Ferre Laevers
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
21 Papers
71 Citations
Ferre Laevers is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Socioemotional selectivity theory & Student engagement. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications.
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Papers
The Gender Gap in Student Engagement: The Role of Teachers' Autonomy Support, Structure, and Involvement.
TL;DR: Although involvement and autonomy support partly explained the gender gap in engagement (mediation hypothesis), more support was found for differential effects of autonomy support on boys' versus girls' engagement (differential effects hypothesis).
Understanding children from 0 to 3 years of age and its implications for education. What's new on the babies' side? Origins and evolutions
Sylvie Rayna,Ferre Laevers +1 more
TL;DR: Our views on infancy and toddlerhood have greatly changed during recent decades, as already documented by previous reviews of ECEC literature (Plaisance and Rayna 1997; Rayna and Plaisance 1998).
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Gender related role patterns in preschool settings. Can ‘experiential education’ make a difference?
Ferre Laevers,Lieve Verboven +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of early childhood education in the emancipation process is discussed, comparing traditional and experiential education, and three questions are explored: is there a gender related pattern in choices of activities, do boys behave in other ways than girls and are they approached differently by teachers.
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Investigating the quality of project-based science and technology learning environments in elementary school: a critical review of instruments
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of instruments that have the potential to measure the quality of project-based science and technology (S&T) learning environments in elementary school is provided. But the most frequently evaluated components are prior knowledge and backgrounds, connection with reality, science as inquiry and level of initiative and group work.
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