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Children in Public or 'Public Children': An Alternative to Constructing One's Own Life KU Leuven Ghent University
This article arises from the thoughts of Hannah Arendt, and more especially from her idea that the essence of education is the renewal of the world. That idea forms the backdrop to a consideration of the current interest in education as the construction of one's own life. I argue that the will to construct one's own life is not a natural, biological given, but a product of a 'biopolitical machine'. In the first part of the article I challenge ...
The movement assessment battery for children: similarities and differences between 4- and 5-year-old children from Flanders and the United States Ghent University
Purpose: To explore the possibility that 4- and 5-year-old Flemish children would perform differently from children of the same age in the US standardization sample of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC). Participants: Two hundred sixty-seven 4-year-old and 239 5-year-old Flemish children without known impairments, from regular schools, took part in the study (260 boys, 246 girls). Methods: All children were individually ...
Developing the IDEFICS community-based intervention program to enhance eating behaviors in 2- to 8-year-old children: findings from focus groups with children and parents Ghent University
One purpose of 'identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants' (IDEFICS) is to implement a standardized community-based multi-component healthy eating intervention for younger children in eight different countries. The present study describes important influencing factors for dietary behaviors among children aged 2-8 years old in order to determine the best approaches for developing the ...
Children in the Web 2.0 world - the researchers' perspective, presented in Workshop 72 (Children in the Web 2.0 World: The European Approach), Fourth Internet Governance Forum, 15 - 18 November 2009, Sharm-El-Sheik, Egypt. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Children in the Web 2.0 world - the researchers perspective
ASCIT sick children: Again at my School by fostering Communication through Interactive Technologies for long term sick children Hasselt University
In this paper, we present the design, development, implementation and evaluation of a virtual learning environment that supports the learning process of long term sick children. We envision a solution that helps to establish high quality involvement of these children in a communication based scenario between the place where the child stays/has been moved and the original classroom/school setting. The system that we developed is based on concrete ...