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"Educational quality, student welfare, teacher welfare: what do you focus on as a school?"
Four years ago, the Daltonatheneum Het Leerlabo in Westerlo was in crisis. "The previous management team had left, the teachers had no tools to deal with the rebellious youngsters," says pupils’ coordinator Nele Verdonck. Nele was new to the school team at the time, as was headmaster Hilde Raets. Together they started a search for more connection within the school team and more room for authenticity.
'Who am I, what can I do, what do I want'?
Besides qualification and socialisation, personality formation is an important function of education. Yet this search for one's own identity sometimes remains underexposed. Prof Katrien Van Poeck explains how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) offers opportunities for personality formation in the classroom.
Class discussions on controversial topics
How do you react when a controversial topic comes up in class? The trainee teachers from PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts attended a training by Djapo and received the necessary information to determine the role of the teacher in a polarised debate. Find out how the training proceeded.
"The Nobel Prize makes the concept of peace more comprehensible for students"
Thanks to the Flemish Peace Institute, three classes of third-grade secondary education each year help decide who the Peace Institute will nominate as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize that year. Djapo worked out a teaching bundle to prepare students for this.
"Children and young people are often more open to repair options"
How do you encourage consumers to deal more sustainably with broken electrical and electronic appliances? The partners of Interreg project Sharepair saw opportunities for this in education and asked Djapo to develop a teaching package for primary and secondary schools.
"Sustainability issues have a unique pedagogical potential"
Professor Dr Katrien Van Poeck (Centre for Sustainable Development UGent) talks about the pedagogical potential of Education for Sustainable Development and the pitfalls when sustainability issues are discussed in class.
COSMOS breaks down school walls
A school knocking on the police's door to enrich its STEM education? Antwerp secondary school Novaplus saw the benefit of it during their COSMOS project! Read more about their trajectory.
An opportunity to strengthen the educational system
At the end of 2022, Djapo released the theoretical framework 'The school as a place for practice'. With that framework, we determine what role ESD and GCE can play within education. Essential to this is that we no longer see ESD and GCE as separate areas of learning, but as an integral approach to strengthen our education.