Projects
What Makes Teaching Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) Special? An Examination of Effective SEN Teaching and Contingency Effects in Inclusive and Special Education Settings in Flanders. KU Leuven
Effective teaching is widely recognized as a central factor contributing to students’ learning and development. While most teacher effectiveness models adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to effective teaching, recent studies have endorsed the importance of contingency effects: effective teaching can look different depending on the specific classroom context, i.e., the group of learners to whom teachers teach and the classroom setting in which ...
Opening the black box: the decision-making process on reasonable accommodations for children with special educational needs in primary mainstream education KU Leuven
Reasonable accommodations (RA) are described as essential adaptations or adjustments to make the school environment accessible for all students, and especially for students with special educational needs (SEN). The right of RA is an integral part of the UN Convention on the Rights for People with Disabilities (CRPD) where it is stated that schools should provide students with SEN with maximal chances to participate in mainstream education by ...
The Educational Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education in Developing Countries KU Leuven
The fast growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education has given rise to the expectation that new technologies would significantly influence the quality of education. In spite of significant development of ICT in education, there is a great concern on ICT use in Higher Education (HE). Several researches have done in the past years on the use of ICT in education and associated factors. However, less is known as to the ...
Citizenship: a matter of schooling? An educational inquiry into the normativity of citizenship education KU Leuven
Over the last three decades, the promotion of citizenship education (CE) in schools has received renewed and abundant attention on both national and international educational agendas. This stressing of the importance of CE in schools often appears to be paired with a rather self-evident manner of approaching the role of schools in CE and the relationship between education and citizenship. Descriptions or justifications of the choices ...
Educational freedom in relation to evidence-based education KU Leuven
My insider’s perspective as an educational developer and teacher trainer motivates me to be attentive on pedagogical questions and educational -in the sense of what’s happening in formal school institutions- issues. One of this topics has to do with -the for me sensitizing concept of- educational freedom. The interrelatedness of the notions ‘education’ and ‘freedom’ and the meaning, implications and conditions of educational freedom could ...
The role of education in peacebuilding: An analysis of the impact of Côte d'Ivoire's educational content and practices. University of Antwerp
Education and mental health in an era of educational expansion. Ghent University
Educational differences in mental health and subjective well-being (SWB) are among the most consistent findings in social epidemiology. In general, lower educated people experience more psychological distress, a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms 1 and less SWB 3-8. Is this the result of selection effects leading more fit individuals toward higher credentials? Although we know that selection processes are present 9 educational ...
Educational assortative mating in Europe and the reversal of the gender imbalance in tertiary education KU Leuven
The reversal of the gender balance in higher education
A major social development in the second half of the twentieth century has been the dramatic increase of participation in higher education, in particular among women. One important consequence of this development is that differences in the relative educational attainment of men and women have changed: in the past, men were typically more highly educated than women, while today women ...
Optimizing educational research in higher education (Ecuador) Ghent University
This seeds project aims at strengthening - in Ecuadorian universities and teacher training institutions - educational research as a base for the design and development of education. The project upgrades educational research expertise and practices in universities and teacher training institutes. The project brings together the available research experts and available good practices in Ecuador. A growing group of partners from the South will ...