Projects
Beyond Qualification: The Issue of Emancipation in the Pedagogy of Vocational Education and Training KU Leuven
General summary
International organizations have emphasized the importance of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in promoting skills and competences for the labour market. They have particularly stressed the importance of the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups on a worldwide scale. In line with this specific labour market orientation, little attention has been paid to the issue of emancipation in VET-practices.
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Ethiopian EFL teachers’ beliefs and practice in grammar teaching: From an analysis of culturally grounded belief systems and epistemologies to recommendations for a linguistically informed pedagogy Ghent University
This project focuses on EFL in Ethiopian secondary schools, where English is the medium of instruction. It offers: (1) an analysis of teachers’ beliefs and practices with regard to grammar teaching; (2) recommendations for an adapted pedagogy, which starts from existing teachers’ beliefs and is founded in a functional linguistic theory in which ‘meaningful grammar’ plays a central role.
The sound of educational reform: Disability, special education and the history of reform pedagogy from 1880 till 1940 KU Leuven
School platformization: An ethnographic inquiry into policy, pedagogy, and practice KU Leuven
The purpose of this research project is to develop an empirical understanding of how platformization affects school education. Referred to as school platformization, this process emphasizes the localized and context-specific integration of digital platforms within schools, reshaping possibilities in school education and co-determining what is considered educationally relevant. School platformization signifies the increasing ...
Youth TikTok production as public pedagogy towards liveable climate futures KU Leuven
This youth-focused project will undertake both an analysis of youth social media productions (via the digital platform, TikTok), as well as a survey and interviews with youth in both Australia and Europe on their experiences and intentions regarding TikTok as a form of critical public pedagogy on climate change. The project will explore key narratives, anticipated audiences, and other aspects of whether and how youth intend for their TikTok ...
Studio Art Practice As Post-anthropocentric Pedagogy KU Leuven
This project will approach studio-based art practice as post-anthropocentric pedagogical framework that is constituted by a conglomerate of human and non-human entities as entangled co-operators and co-creators. The notion of post-anthropocentric pedagogy relates to the inherent knowledge production and new learning practices that are being produced through such immanent entanglements which are not solely human. My aim is to engage with these ...
A a Body of Knowledge. Towards a pedagogy of the guiding lines of Jan Fabre for training performers. University of Antwerp
Solidarity is made from moment to moment: Practices of a labour pedagogy in and through youth work KU Leuven
There has been an ever-increasing crisis in which vocational education and training (VET) finds itself, both in Flanders and internationally. On one hand, the importance of VET for both the economy and (technological) innovation is emphasized in public discourses. On the other hand, in the eyes of the average Flemish individual VET is not an attractive educational prospect and more and more youths do not seem interested in the kind of labour ...