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Prof. dr. A. (Jos) de Kock

Prof. dr. A. (Jos) de Kock

Hoogleraar en vakgroepvoorzitter Praktische Theologie | Rector | Coördinator Educatieve master

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Education, degrees
  • 2013–2014: Opleiding Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO)
  • 2003–2008: Master Religie en theologie: Godsdienst in de moderne wereld, Deeltijdstudie Godgeleerdheid, Universiteit Utrecht
  • 2005: PhD, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen: “Arranging Learning Environments for New Learning. Educational Theory, Practical Knowledge, and Everyday Practice.”
  • 1997–2000: Doctoraal Onderwijskunde, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
  • 1996–1997: Propedeuse Pedagogiek, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Academic positions and teaching experience
  • 2021-: Coördinator Educatieve master
  • 2019–: Rector ETF Leuven
  • 2019–: Hoogleraar Praktische Theologie aan de ETF Leuven
  • 2018–2019: Gasthoofddocent Praktische Theologie aan de ETF Leuven
  • 2016: Gastdocent, eendaagse bijdrage in nascholingsmodule (master / post master niveau) youth ministry & youth culture van Universiteit van Kopenhagen, Denemarken
  • 2014–2018: Vaste gastdocent catechetiek aan de Theologische Universiteit Kampen
  • 2011–2018: Universitair Docent Praktische Theologie (Educatie en Catechetiek) aan de Protestantse Theologische Universiteit (PThU) en medewerker van het Onderzoekscentrum voor Jeugd, Kerk en Cultuur (OJKC) van de PThU
  • 2009–2011: Docent catechetiek PThU in de predikantsmaster
  • 2007–2009: Docent aan de Evangelische Hogeschool Amersfoort (vakken: Bijbel & Wetenschap en wetenschapsleer)
  • 2007–2008: Tutor aan de Evangelische Hogeschool Amersfoort
  • 2006–2007: Docent module identiteit en onderwijsvernieuwing lerarenopleiding voortgezet onderwijs Driestar educatief
  • 2001–2003: Docent van twee vakken binnen de opleiding onderwijskunde van de RU, te weten: 1e-doctoraal vak ’themacursus onderwijskunde’ en 2e-doctoraal vak ‘ontwerpen van leeromgevingen’

Academic memberships

  • 2019–: Board member of the International Academy of Practical Theology
  • 2017–: Board member of the Religious Education Association, chairing the Standing Committee Religious Education in academic disciplines and institutions
  • 2016–: Executive Custodian (treasurer and website affairs) International Academy of Practical Theology
  • 2014–2019: Member of the Executive Committee International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry
  • 2013–2019: Chief editor Journal of Youth & Theology, Journal of the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry
  • 2011–2016: Editorial member of Handelingen, tijdschrift voor Praktische Theologie en Religiewetenschap
  • NOSTER (Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion, www.noster.org)
  • IAPCHE (The International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education, www.iapche.org)
  • NGPG (Nederlands GodsdienstPedagogisch Genootschap)
Selected Bibliography

