Conceptions on how history should be taught in secondary education have changed profoundly in recent years. Teachers should now focus on the development of pupils' historical thinking, in contrast to ...read more
This research brings for the first time a critical historical analysis of one of the largest national military museums in the world, the Royal Military Museum in Brussels. With a ...read more
The research deals with the institutional and aesthetic processes of transformation of East German theatre from the collapse of socialism in 1989 to the turn of the millennium. 1989 posed ...read more
The proposed research aims to historicize the concept of sites of memory as places where the memory of a specific historical event (or a set of events) is anchored. This ...read more
The research focuses on emotional expressions of juvenile delinquents in state reformatories between 1890 and 1965. Using discourse analysis of ego-documents, a synchronic in-depth analysis investigates how the minors navigated ...read more
The aim of STREAM is to develop a research infrastructure for early modern Flanders and Brabant (c. 1550-1800). STREAM is designed to protect and facilitate access to a multitude of ...read more
This research project aims to respond to the knowledge gap on contextual diversity in transitional justice on the one hand and the lack of empirical studies on the nature and ...read more
My project deals with the economic activities of women in the countryside of coastal Flanders, between c. 1275 and c. 1575. Recently, scholars in economic history have focused on ...read more
Cohesion in learner writing is a promising area of investigation both from a pedagogical and atheoretical point of view. The proposed project aims to close the gap in literature about ...read more