Department: Department of History
Anthe Baele
Anthe Baele is a historian and FWO doctoral student at the Department of History at Ghent University. After obtaining a master’s degree in History at Ghent University, she completed an International Advanced Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the role of history in relation to the metaphorical ‘other’, with particular attention to the reception of historical cultures. Integration courses form the central field of research. Her current project compares the role of history in integration policy in Flanders and the Netherlands. Specifically, she investigates both the historical development of integration policy in both countries and its practice through participatory observations in integration courses. In this way, she studies how the policy takes shape in the classroom and how both teachers and newcomers relate to the historical content offered.
Naïma Lafrarchi
Naïma Lafrarchi holds a law degree, Master of Science in Instructional and Educational Science, and a Master in Educational Science specialisation ‘Curriculum Development and Innovation’. Lafrarchi also worked at the Knowledge Centre of the Higher Institute for Family Sciences of Odisee University College (Brussels) as a project supervisor and were she conducted research regarding religious ideals of Flemish Muslim parents and Muslim youngers in Belgium/Flanders (Odisee). She is a former lecturer in the Master’s programme in Islamic Theology and Religious Studies (KU Leuven). Her first book ‘Does religion makes a difference?’ is launched in 2017 in presence of the Minister of Education, Hilde Crevits, as well as national and international experts. Currently, she is working on a research project which aims to develop a didactical-pedagogical tool to support history teachers in Flemish secondary education to deal with controversial and historical sensitive topics.
