Marloes Vrolijk
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
ESR 2
Noel Clycq (supervisor), Gert Biesta (co-supervisor)
In 2015, after completing interdisciplinary studies in the sociology of law and education, I started working as a secondary school teacher. Over the past years, I taught courses such as social sciences, global politics, and theory of knowledge, while living at various small-scale residential schools. Being a member of these communities made me interested in how students and teachers can build community, navigate their similarities and differences, personally and academically, and how power dynamics and inequalities are (or are not) critically examined and handled. As one of the 15 SOLiDi early-stage researchers, I get the chance to study related questions in the context of urban secondary schools in Flanders.
The following datasets are gathered to answer the research questions: "How are citizenship and diversity enacted in an urban secondary school in Flanders, and when and why do difficulties and opportunities arise?”:
Pseudonymised transcriptions of interviews with students, teachers and directors
Anonymised classroom observation notes
Fieldnotes
Key insights from the datasets will be publicly available through the publication and defence of the doctoral thesis (planned for September 2025). Other interested researchers can contact Marloes Vrolijk (marloes.vrolijk@uantwerpen.be) or prof. Noel Clycq (noel.clycq@uantwerpen.be) for access to data that can be shared after the current research project has been completed.