Projects
Educational Common Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities Ghent University
The educational commons concept relies on the idea of sharing space for collaboration, content creation, socialisation, governance, playing, and studying. The EU-funded SMOOTH project will focus on active social inclusion and examine if the educational commons can operate as a catalyst to inverse inequalities in education. The project proposes an innovative action research programme engaging children and youth to reverse inequalities that ...
Social and ethnic inequalities in intergenerational social mobility: the role of the educational macro context. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
widening across the Western world. Simultaneously, mass-education
transformed societies in “schooled societies”, where educational
systems became central institutions with a primary role in cultural
beliefs, social stratification and mobility. However, comparative
research into intergenerational social mobility has been restricted to
an ...
Social and ethnic inequalities in Flemish education: lessons from comparative international research. KU Leuven
Epidemics and inequalities in Belgium from the plague to COVID-19: what can we learn about societal resilience? (EPIBEL) University of Antwerp
Social inequalities in cancer prevention care and fundamental social causes: a comparative study of innovative technologies and (in) effective policies. Ghent University
Persistent inequalities in preventive care use are observed within and across European countries, even in comprehensive welfare states. To explain the variance in and the persistence of these health inequalities, we turn to fundamental cause and diffusion of innovations theory to formulate baseline hypotheses on educational inequalities in cancer prevention use, across time and across European countries. Social inequalities have a modest ...
The social distribution of cancer in Belgium. Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality around the turn of the century. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Alternative pathways towards educational success? A qualitative-ethnographic approach to educational initiatives undertaken by socially vulnerable communities in Flanders University of Antwerp
Educational pathways in systems around the world. A cross-national study into the contextual determinants of social reproduction. Ghent University
The objective is to study cross-national differences in social reproduction through education. The aims are to determine the role of educational system arrangements in inequality, to understand how system-level effects on inequality are mediated by student and teacher behaviors, attitudes, and cultures, and to study whether cross-national differences in post-secondary pathways are due to secondary education structures and processes.
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Quality and equity of educational systems worldwide: trends over time and determining factors KU Leuven
Education has an essential role in societies, showing both individual as well as social benefits. Therefore, countries worldwide aim for quality and equity of their educational system(s). In this dissertation, we mapped trends over time of educational systems’ quality and equity and explored some possibly determining (classroom) factors. Because there is no consensus on the definitions and on appropriate indicators of quality and equity, both ...