Books

  • With Amy Casteel, Annemie Dillen, and Armin Kummer, eds. Crisis, Fear and Hope: An Introduction into Practical Theological Reflections. International Academy of Practical Theology, Conference Series 3. Fellbach: Wiesinger, 2023.
  • With Andreas J. Beck and Steven C. van den Heuvel, eds. The Vitality of Evangelical Theology: Celebrating ETF Leuven at 40. Leuven: Peeters, 2022.
  • With Bård Norheim. The Five Questions: An Academic Handbook in Youth Ministry Research. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022.
  • Wait a Minute in Stressful Times: A Practical Theological Account of Learning in Encounter. Leuven: Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, 2019.
  • Opvoeden is gekkenwerk. 11 uitgangspunten. Heerenveen: Royal Jongbloed, 2017.
  • With W. Verboom (e.a.). Altijd leerling. Basisboek catechese. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2011.
  • With Meester-Van Laar, J. Roeland, and P. Vos, eds. Jong: Mores en sores van jongeren van nu. Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn, 2010.
  • “Arranging Learning Environments for New Learning. Educational Theory, Practical Knowledge, and Everyday Practice.” PhD Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmengen, 2005.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Leadership in Theological Education in the Time of Coronavirus.” Religious Education 118, no. 3 (2023): 277–87.
  • With Ronelle Sonnenberg and Elsbeth Vogel. “A Rich Palette of Bible Use: A Theoretical and Empirical Contribution from the Context of Protestant Christian Primary Schools in The Netherlands.” Teaching Theology & Religion 26, no. 1 (2023): 3–14.
  • With Lydia van Leersum-Bekebrede, Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Marcel Barnard. “Performing God with Children.” Journal of Youth & Theology 22, no. 2 (2023): 147–67.
  • “Youth Ministry Research: Faith for the Next Generation.” In The Vitality of Evangelical Theology: Celebrating ETF Leuven at 40, edited by Andreas J. Beck, Jos de Kock, and Steven C. van den Heuvel, 185–96. Leuven: Peeters, 2022.
  • With Lydia van Leersum-Bekebrede, Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Marcel Barnard. “Children’s Agency in Worship.” International Journal of Practical Theology 26, no. 2 (2022): 190–209.
  • With Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, and Marcel Barnard. “‘It Is Never Good. Really, It’s Just Never Good’: A Dominant Theme in the Life Story Accounts of Strictly Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults about Their Religious Identity Development.” Journal of Beliefs & Values 43, no. 2 (2022): 123–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2021.1920232.
  • With Johanna J. Markus, Gerdien Bertram-Troost, Bram de Muynck, and Marcel Barnard. “Distinction, Identification, and Recognition: Teachers in Orthodox Protestant Schools on their Faith and Religious Others.” The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society 11, no. 1 (2021): 137–54. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v11i01/137-154.
  • With Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, and Marcel Barnard. “Religious Identity Exploration in the Life Stories of Strictly Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults in the Netherlands.” Journal of Youth and Theology 20, no. 2 (2021): 224–46. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-bja10012.
  • With Judith Hildebrandt and Jack Barentsen. “Personal Bible Reading and the Faith Formation of Teenagers in a Digital Age.” Journal of Youth and Theology 20, no. 2 (2021): 165–90. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-02002004.
  • With Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, and Marcel Barnard. “Religious Identity Commitments of Emerging Adults Raised in Strictly Reformed Contexts in the Netherlands.” Journal of Beliefs & Values, 42, no. 2 (2021): 149–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2020.1782612.
  • With Ronelle Sonnenberg and Corina Nagel-Herweijer. “A Rich Palette of Bible Use: A Theoretical and Empirical Contribution from the Context of Protestant Christian Secondary Schools in the Netherlands.” Teaching Theology & Religion 24, no. 4 (2021): 219–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/teth.12596.
  • With Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, and Marcel Barnard. “Influencing Contextual Factors in the Religious Identity Development of Strict Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults in The Netherlands.” Religious Education 116, no. 4 (2021): 383–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2021.1939546.
