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What meaning of citizenship in global citizenship education?
Although there has traditionally been a strong entanglement of citizenship with the national community, today this is no longer the only frame of reference for citizenship education at school. But in a legal sense, citizenship often remains based …
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Towards decolonized global citizenship education
To achieve decolonized global citizenship education (WBE), we need to rethink our practices from a decolonial perspective: How do we look at other ways of living, society building, engagement, peace, justice or sustainability? How can we, in a …
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Evaluating global citizenship competencies
Global Citizenship Education (WBE) aims to stimulate global awareness and critical citizenship by focusing on competencies such as critical thinking, empathy, solidarity, respect for diversity, participation and debate. Evaluating this poses a …
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Chicken or egg?: Towards strong language education in primary school
Language is a vicious vehicle. We need language to teach the subject matter at school
can understand and learn and refine that language at the same school.
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Implement inclusive education
What are the levers to support teachers towards more inclusive education?
Aster Van Mieghem wrote her dissertation about this. In the article you can read a concise summary of this.
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Big questions and inspiring citizenship
How can I make the world a better place? When am I sure my opinion is correct? How did my worldview change after the corona crisis? Why do people destroy statues of Leopold II?
Imagine that a student confronts you with one of these questions… …
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Promoting self-directed learning in education: does it really work?
Research shows that the efforts of teachers who work on self-directed learning in their students do have an effect. In this article on sustainable education.com, the authors discuss what self-directed learning is and where these positive effects …
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Ready for CLIL: Discussion book
This article offers a detailed discussion of the handbook Ready for CLIL:
Martens, Liesbeth & Van de Craen, Piet (ed.). Ready for CLIL. The CLIL handbook for Flanders and the Netherlands. Leuven / The Hague, Uitg. Acco, 2017, 240 pages.
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Education behind Belgian bars: Report international training week
From April 24th to April 28th 2017, the Flemish Support Center for Adult Education (Vocvo) hosts the international training week. Education behind Belgian bars for teachers, education coordinators and other interested stakeholders in prison …
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Learning from each other: EPALE ezine
The Flemish support center for adult education (Vocvo) organized an exchange day for adult education. This year the exchange day took place on Friday 12 May 2017.
EPALE spoke with a few people who gave a presentation last year or organized a …
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Learning in prison: EPALE e-zine
From 24 to 28 April 2017, the Flemish Support Center for Adult Education (Vocvo) organized an international training week under the title 'Education behind Belgian Bars'. Nineteen people from six countries took part. During the training …
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Guidelines for quality workplace learning
Workplace learning offers many advantages for all parties in the short and long term, at least if it is done in a high-quality way. This guideline is a tool for monitoring that quality. The concise brochure contains the most important points of …
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