Projects
Ancient Greeks - Young Heroes: ancient Greek language and mythology for primary school pupils growing up in multidimensional poverty Ghent University
The project Ancient Greeks - Young Heroes brings the Ancient Greek language and mythology to underprivileged children in primary school. UGent students annually teach Ancient Greek in East-Flemish primary schools, and teachers from all over Flanders also apply the teaching material in their own classes. This didactic material (available for free on our website) has been created based on pupil needs. Our research shows that not only does ...
Towards EURO 2012 with Polish and Ukrainian Language. Hasselt University
Educational platform Language, learning, innovation: Sustainable sharing of evidence-based learning material Ghent University
The research group Language, Learning, Innovation (LLI) has been purposefully focusing on evidence-based intervention research in authentic classroom contexts for many years. Numerous learning materials and professionalization initiatives have already been developed and evaluated. By organizing annual study days and demand-driven individual study courses, we have already focused on disseminating this knowledge and materials to optimize the ...
Effective CLIL education in Flanders. Profiles of schools and students, perceived effects and preconditions. University of Antwerp
Monitoring of author residencies University of Antwerp
A multilingual STEM approach VIVES
The visions of Hildegard van Bingen in the context of twelfth-century performative exegesis. Ghent University
This project examines the use of allegory in twelfth-century exegetic literature from monastic circles. The central text is Hildegard of Bingen’s visionary trilogy, which is linked to allegorical commentaries and parables. The project examines the hypothesis that this use of allegory is didactic and serves to dramatise the reader’s role in the text.