Monthly Archives: April 2018

Programma ‘“Discussiëren Kun Je Leren” werkt!

Het programma Discussiëren Kun Je Leren heeft een langdurig effect heeft op burgerschapsvaardigheden van basisschoolleerlingen. Dit blijkt uit een evaluatiestudie uitgevoerd door Dr. Tobias Stark van het European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations aan de Universiteit Utrecht (ERCOMER). Lees hier het volledige rapport. Kijk voor meer informatie over het programma ook op de…

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Seminar: Orhan Agirdag – Linguistic inequalities in education

Towards a better understanding of the multilayered reality of linguistic inequalities in education. While a growing number of European studies investigate educational inequalities across socioeconomic and migration background lines, less attention is given to linguistic group disparities. This is surprising as the achievement gap between language minority (LM) students and native-speaking (NS) students is at…

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Seminar: Vassilis Saroglou – Islamophobia: Common prejudice or value defense?

  Prejudice and discrimination may result from various reasons, among which symbolic threat is often present in subtle prejudice, in particular in terms of perceived value conflict between two groups. Anti-Muslim sentiments and behavior in the West are often justified by perceived incompatibility between Western/Christian/laicity’s values and non-Western/Muslim/pre-secular values. The former values are typically perceived…

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