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Zwaans, Annemieke; van der Veen, Ineke; Volman, Monique; ten Dam, Geert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This article concerns the relationship between social-educational goals and the school context. We used a questionnaire to map the educational goals of teachers in pre-vocational education in the field of social competence, and investigated whether these goals were related to the percentage of students from ethnic-minority groups and to the urban…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Urban Environment, Educational Environment
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Zwaans, Annemieke; ten Dam, Geert; Volman, Monique – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
This article focuses on the enhancement of social competence of students in secondary education. In the literature two perspectives on social competence can be distinguished: an "educating for adulthood" perspective and an "educating for citizenship" perspective. From each perspective, goals are formulated for what education should be aimed at and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Citizenship Education