Projects
A quantitative, longitudinal study of the development of and relationship between perceived racism, oppositional school cultures and educational outcomes and wellbeing for native Belgian and Turkish and Moroccan minority students Ghent University
This quantitative, longitudinal research project focuses on the one hand on the development of racism and anti-school cultures and on the other hand on the relationship between perceived racism, oppositional school cultures and educational outcomes and wellbeing for native Belgian and Turkish and Moroccan minority students.
Student teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge in the rational number domain. KU Leuven
Teaching Aristotle's Logic at Leuven University (1425-1797). Continuity and Innovation in the Student Notebooks and its European context. KU Leuven
A main and unique, yet entirely neglected source for an in-depth and comparative approach for studying the history of the teaching of Aristotle's logic at Leuven University during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period is the large collection of manuscripts containing notes taken by students during their lecture courses. These student notebooks, dating from 1425 up to 1789 and all written in Latin, represent an unparalleled source of ...
Coping with stigma: A goal-directed perspective on self-regulation in social identity-threatening work and education fields KU Leuven
This dissertation examined the underrepresentation of certain groups in work and education fields, focusing on women in male-dominated fields (the police force, the military, and STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] fields) and first-generation students at university. It has long been clear that this underrepresentation cannot be fully accounted for by inherent lower abilities or interest among these groups, and that ...
“Rinascimento Ritrovato”. The Renaissance Revival and the Universal Man in Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938) and His Time Ghent University
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along with material masterpieces, the Renaissance has left us an immaterial legacy, a concept, still dear to our hearts,that has shaped Western culture down the last two centuries: the ‘Universal Man’ [UM]. The UM, Leon Battista Alberti put it, is ‘a woman/man that can ...
Reflecting and resisting. Polish theatre and politics of memory since 2005 KU Leuven
This research argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by this struggle between those creating performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority. It interrogates the ways in which the artistic and political strategies that have been developed in the past two decades in the Polish theatre field can be theorized as queer artistic and political strategies. It will argue that this struggle ...
Education and sociocultural identification: Facilitating learning effects through congruence. KU Leuven
In most contemporary Western educational systems, sociocultural inequalities remain prominent. Nevertheless, the functionalist meritocratic perspective—which claims that by focusing on students’ own achievement, the educational system limits the privileges associated with ascription, such as wealth and family background—has further permeated the common sense in recent decades. This perspective has been severely criticized by interactionism ...
Should I stay or should I go? Explaining the role of students in the development of attrition-inducing attitudes among teachers in secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Ghent University
In Flemish secondary education, one in three starting teachers quits within five years. This indicates a profound dissatisfaction with teaching, often associated with increasing numbers of difficult-to-teach-students. Present research examines whether and how attrition-inducing attitudes associate with schools‘ student composition, considering students‘ culture. Uniquely, the research does not deal with teachers‘ perceptions of students, as ...