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Objectives: In The Netherlands, school health care policy is decentralized to the municipalities and their Municipal Health Services (MHS) in 1990. Since then, an increasing diversity in school health care policy developed, which is is ill-understood, concerning the development of evidence-based public health. Methods: Case-study design in 4 MHS-regions. Documents and half-structured interviews are used as data sources. The analysis of the data is both qualitative and quantitative. Results: Many actors try to influence the policy process: MHS-internal actors like management and professionals as well as external actors like local health care providers, other municipal services, the municipalities and schools. Evidence is found of the use of scientific knowledge: 'body of knowledge' information as well as evidence from new research, of both local and (inter)national origin, mainly medical, but also social science research. Mainly School Health management and -professionals use scientific knowledge as a resource to influence the policy process. Other actors try to influence the policy process by using other resources like formal power, money or 'initiative'. The use of scientific knowledge is related to a combined (medical) scientific en political frame of reference. Conclusions: Policy formation in local public health takes place in a network of actors with mutual power-dependency-relations, using different resoures to influence the process. 'Evidence based public health' can be promoted by regarding evidence from scientific research as a resource in attempts to influence the policy formation process and the implementation of the outcomes of this process.

Described is research investigating level of political knowledge among 600 pupils aged 18 (last-year secondary school) in Belgium & the variables that may cause differential levels. Results show that the average level of political knowledge is low. The most significant independent variables are: sex (boys score better than girls), political participation of the parents, mass media, & (in a negative way) school. Mass media are most frequently mentioned as the most important sources of political information, & Rs with a high level of news media exposure score best. Political education at school is shown to have low impact; on the contrary, Rs who mentioned school as their most important source of political information tended to score worst. 29 Tables, 1 Figure. HA

Voor sommigen die, zoals ik, in de jaren zeventig naar de middelbare school zijn gegaan, is leerlingenparticipatie een lost cause. Geïnspireerd door oudere broers en zussen op de universiteit en door een progressieve maatschappijvisie kende iedere school wel haar actieve leerlingen die de misstanden op school aan de kaak wilden stellen; leerlingen die het recht meenden te hebben om zelf hun schoolloopbaan vorm te geven of, minimaal, daar meer grip op te krijgen. Helaas dacht de conrector daar anders over, misschien ook wel typisch voor het onderwijs: 'Jij kan die verantwoordelijkheid misschien wel aan, maar de meeste andere leerlingen niet en aangezien we hier op school maar één lijn kunnen trekken, betekent dit dat die lijn ook voor jou geldt'. Pessimisten onder de professionele volgers van het onderwijs stellen dat er al jarenlang niets wezenlijk veranderd is in het onderwijs. Het klaslokaal ziet er niet erg anders uit dan pakweg honderd jaar geleden en ook de rolverdeling tussen leerkracht en leerling is in grote lijnen gelijk gebleven. Dit wil niet zeggen dat er niet wordt nagedacht over andere vormen en vormgeving van het onderwijs. Een voorbeeld van nieuw onderwijsbeleid is de nota 'Brede scholen' die in april 2000 aan de Tweede kamer is aangeboden. In deze nota is toegezegd dat onder meer de mogelijkheden van leerlingenparticipatie onderwerp zou moeten zijn van nader onderzoek. In dat kader is in 2001 het onderzoek uitgevoerd waarvan de rapportage hier besproken wordt.

The record-breaking, bestselling Spud arrives in paperback JOHN ASPUDA MILTON takes his first hilarious steps toward manhood in this delicious, laugh-out-loud boarding school romp, full of midnight swims, raging hormones, and catastrophic holidays that will leave the entire family in hysterics and thirsty for more!

Study on the historical background and present situation of the educationally diadvantaged minority groups in the school systems of Sri lanka, with emphasis on the Tamils. Examination of the educational policies concerning the educational problems of ethnic groups. (Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries)

This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational
publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project
editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how handbooks and
digital learning platforms develop from the conceptual stage to publication. In
light of international developments in higher education publishing, Mooren
expects that the market will become fully digital, although in Europe more
slowly than in the United States. Secondly, Regine Reincke considers the larger
trends and developments in Dutch educational publishing. She works as Head
of Product for ParnasSys, an administrative system for students that is widely
used in Dutch primary schools. She arrived at this position after a career in
educational publishing. This allows her to reflect on the role of technology in the
classroom, and how it may enhance, but not replace, traditional classes and books.

'Wat wil je dan later doen in je leven?' 'Ik wil mijn leven geven voor Allah.' Nog geen veertien dagen later kreeg ik een telefoontje. Een van de jongens uit dat groepje op school was vertrokken naar Syrië. Hij werd onze eerste Syriëstrijder. Karin Heremans is al jarenlang begaan met het lot van jonge tieners die aan de schoolpoorten of op straat belaagd worden door ronselaars die hen willen isoleren van hun familie, hun vrienden en van onze samenleving. Een kleine vijfhonderd jonge mensen zijn inmiddels uit ons land vertrokken naar Syrië of Irak. De eerste tekenen van radicalisering worden vaak op school opgemerkt. Geëngageerde leerkrachten en scholen bevinden zich in de frontlinie van de strijd tegen radicalisering. Ze ontwikkelen daarom preventie- en deradicaliseringsprojecten om jongeren uit de klauwen van de ronselaars te houden. De snelheid waarmee jongeren kunnen radicaliseren is helaas omgekeerd evenredig aan het langzame en moeilijke proces van deradicalisering

Trying to gain access to an isolated rural Aboriginal community in Western Australia
This article describes my enterprise to collect data about health literacy among an isolated rural Aboriginal community in Western Australia. The aim of the research was to find out whether an adapted survey about health literacy for less developed and lower income countries could be used to collect data on this issue among a rural isolated Aboriginal community. I was confronted with three challenges into gaining access to this community. In the first place, I had never been to Australia, secondly I am not from Aboriginal descent and thirdly, the community was isolated geographically. In this article, I describe my ways of gaining access to persons from this isolated community, which included working in the canteen of the community school and preparing weekly a healthy snack for the school children, working in the local allotments which offer subsidized jobs to persons without work, and visiting local organizations. In this way, I was finally able to speak with about 18 persons, half of them being from Aboriginal descent, about issues related to health literacy.

Business event as fieldwork site?
A major methodological problem in the ethnographic study of international business elites is to make visible the social relations they draw and depend on. Business elites constitute a highly mobile social category and they mediate a growing portion of everyday social interaction via online, digital means. They are elusive, therefore, and that compromises the possibility of making direct observations of their social practices, which erodes the scope to ethnographically study this important group in the world economy. The essay shows how fieldwork on business events, such as conferences, expositions, and trade fairs, can help to overcome this problem. Such events constitute focal points and moments of crystallization in globally operating social networks, making visible a part of the international business 'theatre' that normally lags hidden. By presenting excerpts from recent fieldwork carried out in Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands, I give an impression of observables in this theatre, aiming especially at fostering an awareness of social behavior 'backstage' with a view to formulating further questions. The essay concludes with a plea to include business events as 'field schools' in study programs looking at international business elites, such as business schools and/or business economics.