The mission of Marleen Janssen
Marleen Janssen is the world's first professor of deafblindness. Thanks to her academic endeavours, it is becoming ever clearer how to improve the lives of people who can hardly hear and see.
The weekly online video magazine Unifocus highlights topics related to the University of Groningen in the fields of research and society, student life, teaching, policy and internationalization.
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30 November 2021
Coming to the Netherlands on your own: how do we care for unaccompanied refugee children?
Refugee children under the age of fifteen who arrive in the Netherlands alone do not end up in an asylum seekers' centre, but in a foster family. For her doctoral research, Jet Rip looked into the success of these placements. Which revealed that...
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29 November 2021
Cooperation: harder than it looks
Everyone and everything cooperates – educational institutions, companies, government institutions, NGOs, and of course individuals. But things often go wrong, even if all parties have the best intentions. Why is that? Rafael Wittek and Thomas...
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23 November 2021
Filosofie op het vmbo – filosofie voor álle leerlingen
Waarom kunnen vmbo-leerlingen het vak filosofie niet volgen? Kritisch nadenken, meningen onderzoeken, je eigen oordeel leren vormen – dat zijn toch onmisbare vaardigheden in onze maatschappij? Vanuit die vraag ontwikkelde Eva-Anne Le Coultre het...