Projects
Framework for curriculum exchange in aquaculture education with Southern Africa Ghent University
The project contributes to the strategy of internationalisation in education and the empowerment of Southern partners for local capacity building endorsed by VLIR-UOS, Ghent University and Stellenbosch University. Its objective is to explore and validate a framework for educational exchange among its partners in a stepwise approach. This project will lay the foundation for further development of joint curricula & joint degrees in ...
Curriculum renewal and support for teacher teams (CuSTm): policy framework, support methodology and educational sabbaticals Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(2) a guided support trajectory aimed at courses and (3) capacity creation of individual teachers to realise the (re)designing the curriculum (educational sabbaticals).
The role of competences for sustainable development in higher education: implications for curriculum, research competences and policy development. University of Antwerp
Curriculum & Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European Early Childhood Education and Care. KU Leuven
In line with the EU strategies for 2020 and the need for a systemic and integrated approach to Early Childhood education and Care (ECEC), the project identifies eight key issues and questions for which effective policy measures and instruments should be developed. They concern assessing the impact of ECEC, optimizing quality and curricula for ECEC to increase effectiveness, raising the professional competencies of staff, monitoring and ...
KA220 European Curriculum for Safety Officers MRI Odisee vzw
Assessment of Curriculum Development as tool in eradicating STEM Gender difference in Rwanda. KU Leuven
Beauvoir (1949) influential book entitled “The Second Sex (1949)”, claimed that women have been defined by men, and if they try to break away from this, they run the risk of alienating themselves. Fifty on years after, Connelly and Barriteau, (2000) argued that the solution stands in the adoption of feminist approaches to knowledge-building that are based on women's lived experiences and informal theorizing. From this scientific orientation, ...
Development of a proficiency-based stepwise training curriculum for chest drainage. Ghent University
The aim of this research project is the development of a chest drainage training curriculum for surgical trainees. This is a stepwise proficiency-based curriculum during which participants will train on several training models. After being proficient, competence of participants will be assessed in patients. The purpose is to demonstrate that this curriculum improves patient safety.
The hidden curriculum of open education KU Leuven
Sabbatical Lies Sercu: Health literacy in secondary education: building an evidence-base for curriculum development KU Leuven
Two years ago I started the research line 'health literacy in secondary education'. The line of research responds to the social demand for increasing the health literacy of the Belgian population, which is currently too low. A large part of the population appears to be insufficiently able to find, understand and apply health information, with a view to maintaining good health. As a linguist, didactician and trained therapist, I am in an ...