The 2010 "Klasse" Award

The editors of the monthly magazine Klasse (Magazine for Education in Flanders) agrees with the Flemish Dissertation Award that exceptional dissertations deserve more attention. The magazine offers the winner a beautiful prize, worth 500 euros. The winning dissertation will also receive editorial attention in the magazine.

Dissertations discussing a subject related to education have the chance to receive double the amount of attention. This could be dissertations linked to pedagogics, applied social studies or didactics. The subject can of course be broader, e.g. dissertations in the field of sociology, social sciences or psychology.

The deadline for entering the dissertations is 11 October. The regulations and registration form can be found on the website of the Flemish Dissertation Award.

Criteria Klasseprijs

Criteria for the content of the dissertation (niet cumulatief):

• the subject can be linked to education in the restricted sense (pedagogics, applied social studies(agogie), didactics), e.g. bullying at school, the introduction of new teaching methods in class, how to deal with highly intelligent children, evaluating language proficiency,... ;
• the subject can be linked to education in the broad sense (sociology, social sciences, psychology), e.g. lifelong learning, leisure of young people, reading behaviour among teenagers, difficulties of parenting in new family forms, the influence of sports on school results,...;
• the dissertation covers field research relating to education, social, psychological or sociological studies, among parents, teachers, pupils, teenagers. 
• the dissertation helps creating a better insight and/or practice when it comes to the participation of teachers, pupils, parents; the prevention of problematic  behaviour and or active citizenship when it comes to education and teaching.

Criteria for the form of the article:

• the article transforms the scientific dissertation into a text which is accessible for a broad audience, possibly consisting of teachers, parents, children en teenagers.