Projects
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 ...
Emotional Acculturation in Minority Youth KU Leuven
If two people share an emotion , for example by being happy or angry for the same reasons, this means that they look at the world in a similar way. The more time couples and group members spend together, the more they tend to share the same emotions; moreover, emotional similarity in a couple or a group makes people happier. Preliminary research has suggested that a similar phenomenon happens to immigrants: As they spend more time in the new ...
Intergroup contact and resistance against ethnic minority groups: the role of acculturation orientations and intergroup emotions. KU Leuven
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as Gateways to Minority Inclusion KU Leuven
International migration has often been referred to as one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Numbers of immigrants have been increasing, but social integration of migrants and their children is lagging at the detriment of immigrant minorities themselves and often resulting in conflict within receiving societies. EmotionAcculturation investigates the role of emotions, as key processes of interaction, for immigrant minorities’ social ...
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as Gateways to Minority Inclusion KU Leuven
Emotions are key processes of social inclusion. Because emotions vary across cultures, immigrant minorities may be at a disadvantage in majority culture. The current grant builds on this idea that emotions be invisible gatekeepers that keep minorities out of majority cultural contexts. In the proposed studies we test the role of emotional acculturation --the changes in emotions resulting from immigrant minorities’ exposure to majority ...
Strategies for vocabulary development at the initial stages of academic aculturation. University of Antwerp
The Untold Mission History of the sisters of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (JMJ) in India: An Historical Study of Missionary Generations Shifting Between Dutch Legacy and Indian Inculturation (1904 – 1969) KU Leuven
The role of women religious has received less attention in the history of the church and theology. This is especially the case with missionary women and the native sisters, whose lived experiences are not analyzed and whose missionary challenges are not studied. This project will trace the journeys and experiences of the sisters of Jesus Mary Joseph (JMJ) from the Netherlands and Australia who traveled to India in 1904 and 1920 to serve as ...
The (un)told Mission History of the Sisters of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (jmj) in India: A History of Identity Formation of Missionary Generations Shifting between Dutch Legacy and Indian Inculturation (1904 – 1969) KU Leuven
Augustinian Pedagogy and its Relevance for the Augustinian Mission in Francophone Africa: Areas and Challenges of Inculturation for the 21st Century KU Leuven
This research project is intended as a quest for an African contextual theology of education inspired by Augustine, such that will portray contemporary relevance of Augustinian pedagogy. This notion of Augustinian pedagogy has at least two meanings: firstly it refers to a set of Augustinian thoughts on education, and secondly to a set of educational principles, essentially systematized in Augustinian circles based on the life, works, and ...