Projects
Tissue-engineering protocols to accelerate angiogenesis in allogenic trachea transplantation. KU Leuven
Reconstruction of defects involving more than half of the length of the trachea is challenging. Techniques to close these lesions include the use of autologous, allogenic and synthetic tissues. The key aspects of treating long-segment tracheal lesions are not yet fully elucidated. Tissue engineering emerged as a promising field of research to create non-immunogenic scaffolds and aims to construct a functional substitutes for damaged tissues ...
Understanding teacher educators' scholarship. Biography, workplace and pedagogy. KU Leuven
Increasing teacher resilience in teaching children with behavioral problems: a focus on relationship-building skills KU Leuven
Teacher-student relationships are at the heart of education. Both teachers and students profit from positive, close relationships, yet suffer from negative, conflictual relationships. To date, only limited research has explored which specific competencies teachers need to build high-quality, dyadic relationships, how competent teachers feel in building these relationships, and how teacher education might improve this competence. This ...
Teacher educators’ competences to deal with diversity: A South African and Flemish study Ghent University
Targeting key challenges the young field of research on teacher educators is confronted with, this project focuses on advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge on teacher educators’ competences to deal with diversity. First, this project combines two theoretical perspectives in an integrated conceptual framework to enhance understanding on teacher educators’ competences to deal with diversity: (1) the theoretical framework on teacher ...
Teacher induction: Professional development through engaging with networks. KU Leuven
The induction phase - encompassing the transition from teacher education to the professional practice and the first years in the job - is one of the most challenging career phases for teachers. Many teachers experience this phase as problematic and even decide to leave the teaching job within the first years. This research project argues that the persistence of this problem is at least partly due to the way it has been framed conceptually and ...
Teacher induction: Professional development through engaging with networks Ghent University
The induction phase - encompassing the transition from teacher education to the professional practice and the first years in the job - is one of the most challenging career phases for teachers. Many teachers experience this phase as problematic and even decide to leave the teaching job within the first years. This research project argues that the persistence of this problem is at least partly due to the way it has been framed conceptually and ...
The role of teacher behavior and the quality of teacher-child relationships for the adjustment of children with attachment problems. KU Leuven
In the picture! Dialogic picture book reading in the domain of early mathematics: picture book characteristics, teacher competence and effectiveness. KU Leuven
Cumulative evidence points to the effectiveness of picture books for young children’s language acquisition, as they offer ample opportunities to engage in dialogic reading activities with an expert adult. Dialogic reading of picture books was recently also identified as a promising activity for enhancing young children’s mathematical development. However, current insights into the complex interplay between the characteristics of the picture ...
Normative and intentional development of teacher social-emotional skills and their relationships with student achievement and socialemotional skills. Ghent University
Teachers have been ascribed a central role in students’ learning and development. Especially how
teachers relate to their students was proposed as a key factor explaining learning effects and
teacher effectiveness. However, recent meta-analytic research suggests that teachers’ self-efficacy
and personality traits show only small associations with student academic performance.
Today’s thinking in education further ...