Projects
Finding common ground: living labs for linking conservation to rural community livelihood in the Western Usambara Mountains Tanzania (LiveLabLink) KU Leuven
This project aims at fighting rampant deforestation and land degradation in the Usambara mountains by improving the capacity of SEKOMU to do demand-driven research linking forest rehabilitation to improved livelihood strategies. For this purpose, the proposal aims to establish 5 ‘living labs’ on local school grounds, each comprising a common garden forestry experiment, a non-timber forest product pilot project and a mixed agricultural trial ...
Surrounded by conflict: exploring the measurement, origins, and consequences of conflict thinking among the public at large Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gilles Deleuze and Theology: A New Philosophical Mediation for a Western Liberation Theology? KU Leuven
The grammar of upbringing beyond the Western epistemologies: Registers of upbringing in Vietnam from 2000s to 2020s KU Leuven
In the last four decades, tremendous effort has gone into developing a scientifically grounded way of raising children, known as ‘parenting’, largely founded in developmental and neuro-psychology. Partly in response, an existential-pedagogical account of raising children has been developed, centred around the concept of ‘upbringing’. Despite their state-of-the-art nature in the field of child-raising, both accounts have been developed within ...
KUL - The fundamentals of matter: the influence of Proclus' philosophy of nature in Western thought Ghent University
On the same campus? Acculturation, discrimination and intergroup relations between Turkish and Belgian descent university students KU Leuven
Much research has been devoted to investigating the acculturation processes of the children of immigrants in Western Europe. One particular focus has been on the acculturation of children of Turkish immigrants, with a significant degree of scholarly attention paid to debates on integration and education. The present dissertation offers a contribution to this scholarly debate by analysing the acculturation experiences and perspectives of both ...
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching with Chinese Characteristics? A Multi-Method Study in Southwest China KU Leuven
The multiculturalism approach to cultural diversity has been increasingly valued as it aims to develop a society with positive attitudes towards cultural differences and promote equity across social groups. In line with this, the multicultural education field has been thriving in theory, research, and practices. The present dissertation with a focus on ethnic diversity, contributes to worldwide multicultural education idea, process, reform, ...
Shaping Social Commitment. Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and '80s KU Leuven
The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s?
To this aim, the notion of ‘architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ‘architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ...