Oliver Holz

• Doctor of Philosophy
• KU Leuven

Every day educators are presented with insights, questions, and encounters which reveal how students engage in learning, how new ideas can impact on student outcomes and how there can be a sense of puzzlement where rethinking of pedagogical approaches is critical for student success. In this volume, an international team of authors explores paradox...

Hinführung Das Ziel dieser Handreichung Diese Handreichung soll einen Einblick in das Mentoring internationaler Lehrkräfte geben. Es handelt sich dabei um Lehrkräfte, die in den letzten Jahren zugewandert sind und versuchen, in einem neuen Schulsystem zu arbeiten. Die Handreichung ist als Mentoring- und Willkommensleitfaden für Schulen konzipiert....

The purpose of this guide This guide aspires to present an insight into mentoring international teachers who have migrated in recent years and are trying to work in a new school system. The aim is to accompany the mentoring process with guidelines, resources and tools. The guide is designed as a mentoring and welcome guide. It can be used by mentor...

Discrimination against the LGBT+ community persists across Europe. Education is not immune to this: Young people across the continent continue to experience homophobic and transphobic behaviour in schools. This publication provides education practitioners and policy makers with historical perspectives, trends in educational practice, and reflection...

Given the expected advantages for individuals and societies, financial literacy is high on the policy agenda in many countries. This paper reports the results from a unique survey conducted on a sample of 13–16-year-old students in five European countries, aimed at measuring and comparing their level of financial literacy skills. The results indica...

Voices from the Classroom illustrates that teachers have a leading voice in the policies that impact their students and the profession of teaching. The aim is to provide a rich and broad view of the impact of inquiry in the classrooms, from primary to higher education, and to provide a window into the perspective of teachers. Voices from the Classr...

In this chapter we provide a comparative overview of the level of financial literacy of pupils and teachers across five European countries (Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Slovakia, and the Netherlands). This comparative study follows from the European KA2 strategic partnership ‘EUFin’. The partnership, explained in more detail in the introduction of this...

In a world where individuals become increasingly responsible for their financial well-being, and where the complexity of financial markets and products is growing, financial education becomes crucial. Although it is well accepted to introduce financial education in compulsory education, there is no consensus on the optimal way to implement financia...

Anno 2019, financial literacy education receives significant attention in the Flemish region of Belgium. 2 Both in primary education and in secondary education, the curricula mentions financial education aspects. This section reviews the financial literacy levels in Flanders, and the steps which have been taken to introduce financial literacy in th...

This paper captures the lessons learned from Homo’poly, an ERASMUS+ project on awareness and understanding of homosexuality in schools. Homo’poly was implemented between 2016 and 2019 in eight European countries: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and the United Kingdom. Throughout the project, partner institutions no...

Educational institutions should offer a safe and secure environment for young people. Part of that should be educational equity, which is a measure of achievement, fairness, and opportunity in education. This publication analyses and discusses educational equality from different angles. All contributions reflect on the current situation of 11 Europ...

This article offers the first large-scale comparative analysis of pupils’ and teachers’ perspectives on homosexuality using two waves (2013 and 2017) of self-collected data through questionnaires issued in eight European countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Turkey. Using these unique data, the authors exa...

This paper offers the first large-scale comparative analysis of pupils’ and teachers’ perspectives on homosexuality using two waves (2013 and 2017) of self-collected data through questionnaires issued in eight European countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Turkey. Using these unique data we examine to what...