Chapter 7: Tactics – Eight techniques for data collection
As data collection in designed action sampling is almost entirely done using the form in Figure 4.2, all eight data collection techniques below are linked to different parts of the form.
Experience sampling is an...
Chapter 6: Model – Eight strategic working models
When we come to the eight working models, we leave philosophical deep questions and become more concrete. This is about what to do in practical terms and how to do it. However, we are...
Chapter 5: Logic – Six theoretical ways of thinking
The first six parts of this review take us on a journey through the wonderful and confusing world of philosophy. More specifically, the world of philosophy of science. It addresses questions such as what...
Chapter 3: Education in balance
This chapter is about a simple but powerful theory, a theory of balance, and its various implications for education. It is not about budget balance, but rather about what happens when people achieve a...
Chapter 2: Value creation in education
What is valuable? We are all confronted with this simple question every day. Work or family? Career or friends? Travelling or saving money? Life constantly confronts us with required choices between incomparable values. Figuring...
Chapter 4: Designed action sampling in education
Now we come to the main theme of the book: designed actions sampling. What exactly is this? There are a few different ways to answer that question. The answers are slightly different in length....
Chapter 1: Teacher-led science in education
Scientific teachers. Taste the words. What feelings do they evoke? Curiosity? Scepticism? Indifference? It probably varies depending on who you ask. But regardless of what you feel as a teacher, since 2010 there is...
An introduction
It has been said that in 1899, the head of the US Patent Office, Charles H. Duell, submitted his resignation on the grounds:
Everything that can be invented has now been invented, so we might...
The journey behind the book
This book contains insights generated during a nine-year learning journey, from 2012 to 2020. The work has involved thousands of people - teachers, school leaders, school developers, students and other participants in preschools and...