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The sound of educational reform: Disability, special education and the history of reform pedagogy from 1880 till 1940 KU Leuven

Pieter Verstraete
History of Education
Around 1900, the educational landscape in the West was partly characterized by various international movements that advocated a radical reform of contemporary schools and teaching practices. The existing research into the history of these reform pedagogical movements has not yet paid any attention to the impact of these ideas on special education. In this project we will investigate the way in which the international reform pedagogical movement ...

Sounds, senses and the materiality of schooling: An acoustic history of special education in Belgium, 1824-1940 KU Leuven

Pieter Verstraete
History of Education
In this project the history of Belgian special education will be acoustically examined. This is an important but overlooked perspective because sounds do play an important role in the construction of difference. The project in particular will examine how the interactions between sounds, senses and the materialities of schooling contributed to the emergence and development of educational initiatives for persons with visual, auditory and ...

Historical thinking about migration history in secondary education: examination of its disciplinary and civic potential and of Flemish teachers’ opinions KU Leuven

Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse
History Research Unit, Leuven
As history education always is ascribed civic goals, several scholars have put historical thinking (HT) to the fore as the main aim for history education, since the 1980s. They believe that HT can at the same time contribute to a better understanding of history and to young people’s civic attitude development. Several questions arise around this claim, for it is not clear (1) how history teachers perceive the concept and implementation of HT; ...

The (un)told Mission History of the Sisters of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (jmj) in India: A History of Identity Formation of Missionary Generations Shifting between Dutch Legacy and Indian Inculturation (1904 – 1969) KU Leuven

Dries Bosschaert
Research Unit of History of Church and Theology
Since their arrival in India in 1904 the JMJ missionary sisters have continuously advocated for the advancement of young girls and women through education, health care and self-sustainable programs, assisting them in constructing their identities in Andhra Pradesh, India. As with other women in the history of church and theology, their role is, however, often overlooked. This research focusing on the historical identity formation of the JMJ ...

Citizenship education in times of changing and innovation in Flemish education and global uncertainty: theory and practice – Historical Empathy as pedagogical-didactical tool for controversial and historical sensitive topics Ghent University

Christophe Verbruggen, Bruno De Wever
Department of History

The Flemish super divers society, as a diaspora mosaic and the successive migration flows are

mirrored in the class rooms. Diversity in education, more specifically in history classes, challenges the

‘Eurocentric’ historiographical approach of the Grand Narratives. This educational research within the

EduMa in History aims to ...

Thinking about Religious Education as 'Pag-alalay': A postcolonial, empirical and theological study into the theory and practice of Catholic religious education in the Philippines KU Leuven

Annemie Dillen
Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology

For contexts like the Philippines, where the majority of the people are religious and where the Catholic religion has been entangled with a history of oppression of peoples, the challenge for religious education is to reimagine both the content and methodology of religious education. Thereby it is important that it promotes inclusive care and just relations inside and outside the classroom. In dialogue with postcolonial theory, practical ...

An integrative framework for history teachers' adoption of inquirybased learning: Explaining current adoption and mapping short- and long-term effects of training offering extended support during implementation Ghent University

Bram De Wever
Department of Educational Studies

Inquiry-based learning is an instructional approach that provides students with authentic problems, and the materials necessary for drawing their own conclusions. According to educational research, inquiry-based learning is one of the most promising approaches to teaching history, as it contributes to an understanding of the content, as well as the ability to reason with historical information. Unfortunately, history lessons are often ...

A relationship of reciprocity? The changing position of teaching and research wiithin the nineteenth-century history professorship. KU Leuven

Kaat Wils
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, Cultural History since 1750, Kulak Kortrijk Campus
Studies in the research activities of nineteenth-century history professors have greatly multiplied in recent years. There has been shown that those activities were stimulated by the creation of a solid job market for historians, the formation of academic communities, the rise of archives, and the many professional and friendly relations between historians world-wide. However, there has been relatively little analysis of the part history ...

How to (re)write the past: thinking about history in American avant-garde poetry Ghent University

Marysa Demoor
Department of Literary Studies, Department of English

This postdoc. project investigates how American avant-garde poets (William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Susan Howe) have thought about the nature and the representation of the past. ItU+2019s a commonplace that twentieth-century American historians, in contrast to their European colleagues, have devoted litte attention to the idea of history. This project traces an American meta-historical debate in the work of three U+2018poet ...

Sabbatical Steven Van Hecke: co-editorship Cambridge History of the European Union + various other publication projects. KU Leuven

Steven Van Hecke
Public Governance Institute

The sabbatical period primarily serves to fulfill my duties as co-editor of Cambridge History of the European Union (CUP, 2021), together with colleague Mathieu Segers (Maastricht University): an ambitious publication project consisting of 2 volumes and approximately 40 chapters . In addition, I will use this education-free period to successfully complete existing publication projects, including the planned monograph on European political ...