The Teenage Brain: guide or inspire? Jelle Jolles, a neuropsychologist with the Centre for Brain and Learning and author of ‘The Adolescent Brain. He speaks about the teenager as “work in progress” and shows how the development of the brain and cognitive abilities are dependent on the active support of teachers and parents.
How a Little Man Can Change the World “I thought all Moroccans grew up to be criminals,” little Mohammed said when he was ten. Little of stature and big of mind, this boy challenged himself to find out whether there is a future for Moroccans in the Netherlands. He started a search for successful Dutch…
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Equality in a super diverse class Iliass El Hadioui, professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, studies the relationship between street and school culture. Thereby distinguishing feminine from masculine values. In this talk he will share the most important insights from his research on social exclusion of youngsters from various ethnic backgrounds.
Empower your kids with Scrum @ home Frank de Wit is father of four young kids and a designer that ran into a software development method at work that optimizes workflow, focuses on the outcome and creates happy workers. His talk will focus on the learnings he and his wife had while using this method…
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The secret of tiger moms Dr. Cha-Hsuan Liu is a university lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University. Currently she teaches Youth Study, Multicultural society and Health in society. Her work focuses not only on Diversity sensitivity and Health but also on other interdisciplinary studies, such as Education and Innovation Sciences. She…
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