Community Schools, extended Schools, full service schools: all these labels refer to schools that open up to the world and where collaboration between different partners, linked to the lives of ...read more
The MulAE-project evaluates whether monolingual testing practice can provide a complete picture of multilingual (ML) pupils’ abilities in content-related areas (e.g. science). In traditional tests, these pupils receive the test items ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
When it comes to L2 vocabulary learning, both semantic elaboration, i.e. the increased attention to word meaning, and structural elaboration, i.e. the enhanced attention to word form, are important. However, ...read more
Transbaso, an inter-university SBO research project, is an innovative valorization and research project for the Flemish education context. That school and study orientation processes are socially biased is well documented. ...read more
Immigrant children’s poor school results are often linked to their linguistic background. More traditional measurements which compare groups of non-native and native speakers pose serious limitations and result in too ...read more
The main objective of the Validiv project is to valorise existing linguistic diversity and the linguistic repertoires of pupils (e.g., English, French, immigrant languages) within educational processes in primary education ...read more
The 'Centre for diversity and learning' (CDL) (formerly Centre for Intercultural Education) is part of the MULTIPLES research group at Ghent University in Flanders, Belgium. The principal goal of the ...read more