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Can Alternative Education Increase Children's Early School Engagement? A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Third Grade
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de Bilde, Jerissa; Van Damme, Jan; Lamote, Carl; De Fraine, Bieke – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
The current study examines the impact of alternative education on children's early school engagement in terms of school enjoyment and independent participation. A sample of 2,776 children from traditional (e.g., mainstream) and alternative (Freinet and Waldorf) Flemish schools was followed from their 3rd year of kindergarten until 3rd grade. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nontraditional Education, Traditional Schools, Language Skills
The Role of Environmental Factors in Beginning Teachers' Professional Learning Related to Differentiated Instruction
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De Neve, Debbie; Devos, Geert – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Little research has investigated factors that facilitate beginning teachers' participation in professional learning activities related to differentiated instruction (DI). This study examines environmental factors for DI learning activities in a sample of 272 beginning teachers from 72 primary schools. Multilevel analyses show that teacher…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction
The Rise and Decline of Comprehensive Education: Key Factors in the History of Reformed Secondary Education in Belgium, 1969-1989
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Henkens, Bregt – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2004
In answer to economic needs and social demands, a structural innovation was introduced in secondary education in most West European countries, mainly in the 1960s. Contrary to the traditional schools, organized in vertical categories, the so-called comprehensive schools brought together all branches in one school. There was protest against this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Traditional Schools, Secondary Education, Private Schools
Empirical Evaluation of Educational Innovations in Belgian High Schools.
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Brutsaert, H.; Cooreman, G. – Urban Education, 1979
Analyzes the effects of mandated innovations (away from the traditional purely academic curriculum) in Belgian high schools on the rate of educational democratization and on student study commitment. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Status Comparison, General Education
Freiluftschulen: Eine Historisch-Padagogische Randerscheinung als Reflex Sozial-Historischer Modernisierungsprozesse? Das Beispiel Belgiens (Open-Air Schools: A Marginal Appearance in Pedagogical History as a Reflection of Socio-Historical Processes of Modernization? The Example of Belgium).
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Depaepe, Marc; Simon, Frank – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2003
Discusses the history of open-air schools using an evaluation of Belgian schools. Expounds on the complex relationship between educational space and the educational act, and between traditional and progressive education. Demonstrates that open-air schools provided the same education as traditional schools and were not a real alternative for…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Schools