Practice: A Challenge to Education
In response to recent developments in the labour market, in occupational structure and in occupational practice, many aspects of vocational education and training are subjects of discussion and in transition. The tertiary sector is growing, some occupations are integrating while others are differentiating. New methods of production and organization require new types of employee competencies: problem-solving and social-communicative skills are bec…
Coming to Terms with New Ageist Contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road
The paper refutes Douglas McCabe's essay 'Higher Realities': New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri's The Famished for its injudicious attack on Okri as a New Ageist and detraditionalizing perennialist whose novel The Famished Road purportedly reinforces cultural imperialism and global capitalism. The paper reveals that McCabe's primary intention is to indict Okri for the latter's supposed misappropriation of the traditional abiku narrative and that Mc…
What's Love” in an Interconnected World? Ghanaian Market Literature for Youth Responds1
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as “social `shifters'” and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the “interconnectedness” of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies ent…
Authentic and self-directed learning in vocational education: Challenges to vocational educators
Revealing conceptual understanding of international business
This study aims to identify an adequate approach for revealing conceptual understanding in higher professional education. Revealing students’ conceptual understanding is an important step towards developing effective curricula, assessment and aligned teaching strategies to enhance conceptual understanding in higher education. Essays and concept maps were used to determine how students’ conceptual understanding of international business can be rev…
Sensationally Reading Ghana’s Joy-Ride Magazine
This article argues that the 1980s and nineties popular literary magazine Joy-Ride attracted an exceptionally wide and regular readership by transposing the sensational aesthetics of Ghanaian oral narrative performance into the printed text. Joy-Ride retained its circulation in a period of devastating economic and sociopolitical tumult that resulted from an accumulation of natural disasters combined with the forced austerity measures of J. J. Raw…
A permissive frame for unruliness: The educational structures of Ghanaian market fiction
This article analyzes how, from the late 1990s into the mid-2000s, publishers and distributors of Ghana’s market fiction for children took advantage of and manipulated educational structures in order to produce commercial sensations. The didacticism of the texts, aimed at satisfying educational demands, establishes a permissive frame for the unruliness of the fiction, both as an industry and as a literary genre. Market fiction producers and distr…
Trading in innocence: Slave-shaming in Ghanaian children's market fiction
Ghana’s market fiction of the early 2000s takes up the issue of modern slavery, particularly in the form of forced child labour. This paper argues, first of all, that market fiction pits innocent children against negligent parents, to insist that parents shoulder the blame for their children’s descent into slavery. However, the texts frequently directly associate this notion of contemporary culpability with historical complicity in the Atlantic s…
Exploring differences between international business undergraduates’ conceptual understanding
Higher education providers need to deliver graduates with the conceptual understanding required for professional life. Conceptual understanding entails a synthesis of relevant facts, theories and practices that influence occupational performance. To help align curricula with individual student differences, this study investigates differences in international business undergraduates’ conceptual understanding with regard to study progress. Seventy-…
Radical Equality in Ghanaian Market Fiction for Children
This article situates Ghana’s popular market fiction for children in relation to British colonial and official Ghanaian children’s literature and, following Rancière’s model of the ‘ignorant schoolmaster’, presses for an expectation of intelligence from the rowdy genre, toward ‘radical equality’. Joshua Kojo Sey’s Wonders Shall Never End (c. 2017) serves as a central case of how a text that may seem to lack control over its own abundance of ideas…
Pedagogic practices in the context of students’ workplace learning: A literature review
Pedagogic practices at workplaces are provided to support students’ vocational education. To contribute to the understanding of supporting workplace learning, the focus of this literature review is to operationalise how pedagogic practices play out in practice. An overview is provided of pedagogic practices applied at workplaces to support students’ vocational learning. Included studies provide descriptions of manifestations of pedagogic practice…
Teachers’ conceptions of assessment literacy
Teachers’ assessment literacy affects the quality of assessments and is, therefore, an essential part of teachers’ competence. Recent studies define assessment literacy as a dynamic, contextual and social construct, situated in practice and mediated by teachers’ identity and conceptions of assessment. This study provides a further elaboration of assessment literacy by exploring teachers’ conceptions of assessment literacy from a sociocultural per…
Illustrating conceptual understanding in international business undergraduate writing
Conceptual understanding is important for professionals because a broad and deep synthesis of knowledge enables flexible and original thinking in complex problem solving. However, little is known about the appearance of conceptual understanding at the student level. This article therefore investigates the appearance of conceptual understanding in writing, since writing skills are a highly rated competency in both education and professional domain…
Unravelling workplace educators’ judgment processes when assessing students’ performance at the workplace
The assessment of workplace learning by educators at the workplace is a complex and inherently social process, as the workplace is a participatory learning environment. We therefore propose seeing assessment as a process of judgment embedded in a community of practice and to this purpose use the philosophy of inferentialism to unravel the judgment process of workplace educators by seeing it as an interrelated system of judgments, actions and reas…
Pedagogic strategies of supervisors in healthcare placements
PURPOSE: Supervisors are responsible to train students in healthcare placements. Although there is knowledge about workplace learning and supervision in general, little is known about supervisors' pedagogic strategies in specific healthcare placements. In this study, we identify how supervisors' reasoning and interrelated actions manifest in physiotherapy and nursing work settings. METHODS: Following the stimulating recall approach, we conducted …
Teacher agency in the dynamics of educational practices: A theory synthesis
In this study, a theory synthesis was conducted from a sociocultural perspective to specify the situated processes involved in teacher agency development in the dynamics of educational practices. Agency is closely related to teacher wellbeing and important for teachers to create situations that enable them to act in line with their understanding of what is valuable and feasible. Both the policy landscape and the nature of educational processes, w…
Illustrating Situated Manifestations of Assessment Literacy in Higher Professional Education
This study explores how teachers’ assessment literacy manifests within assessment practices in higher professional education. While assessment literacy is a multifaceted and dynamic construct, little is known about how it unfolds in practice. Showing how assessment literacy emerges and how its meaning is shaped within assessment-related situations provides nuanced insights for context-sensitive professional development. To gain these insights, te…
One size does not fit all - mapping informal and formal professional development activities of vocational teachers
Vocational teachers continuously tailor their teaching to changes in occupational practice, technologies, and student diversity.Teacher professional development is crucial for dealing with these changes.A longitudinal study was conducted to study the professional development activities of vocational teachers in the Netherlands.It resulted in a typology of formal and informal professional development activities.This typology consolidates preceding…
More than meets the eye: Characterising experienced vocational teachers’ knowledge
To provide high-quality education, teachers in vocational education are expected to keep their knowledge up to date. Vocational teachers’ knowledge includes both teaching knowledge and knowledge about the vocational practice teachers educate their students for. Research on teachers’ knowledge predominantly focuses on classroom practices in the context of primary and secondary education. There is significantly less research on vocational teachers’…
Understanding continuing professional development of vocational teachers
Vocational teachers are expected to keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date. In order to support their professional development effectively, we need to understand how vocational teachers learn, what they learn, and why they learn. This study characterises vocational teachers’ continuing professional development. Teachers’ perceptions of their professional development were gathered during a two-and-a-half-year longitudinal study. T…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Vocational education (7 works) · Art (5 works)