Agency and structure in practices of educational innovation. A description and analysis of implementation practices in primary and secondary schools. KU Leuven
Firstly, the diversity in implementation practices ...
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 ...
The project aims to re-evaluate education in monastic contexts of 11th-12th century by relying on the concept of “community of practice” and thus stressing active social participation in the processing of knowledge, beliefs and attitudes. This will be achieved through a comparative analysis of the preserved monastic correspondence, which will address the contents, contexts and perception of the learning process.
Deficits in executive functions (EF) at a young age negatively impact school success and predict future behavioral problems. With EF being highly influenced by classroom quality, the focus on supporting EF in the preschool classroom has been on the rise. This specifically, in the context of supporting children from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Our project aims to research a classroom EF intervention in the Flemish early ...
Educational institutions face the recurring problem at the beginning of every semester to determine when classes and examinations take place. This is not an easy task as dozen of constraints and wishes need to be taken into account. So far the literature on timetabling algorithm design has almost exclusively focused on the short term: given input on requirements and wishes, how can we make the best possible timetable for the next coming ...
‟Lecturing‟ is a pedagogic practice that still seems to be at the heart of the university in various parts of the world. Today, it concerns physical as well as digital lectures. However, an educational understanding of the event of lecturing and the (dis)similarities between physical and digital lecturing is missing, and hence the reason why holding to the practice of lecturing, and even more its educational meaning, is unclear. Given the ...
When learning motor tasks across the lifespan, it is crucial to know which types of training lead to the best possible outcome. Learning and retention can be facilitated by presenting an optimal level of desirable difficulty during practice by means of manipulating practice structure, an effect called contextual interference (CI). CI is generally induced by using a randomized rather than blocked schedule for practicing different task ...
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 10 to 12 million people worldwide are without nationality, and are stateless. Stateless persons are among the most vulnerable human beings, as no State takes responsibility for them. Statelessness is a human rights issue, as stateless persons are often excluded from basic services, such as education and healthcare. The UN General Assembly has gradually expanded UNHCR’s ...