Te gast zijn Marije Kesselring en Dorien Graas, onderzoeker en lector bij verschillende jeugdlectoraten, met wie ik spreek over het thema de pedagogische basis. Marije deed promotieonderzoek naar de Pedagogical Civil Society, een begrip dat haar promotor Mischa de Winter eerder al had geïntroduceerd en dat gaandeweg veranderd is in het begrip de pedagogische basis, naar analogie van het begrip de sociale basis. Dorien is als lector en daarvoor onder meer als betrokkene bij de Raad voor Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling al lange tijd pleitbezorger van dit thema. De pedagogische basis is het idee dat andere mensen dan de ouders vanzelfsprekende medeopvoeders zijn van kinderen. Denk aan informele medeopvoerders zoals buurtgenoten en formele professionals zoals leraren en medewerkers van de kinderopvang. Onderliggend idee is dat opvoeden niet overgelaten wordt aan ouders en als het mis gaat aan pedagogische specialisten, maar dat we 'allemaal opvoeders' zijn. Dat is ook de naam van het overheidsprogramma dat Marije onderzocht heeft op het begrip Pedagogical Civil Society. Omdat Civil Society betekent dat burgers onderling hun zaken regelen, is de geschiktere naam pedagogische basis gekozen. Dat betekent dat andere ouders en professionals rondom kinderen mee opvoeden als onderdeel van hun professie en dat de gemeente hen daarin stimuleert en ondersteunt. Marije en Dorien pleiten ervoor dat de pedagogische relatie en pedagogisch handelen normaal is in school en samenleving en dat we met elkaar spreken en reflecteren over hoe breed ons normaal is, zodat pedagogiek niet alleen aan specialisten wordt overgelaten.
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The impact of organized youth sport on youth development depends on various conditions in the pedagogical climate, such as how sport is delivered by youth sport coaches. While this is broadly acknowledged and provides a basis to improve youth sport and its developmental outcomes, little is known about the pedagogical perspectives of youth coaches on their practice. This study uses semi-structured interviews with 32 youth sport coaches in diverse youth sport contexts in the Netherlands. Reflexive data analysis is employed to garner insights into coaches’ role perceptions, coaching goals, and underlying values. The findings show that while youth coaches focus on sport-centered activities, many foreground non-sport dimensions such as life mentoring and working towards social inclusion as critical elements of their work, reflected in five pedagogically-oriented goals: discipline, autonomy, resilience, social abilities, and aspirations. Underlying these goals are pedagogical values such as building and maintaining caring relationships with participants. These goals and values echo scientific literature on pedagogical sport climate conditions (e.g. positive youth development), and challenge notions of youth sport as a performance-oriented and uncaring setting. The results contribute to existing knowledge about youth coaches’ pedagogical orientations, and inform the development of strategies to stimulate positive sport practices and developmental outcomes for participants.
Using the past to orientate on the present and the future can be seen as one of history’s main contributions to educating future citizens of democratic societies. Because teachers often lack useful methods for pursuing this goal, this study explores three pedagogical approaches that may help them making connections between the past, the present and the future: working with longitudinal lines (LL), with enduring human issues (EHI) and with historical analogies (HA). The efficacy of these approaches was examined in three case studies conducted in two Dutch secondary schools with eighth- to tenth-grade students (N=135) and their teachers (N=4) as participants. Explorations took place within the boundaries of the existing history curriculum and in close collaboration with the teachers who participated because they felt a need to motivate their students by means of a pedagogy to make history more useful. Findings suggest that implementing the LL- and EHI-approaches in a traditional history curriculum with chronologically ordered topics is more complicated than implementing the HA-approach. The HA-approach appears to have more potential to encourage students to use historical knowledge in present-day contexts than the other two approaches. In terms of students’ appraisals of the relevance of history, the application of the EHI-approach showed positive effects.