  • With Lydia van Leersum-Bekebrede, Martijn Oosterbaan, Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Marcel Barnard. “Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces.” Material Religion 17, no. 5 (2021): 557–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2021.1996941.
  • “Learning in Encounter and Addressing Normativity in Religious Education Faculties/Programs.” Religious Education 115, no. 4 (2020): 426–35.
  • With Johanna J. Markus, Gerdien Bertram-Troost, Bram de Muynck, and Marcel Barnard. “Stimulating Inquisitiveness: Teachers at Orthodox Protestant Schools About Their Roles in Religious Socialization.” Religious Education 114, no. 4 (2019): 513–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2019.1581874.
  • With Lydia Van Leersum-Bekebrede, Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Marcel Barnard. “Setting the Stage for Children’s Participation in Worship.” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality 24, no. 2 (2019): 166–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/1364436X.2019.1619533.
  • With Lydia Van Leersum-Bekebrede, Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Marcel Barnard. “Deconstructing Ideals of Worship with Children.” Studia Liturgica 49, no. 1 (2019): 71–88.
  • With Anne-Marije de Bruin-Wassinkmaat, Elsbeth Visser-Vogel, Cok Bakker, and Marcel Barnard. “Being Young and Strictly Religious: A Review of the Literature on the Religious Identity Development of Strictly Religious Adolescents.” Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 19, no. 1 (2019): 62–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2019.1566067.
  • With Ronelle Sonnenberg, and Erik Renkema. “Normativity in Empirical Youth Ministry Research.” Journal of Youth and Theology 17, no. 2 (2018): 81–103. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-17021047.
  • With E. Visser-Vogel, C. Bakker, and M. Barnard. “‘I Have a Dutch Nationality, but Others Do Not See Me as a Dutchman, of Course’. Perception of and Participation in Society of Orthoprax Young Muslim Adults in the Netherlands.” Journal of Muslims in Europe 7 (2018): 94–120.
  • With J.J. Markus, A. de Muynck, G.D. Bertram-Troost, and M. Barnard. “How Cohesion Matters: Teachers and Their Choice to Work at an Orthodox Protestant School.” Journal of School Choice 5, no. 2 (2018): 94–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2018.1437313.
  • With B.E. Norheim. “Youth Ministry Research and the Empirical.” International Journal of Practical Theology 22, no. 1 (2018): 69–83.
  • “Challenges to Apprenticeship Learning in Religious Education: Narrow Use of the Apprenticeship Model and Current Developments in Youth Ministry.” Religious Education 112, no. 3 (2017): 232–41.
  • “Volwassen worden in de kerk.” Radix 43, no. 2 (2017): 78–84.
  • With P.M. Sonnenberg. “Ritual Links Worship and Learning. An Empirical and Theoretical Contribution from the Perspective of Young People Participating in the Lord’s Supper.” Studia Liturgica 46, no. 1–2 (2016): 68–84.
  • With P.M. Sonnenberg, M. Nel, and M. Barnard. “Being Together in Youth Worship: An Empirical Study in Protestant Dutch Contexts.” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 71, no. 2 (2015). https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i2.2832.
  • “Theologiseren met kinderen als construerende theologie.” Tijdschrift voor Praktische Theologie en Religiewetenschap 42, no. 4 (2015): 59–66.
  • With A. Dillen. “Theologiseren met kinderen: recente ontwikkelingen.” Tijdschrift voor Praktische Theologie en Religiewetenschap 42, no. 4 (2015): 3–6.
  • “What about Learning in Practical Theological Studies? Toward More Conceptual Clarity.” SAGE Open 5, no. 2 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015592682.
  • “Being a Church through Religious Learning at the Street Level.” Ecclesial Practices 2 (2015): 217–34.
  • With W. Elhorst, and M. Barnard. “The Comeback of Parents in Catechesis Practices.” Journal of Youth and Theology 14, no. 2 (2015): 155–71.
  • Handelingen. Tijdschrift voor praktische theologie en religiewetenschap. Themanummer Theologiseren met kinderen 4, 2015.
  • “Schools and Religious Communities’ Contributions to the Religious Formation of Christian Youth.” International Journal of Christianity and Education 19, no. 2 (2015): 121–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056997115583428.
