Starting at january, 2007 the Netherlands have new legislation that has high expectations of social support by civil society. The idea of civil society is relatively new to the structure of Dutch society and the ways in ...

This paper uses six characteristics of action research outlined by Street (2003) to organize the description of an interprofessional education (ipe) project at a Canadian university. A brief background about the project ...

Neighbourhoods are focus of considerable attention, identified as appropriate sites for innovation in both governance and service design. Persistent social problems exist in some neighbourhoods of Enschede (a town of 160.000 ...

Several disciplines form alliances in primary schools and secondary schools to guide pupils with complex and multifaceted learning and behavioural problems. The functioning of these alliances is discussed in this article. ...

The starting point of this article is that social workers exert a certain amount of “discretionary power”. This discretionary power allows workers to interpret the rules of the organisation (Lipsky, 1980; Luyten, 1993; ...