Projects
Best practices of giftedness in schools Hasselt University
Nurturing cognitive talent: Understanding the role of classroom social experiences in high-ability students’ academic engagement KU Leuven
To secure a society’s innovative capacity, it is key to foster talents of all youth, including students with outstanding cognitive abilities. However, research suggests a loss of academic engagement among high-ability youth, increasing their risk for underachievement. Integrating giftedness models with general developmental and motivational models on student engagement, this project aims to shed light on the role of classroom social ...
Beyond prejudice: Examining the role of teachers in identity-based bullying in elementary schools KU Leuven
The PhD is part of a new interdisciplinary and interuniversity research project on prejudice, stereotypes and identity-based bullying in elementary school children, in collaboration with sociology and criminology researchers at the VUB and educational science researchers at the AP College. The doctoral researcher at KU Leuven will be in charge of the psychological component and focus on the role that teachers play in (the emergence and ...
Successfulintroduction of the cultivation of sweet potatoes in Flanders PCG-Vegetable Research Centre
subsidy dictionary Flemish dialects Dutch Language Union Ghent University
The resources of the Dutch Language Union can be given to the following activities: collection, processing and retrieval of dialect data dictionary; the substantive preparation of subsequent episodes in previously finished parts in accordance with the general classification (Agriculture - Nonfarm specialist vocabulary - GeneraI Vocabulary) and related subcategories; Among the governed content preparation described above also: organizing ...
Identification of genetic/genomic factors involved in giftedness. University of Antwerp
Person reference and interaction in Umpila/Kuuku Ya'u narrative KU Leuven
Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytellers of north-eastern Cape York Peninsula in Australia describe the way they tell most narratives as “we all talk one time”. This expression characterises a highly interactive mode of multi-party storytelling, where two or more narrators take turns or even co-produce turns to jointly tell a story. In this narrative style, storytellers prompt and prod each other, enthusiastically repeat or elaborate on each ...