Projects
Examining the Role of Advertising Literacy in How Young Children Cope with Online Data Collection Practices and Targeted Advertising Ghent University
This research project will use experimental research to investigate how children (7-12 years) cope with online data collection and the influence this has on the effectiveness of targeted advertising. In particular, the role of children’s knowledge and understanding of this advertising technique (cognitive advertising literacy) and perceived fairness (by means of a cost-benefit analysis) in this process will be examined.
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 ...
Unlocking newcomers’ literacy development: learning for life in formal, non-formal and informal spheres KU Leuven
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY STUDY (ICILS) 2023 IN FLANDERS - YEAR 2023 Ghent University
The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) is an international comparative study of student achievement in information literacy and digital skills. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) coordinates the study.
ICILS is administered in the second year of secondary education. A representative sample of students are given a test that tests computer and information literacy ...
A customized intervention approach to the formation of social media literacy KU Leuven
The rhetoric of cultural literacy Ghent University
The aim of this research project is to study how cultural literacy (i.e. the importance of knowledge about culture and the arts) is rhetorically constructed within contemporary cultural policy and practice. The project addresses questions about (1) the specific content of cultural literacy, about (2) the potential functions of cultural literacy and about (3) the specific role of cultural institutions.
eHealth Literacy, Health Information Seeking Behavior, Social Support and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Cross Sectional Study of COVID-19 Pandemic KU Leuven
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 ...