  • With Visser-Vogel, M. Barnard, and C. Bakker. “Sources for Religious Identity Development of Orthoprax Muslim Adolescents in the Netherlands.” Journal of Muslims in Europe 4, no. 1 (2015): 90–112. https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341304.
  • “A Typology of Catechetical Learning Environments.” International Journal of Practical Theology 18, no. 2 (2014): 264–86. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2014-0027.
  • With P.M. Sonnenberg, M. Nel, and M. Barnard. “Shaping Youth Worship: Modes of Active Participation.” Questions Liturgiques 95, no. 3–4 (2014): 216–36. https://doi.org/10.2143/QL.95.3.3075945.
  • Handelingen. Tijdschrift voor praktische theologie en religiewetenschap. Themanummer De professionalisering van de theoloog 3, 2014.
  • With Van den Bosch. “Waar begin je? En waar eindig je?” Handelingen: Tijdschrift voor praktische theologie en religiewetenschap 41, no. 3 (2014): 64–68.
  • “Leren geloven: de kerk als leergemeenschap?” In De kerk leeft: vitaal gemeente-zijn vandaag, edited by J. Hoek, 163–87. Heereveen: Groen, 2014.“Catechists’ Conceptions of Their Catechetical Learning Environments.” International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 14, no. 1 (2014): 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2014.901635.
  • “Promising Approaches to Catechesis in Church Communities: Towards a Research Framework.” International Journal of Practical Theology 16, no. 2 (2013): 176–96. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2012-0013.
  • With R. Sonnenberg. “Embodiment: Reflections on Religious Learning in Youth Ministry.” Journal of Youth and Theology 11, no. 1–2 (2012): 7–22. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055093-90000049.
  • With E. Visser-Vogel, J. Westerink, A. Barnard, and C. Bakker. “Developing a Framework for Research on Religious Identity Development of Highly Committed Adolescents.” Religious Education 107, no. 2 (2012): 108–21.
  • “Een veelbelovende benadering. Catechese volgens het meester-gezel-leerlingmodel.” Handelingen: Tijdschrift voor praktische theologie en religiewetenschap 39, no. 2 (2012): 21–31.
  • “Volgen of ontvolgen? Wat de kerk met social media moet.” In Handboek kerk en social media, edited by E. Van den Berg and F.G. Bosman, 79–87, 2012.
  • Handelingen. Tijdschrift voor praktische theologie en religiewetenschap. Themanummer Kerk & Sociale Media 3, 2012.
  • With J. Roeland, and P. H. Vos. “Beyond Individualization: Neo-Evangelical Lessons for Religious Socialization.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 32, no. 3 (2011): 329–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2011.627699.
  • With J. Roeland. “Beyond Individualization. Sociality and the Re-Configuration of Authority among Young Christians.” In Bridging the Gap. Connecting Christian Faith and Professional Practice in a Pluralistic Society, edited by A. de Muynck, J. Hegeman, and P. Vos, 189–200. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press, 2011.
  • “Religious Identity Development of Christian Youth in a Modern Context.” In Bridging the Gap. Connecting Christian Faith and Professional Practice in a Pluralistic Society, edited by A. de Muynck, J. Hegeman, and P. Vos, 177–88. Sioux (Iowa): Dordt College Press, 2011.
  • “Ruimte Voor Monoreligieuze Vorming.” Tijdschrift Voor Onderwijsrecht & Onderwijsbeleid 21, no. 1–2 (2010): 59–66.
  • “Educational Change and Christian Ideology: How Identity Shapes Educational Innovation.” Christian Higher Education 8, no. 4 (2009): 304–26.
  • “Geloof in de Moderniteit: Goed Voor Mij, Voor Hier En Voor Nu.” In Tussen Hoofd En Hart: Geloofsbeleving Onder Gereformeerde Studenten, edited by R. Kruizinga, hfst 3. Barneveld: De Vuurbaak, 2008.
  • “Onderwijsvernieuwing en de professionele identiteit van de docent: handvatten voor de vernieuwingspraktijk.” Studiehuisreeks, no. 77 (2007): 1–52.
  • With A. Sleegers, and M.J.M Voeten. “New Learning and Choices of Secondary School Teachers When Arranging Learning Environments.” Teaching and Teacher Education 21, no. 7 (2005): 799–816.
  • With A. Sleegers, and M.J.M. Voeten. “Nieuwe Leeromgevingen in de bovenbouw van het havo en vwo: de ontwikkeling van een meetinstrument.” In Onderwijskunde in theorie en praktijk: Bijdragen aangeboden aan Cor Aarnoutse bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, edited by L. Verhoeven and R. Voeten, 50–67. Tilburg: Zwijsen, 2004.
  • With A. Sleegers, and M.J.M Voeten. “New Learning and the Classification of Learning Environments in Secondary Education.” Review of Educational Research 74, no. 2 (2004): 141–70.