Projects
A concise lexicon for a pedagogical emancipation in contemporary art. Towards a different view of audience participation in the light of the 'educational turn'. KU Leuven
Our study takes the lack of a sufficient emancipatory vocabulary within the 'educational turn' as a starting point. It investigates the possibility of a pedagogical emancipation in the light of this discussion and proposes a lexicon to discuss it critically. The ‘educational turn’ refers to a recent dynamic of conversations and practices concerning an educational dimension of contemporary art. Discursive and participatory strategies are seen ...
Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level. Ghent University
This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at ...
School Emancipation KU Leuven
This research project focus on the specificity of school learning. This particular form of learning relies on the conditions of grammatization and pedagogical freedom and equality. The ambition is to study school learning (theoretically and empirically) in order to identify its emancipatory potential and to find out whether it is possible to imagine a different future for school learning.
A study of the effects of the Ladakhi nuns' emancipation movement on the position of Buddhist nuns of the Indian Himalayan Leh Region of Ladakh. KU Leuven
This doctoral research intends to explore how the Ladakhi Buddhist nuns' emancipation movement –launched in 1995 by a group of non-local and local nonconformist monastics– has changed the traditional subservient status of nuns from the Himalayan and predominantly Tibetan Buddhist Leh region of the Union Territory of Ladakh in India. The goals of the study are threefold. First, it aims at exploring the factors that currently drive nun ...
Closing the gap a little ... Social emancipation through school life Ghent University
Closing the gap a little ... social emancipation be via school life Schools and classes in all respects increasingly diverse. The challenges to work gedifferenteerder are therefore increasing. In this project the aim is to get the critical success factors of effective and differentiated work efficiently after. In addition, it is intended to permanently anchor the insights gained from this project. Flemish Government - Ministry of Education
The Project of Property as Emancipation. A Community Land Trust in Brussels KU Leuven
On the background of growing privatisation of resources, of the incapacity of both private and public forms of arrangements to protect them, other forms of governing the resources and building welfare are emerging. This dissertation questions the emancipatory role of property under the current circumstances: under which conditions can property be emancipatory? My hypothesis is that the different ways of owning currently being experimented by ...
Male feminism: the participation of men in womenU+2019s emancipation movements in Belgium, France and the Netherlands (1960-1990). Ghent University
The present study aims to investigate if Belgian, French and Dutch feminist groups of the 1960s, 70s and 80s set up coalitions with men with regard to mobilization for the legalisation of abortion and contraception, the critique of power relations and labor divisions within marriage and the prevention of violence against women. Both oral and written sources will be used (interviews, archives, feminist press and literature).
Beyond Qualification: The Issue of Emancipation in the Pedagogy of Vocational Education and Training KU Leuven
General summary
International organizations have emphasized the importance of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in promoting skills and competences for the labour market. They have particularly stressed the importance of the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups on a worldwide scale. In line with this specific labour market orientation, little attention has been paid to the issue of emancipation in VET-practices.
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Cross-cultural comparative study of processes of emancipation of deaf communities in Sweden, Flanders and Cameroon Ghent University
This project tends to compare identity dynamics (see Pinxten, Verstraete & Longman, 2004) in different deaf
communities in an effort to provide a critical perspective on the cultural construction of the notions of deaf
culture and deaf identity currently being used in deaf studies. On a practical level, worldwide and especially in
developing countries, there is a strong need for deaf people to achieve their human, ...