Publications
The Association Between Perceived Discriminatory Climate in School and Student Performance in Math and Reading: A Cross-National Analysis Using PISA 2018 KU Leuven
The negative consequences of perceived ethnic discrimination on adolescent adjustment are well documented. Less is known, however, about the consequences of discriminatory climates in school, beyond the individual experiences of discrimination. This study investigated whether a perceived discriminatory climate in school is associated with lower academic performance across adolescents from ethnic minority and majority groups, and which ...
Can family language policy predict linguistic, socio-emotional and cognitive child and family outcomes? A systematic review KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Extent and Predictors of Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Southwest China KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Diversity approaches matter in international classrooms: how a multicultural approach buffers against cultural misunderstandings and encourages inclusion and psychological safety KU Leuven
Students in higher education are increasingly part of international classrooms. While these classrooms have the potential to catalyze learning, they also come with lower senses of inclusion and psychological safety –factors that are crucial for learning. In the current study, we empirically test a contextual model in which these psychological costs are related to the number of cultural misunderstandings which are, in turn, associated with the ...
Diversity pedagogical content knowledge: a new conceptual framework and assessment across different teacher education programmes KU Leuven
Previous work on multicultural teaching competence has mainly focused on teachers’ beliefs and attitudes towards ethnocultural diversity. Little attention has been paid to examine the nature of teachers’ ethnocultural diversity knowledge. Drawing upon Shulman’s model of pedagogical content knowledge, this study presents a novel theoretical framework and a performance-based assessment for examining teachers’ ethnocultural diversity knowledge. We ...