Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCE) have become fully-fledged research domains over the past decades. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Djapo plays a unique role in these domains.
Below you find an overview of some of our research projects. If you like to know more about our methods, projects and teaching materials, contact colleague Sabine Anné.
Education is an essential factor in stimulating global citizenship. However, it is not always easy to reach teachers from special education. That’s why in 2024 - with the support of the province of West Flanders - we started Buitengewone wereldburgers (Extraordinary global citizens): a pilot project in which we want to stimulate teachers of special primary education (focus: autism spectrum) in West Flanders to get started with Global Citizenship Education.
How do you make pupils in primary and secondary education curious about science? The European project COSMOS believes that opportunities grow when you integrate relevant societal issues into science education.
As a teacher or school board member, how do you stay focused on what really matters? How do you get more meaning out of your personal and professional life? The European project LIFE sets out with teachers and school boards in search of answers.
"Sustainability issues have unique pedagogical potential"
Centre for Sustainable Development UGent
How do you engage elementary school pupils in sustainability issues? And how do you structurally anchor this approach as part of GCE in teacher education? Together with the preschool and primary education teacher training programmes at Vives and Howest, Djapo searched answers.
How to create a quality ESD learning environment in a blended learning context? Djapo explored the question with four European partners in the Erasmus+ project Digital Destiny.
Djapo participated in 'Global education for teacher educators through international Lesson Study', a project that aims to develop teacher educators' global citizenship competences through the Lesson Study methodology.
