Margot Joris

Margot Joris is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Brussels Research Centre for Innovation in Learning and Diversity (BILD) at the Department of Educational Sciences at VUB. She holds a MSc in Social and Cultural Pedagogy (Leuven, 2014) and a PhD in Educational Sciences (Leuven, 2022). Her research mainly focuses on educational governance, educational theory and pedagogical (school) relations and societal responsibilities of schools, primarily in the field of (formal) citizenship education. She has also (co-)developed and conducted a research project on the educational concept and value of Bildung in secondary vocational education in the Netherlands (Utrecht, 2021-2023).

Research expertise: citizenship education, educational theory and philosophy, educational policy

Research methodology: qualitative research, (critical) content analysis, classroom ethnography, participatory methods