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Teaching refugee children: Book
Announcement of guest lectures on trauma and culture sensitive teaching. Based on the new book Teaching Refugee Children by Hélène van Oudheusden
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VRHeight: Working safely at virtual height - HTC Vive Pro
Working safely at height is a very important basic competency to achieve for students in, among others, the construction or industrial sector.
VR Height is an interactive Virtual Reality training module for secondary education students that teaches …
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A Guide to Report Inappropriate Content on Social Media
The purpose of this guide is to provide students and educators with adequate information on what to do to report inappropriate or offensive content to administrators of a social media application.
The social media applications that will be discussed …
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Guide to Preventing Violent Extremism
UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education Program presents a first guide to help teachers work on the prevention of violent extremism. The guide helps teachers to create a classroom climate that is inclusive and fruitful for respectful dialogue, …
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Code Festival 2017: Presentations
In this contribution you will find the presentations of the Code Festival of October 16, 2017 in Brussels and of October 19, 2017 in Ghent . The Code Festival is an organization of the Department of Education and Training . The aim is to get as …
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Training the Scientific Thinking Circle in Pre- and Primary School Children
Using two experiments, the authors examined the extent to which the scientific thinking circle can be used as heuristics to support scientific thinking in a classroom of children between the ages of 3 and 9 years old. To do this, the authors asked …Article -
Are Fourth and Fifth Grade Children Better Scientists through Metacognitive Learning?
A way to find out how scientific thinking in children develops is to focus on the processes that are involved. As such, scientific thinking can be seen as a particular form of problem solving in which the problem solver selects a strategy from the …Article -
Primary school science: implementation of domain-general strategies into teaching didactics
In the present study we present a didactic method to help children aged 11 and 12 learn science in such a way as to enable a dynamic interaction between domain general strategies and the development of conceptual knowledge, whilst each type of …Article -
Using an online tool to support school-based ICT policy planning in primary education
An important step towards the successful integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools is to facilitate their capacity to develop a school-based ICT policy resulting in an ICT policy plan. Such a plan can be defined as a …Article -
A Critical Review of the Literature on School Dropout.
Dit dossier vat de groeiende literatuur naar voortijdig schoolverlaten (vsv) samen. Het verduidelijkt het probleem van vsv, en raakt de onderliggende problemen en methodologische tekortkomingen van eerder onderzoek aan. Het dossier bespreekt de …Article -
Multimedia in preschool: an additional opportunity towards equal opportunities in education
The objectives of this practice-based project are threefold. Firstly, it investigates how multimedia literacy of preschool children (3 to 5 year olds) can be stimulated. Secondly, it aims at understanding the influence of multimedia literacy on their …Article -
The impact of institutional context, education and labor market policies on early school leaving: a
This file describes a comparative analysis of the determinants of early school leaving (dropout) at the system level. We split the dropout rates in two parts: a "primary" part that unqualitfied measurement of initial education, and a second …Translated by
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