Recently I attended an inspiring conference on character education: Character Education: theories, practices, processes 13th, Eton, UK, 13 November 2019.The conference was organised by Eton College’s Tony Little Center in cooperation with BrainCanDo. Character education is all about instilling values like respect, justice and good citizenship in students. My aim was to gain inspiration about […]
Workshop ‘Do it yourself’
The Theunissen sisters set your brain and body in motion in an unusual way during the Permanent Beta Festival . About the workshop Down-to-earth and with unbridled enthusiasm, the Theunissen sisters are committed to a better life. Usually each in her own way, especially for Permanent Beta together. What do you get? An explosive mixture […]
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IML op het INNOVATE festival 5 oktober
Op 5 oktober staat Future Life Research op het INNOVATE Festival in Arnhem. Wij houden een inloop-workshop over Interactive Micro Learning (IML), de techniek achter MooierMens.app. Zelf besluiten wat, hoe en wanneer je wilt leren? Zelf je eigen voornemens echt gaan uitvoeren? Zelf je gedrag veranderen? Dat kun je zelf met een nieuwe webapp die […]
Time-saving creativity
When cleaning up, I came across a drawing that I must have made around the age of 16. The assignment was to draw a messy antique store and I went to work enthusiastically (see bottom left of the drawing). But soon I saw that I had started too small so that the drawing would never […]
Benefit performance for young homeless people
Sound of Balance, YourS, Londonhaze en gasten gaven op zaterdag 23 maart van 20:30-01.00 uur een benefiet concert in Art Cafe SamSam for young homeless people in Apeldoorn. The evening started with intense listening music from the vocal/piano duo Soundofbalance.nl. After that YourS played with self-written songs in a mix of soul, funk, blues and […]
Paper accepted for the Association for Moral Education
The Virtues Mirror is a questionnaire for online self-evaluation of moral behaviour. The questionnaire approaches virtues as state (not trait) to promote practicing virtues. The preliminary conclusion is that the questionnaire offers a good starting point for moral development. Theunissen, N.C.M. (2018) The Virtues Mirror: a new online self-evaluation questionnaire to support moral development. Paper […]
The Virtues Mirror is fully operational.
Status update at ResearchGate.net The Virtues Mirror: a new online self-evaluation questionnaire to support moral development. The Virtues Mirror (in Dutch: Deugdenspiegel) is fully operational. Data-collection for validation and reliability tests is running in a convenience sample of people joining the MyVirtues website (in Dutch: MijnDeugden.nl). The questionnaire is created based on a scientific literature […]
Negotiating with yourself: Don’t!
Negotiating with yourself = telling yourself that you don’t have to implement your good intentions for reasons that are clear to you. These were your own good plans, right? So: negotiating with yourself? DON’T! Does this sounds familiar: you have made a good intention and when the time comes, you convince yourself that you don’t […]
MyVirtues status update
Status update at ResearchGate.net Virtues for the 21th century: moral competences and moral development using ubiquitous learning Goal: Open any newspaper and you’ll see that society can use more virtuous behavior. However, virtues are often considered ‘old fashioned’ and people do not relate them to their (working)life. Therefore, the project MijnDeugden.nl (Dutch for MyVirtues.nl) is […]
