Projects
Educational Policy and commercial relations KU Leuven
Commercial actors play an important role in education, both in compulsory and higher education. What comes to mind here are publishers and companies that offer technical support, but also consultants and student or pupil support. The purpose of the doctoral research is to gain in-depth insight into the control that emanates from these local but also increasingly international commercial actors and relations, how this contributes to shaping ...
The expenditure of human resources for administrative, policy and educational support in primary and secondary schools Ghent University
The study analyzes the allocation policy of primary and secondary schools for the school resources related to policy support, administrative and pedagogical suppor. A survey and 30 case studies are used to analyze how the school resources are allocated for the school support, which factors influence this allocation and to which degree principals are satisfied with the clarity of the funding, the amount of resources and the freedom to allocate ...
Language policy as a motor for equal educational opportunities. KU Leuven
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).
Alpha Stimulation Policy: Sabbatical Fund for Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Ghent University
Faculty fund in support of research sabbaticals. A sabbatical leave has the objective to free a professor from any teaching and/or administrative duties in order to devote oneself exclusively to their scientific research. Each professor uses this time according to one’s own objectives.
The freedom of education. A study of pedagogical freedom and its impact on Flemish education policy. KU Leuven
This research project deals with the constitutional rights surrounding educational policy in Belgium and Flanders. It examines to what extent “pedagogical freedom” (“vrijheid van richting”), i.e. the freedom of schools and educators to determine the content of their education and the pedagogical method, as part of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of education limits public authorities when they regulate education.
Firstly, the ...
The scientificization of compulsory education in Belgium historically studied with a special focus on the role of experts in education policy. KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the scientificization of compulsory education in Belgium in the nineteenth and/or twentieth century. More specifically, this research focuses on the role of experts in educational policy development, with the aim of historically contextualizing and understanding the evolution towards a greater emphasis on evidence-based action in education.