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Students, history teachers and the national past. Research into students' and history teachers' representation of and beliefs about the national past: an exploration regarding context, methodology and strategy. KU Leuven

Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse
History Research Unit, Leuven, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Instructional Psychology and Technology, Cultural History since 1750, Leuven
Shared knowledge of the past is considered to be important by Western governments since early 19th century. That shared knowledge is meant to serve citizenship and social cohesion (national unity through national identity). History education is thereby considered as an important vehicle. This research project has three main aims: 1) Content-related aim: what are the reference knowledge, basic narratives and beliefs on national history among ...

Beliefs and practices of prospective history teachers on the relationship between past and present in history education. KU Leuven

Katelijne Wils
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven, Instructional Psychology and Technology
Contemporary Western European societies hold differing and partially conflicting expectations towards history education. History education is considered as an autonomous introduction into culture, as a contribution to the formation of critical and democratic cosmopolitans and as an introduction into the scientific discipline of history. Behind these views there are not only differring expectations towards the education in general, but also ...

The organ history of the premonstratensian abbey of Averbode ca. 1434-2001. Six centuries of organ building art in Brabant. KU Leuven

David Burn
Musicology, Leuven

In the musicology of the Netherlands, the history of organ construction has its own place. For the Southern Netherlands, the organ history of the abbey of Averbode is particulary interesting. The size of the preserved old documents or the archive pieces go back to the fifteenth century. Other churches or abbeys also have valuable information, but it is often fragmented. Not only the size of the archives is important, but also the continuity. ...

Tracing Bruegel. An interdisciplinary Approach to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Draughtmanship and the Production and Edition History of His Prints KU Leuven

Godelieve Watteeuw
Research Unit of History of Church and Theology, Art History, Leuven

The importance of the study of technique, materiality and working methods in art historical research has become fully acknowledged in the last decades. New technical developments offer new possibilities for scholars today. The FINGERPRINT project is developing new tools to assess graphic media and is testing its efforts on the casus of the graphic work (prints and drawings) of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

FINGERPRINT is an ...

Subaltern history as political culture: campesinos in Montes de María, 1960-2010 KU Leuven

Maria Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven

This research project seeks to improve our understanding of political engagement among Latin American peasants, building upon a case study on Montes de María (Colombia), 1960-2010. Social mobilisation by people with few chances of political representativeness has been a prominent research subject, not the least for the fields of social history, Latin America studies and peasant studies. In fact, the relevance of the case will be revised from ...

End of term tests in history as an access to the study of teaching practices. A methodological survey and two case studies. KU Leuven

Katelijne Wils
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, History Research Unit, Leuven, Instructional Psychology and Technology
This research project pursues two objectives. It wants to collect written 11th and 12th grade end of term tests in history in a systematic way, and make these available for further educational research by the Specific Teacher Training in History K.U.Leuven in collaboration with other partners (e.g. Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology, K.U. Leuven). Up to now, written end of term tests are practically never used as a starting point ...

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 Second Paraclete Saying in the Patristic Writings: A Study in the History of Exegesis KU Leuven

Christina Maria Kreinecker
Research Unit of Biblical Studies

In the field of Biblical studies, there is an increasing interest in the reception history of the Bible. Concerning the Gospel of John, much of the current research in reception history is done with respect to the history of the transmission of the Biblical text and to issues of canonicity and authority in the early second century. However, the research done so far did not pay enough attention to the meaning that the Biblical text receives in ...

‘The rosy gloom of battle overhead’, An artistic research into the atmospheric layers of history KU Leuven

Johan Tollebeek
Associated Faculty of the Arts, Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses, Cultural History since 1750, Leuven

‘The rosy gloom of battle overhead’ An artistic research into the atmospheric layers of history

The purpose of the proposed research is to explore the actions and procedures that are fundamental to my work as a visual artist. This artistic praxis is inspired by the historical method that I learnt as a history student at university, but gradually distinguished itself by creating space for intuition and attention to the image. The ...