P Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 34999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8481-5287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 401 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Teachers and white privilege attitudes
While considerable research has examined white privilege in educational settings, particularly in Great Britain and the United States, less attention has been paid to in-service teachers’ white privilege attitudes, especially in European contexts. This study addresses this gap by analyzing cross-sectional data from 536 teachers across 44 Belgian secondary schools, using multilevel modeling. First, it explores the correlation between teachers’ whi…
Invisible threads
As higher education (HE) systems become increasingly diverse, understanding the development of students’ sense of belonging (SoB) is crucial, particularly for ethnic-cultural minorities. Existing research on student belonging largely relies on cross-sectional designs, leaving a gap in understanding how belonging unfolds over time. This qualitative, longitudinal study examines how SoB develops dynamically over time within a relatively open-access …
Exploring the role of students’ ethnic-minority and socio-economic status in entering open-admissions higher education
This study contributes to research on higher education (HE) inequalities by exploring how ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) shape HE decision-making within the context of an open-admissions HE-system (Flanders), where formal barriers are minimal, in contrast to more selective HE-systems. Drawing on Bourdieu’s cultural reproduction theory, we conducted a Reflexive Thematic Analysis of qualitative interviews with 31 ethnic-cultural minority …
Sense of belonging defined
It became apparent that academic retention in higher education (HE) is influenced beyond academic factors alone. Given sense of belonging’s (SoB’s) relationship with educational and broader outcomes, researchers have shifted their attention to studying SoB’s role in explaining social inequities in HE. However, there is little research that describes how ethnic-cultural minority (ECM) students themselves define and experience SoB, which questions …
Catharine Anne Wilson. Being Neighbours
Unravelling classroom justice perceptions among Belgian-Moroccan students
The present study employs qualitative content analysis to investigate perceptions of classroom justice within the specific multicultural dynamics of teacher-student interactions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen parent-youth pairs of Belgian-Moroccan background, revealing that the three key dimensions of the classroom justice model—distributive, procedural and interactional justice—offer a useful framework for understanding…
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom
A growing amount of ethnically diverse students is bringing a multitude of different languages into the classroom. In Flanders, most schools respond to this reality by adopting a monolingual approach, where proficiency in Dutch is encouraged and the home language of students perceived as a barrier for learning, within this monolingual system. However recent studies have found that teachers will vary in their level of tolerance for linguistic dive…
Exploring teacher–parent relationships in times of Covid-19
Previous research shows that the lockdown of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic increased the already existing inequalities in education but little is known about the processes underlying these outcomes. In this study we used Bourdieu’s theories to explore how interactions between teachers’ expectations of parents and parents’ availability of cultural, social and economic capital could potentially influence educational inequalities in the conte…
Track prejudice in Belgian secondary schools
While considerable research in education has established objective and subjective status differences between tracks and focused on the outcomes of ability grouping on students' educational and broader outcomes, there is virtually no research that explains students' variability in track valuation. This study relies on theoretical insights from social psychology, ethnic studies and school effects research to develop hypotheses about the influence o…
Trying to write a story together”
It highlights the importance of shared decision-making, critical consciousness, cultural desire and empathy. Understanding these nuances is essential for enhancing culturally sensitive care and mitigating healthcare disparities
Intercultural actions speak louder than words
Teachers in ethnically diverse environments face increasingly complex demands. Intercultural competences can support teachers in navigating such contexts, but little is known about how teachers utilize these competences in practice. This study interviewed 48 teachers across four Flemish secondary schools, selected based on their diversity policies. We explored how teachers apply culturally relevant practices on a day-to-day basis and how they ali…
Making Muskoka
Reviewed by: Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 by Andrew Watson Peter A. Stevens Watson, Andrew – Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022. 280 p. Tourism history tends to privilege the activities and perspectives of travellers and promoters, with the experiences of local populations going unexamined. No such criticisms can be made of Andrew Watson's ne…
Teachers’ responses to ethnic discrimination
While most research has focussed on the experiences and consequences of ethnic discrimination for students, little is known about how teachers respond to ethnic discrimination. Teachers’ responses are important as they may affect the outcomes of ethnic discrimination for students. Additionally, many studies have shown that teachers find it difficult to respond or talk about these issues but we know very little about how they act or address these …
Students' Perception of Anti-Academic Norms in Flanders
Anti-academic norms have proven to affect the educational strategies of adolescents. The determinants related to the experience of anti-academic norms and especially its link to ethnic inequality within the educational system have not received sufficient attention in European educational research. Hence, this study examines which students perceive anti-academic norms by investigating the role of students' ethnic group categorization, their experi…
Ethnic Microaggressions and Adolescents' Self-Esteem and Academic Futility
The central focus of this study is the perceived frequency and consequences of ethnic microaggressions. Research in this area of adolescent literature on ethnic discrimination is underdeveloped. Evidence showing that microaggressions are not interchangeable with blatant forms of discrimination and can have a severe negative impact on well-being is scarce. This study focuses on (a) three subdimensions of microaggressions (denial of ethnic reality,…
Me, My Track and Society
Prior research has demonstrated the adverse effects of ability grouping (here tracking) on a broad range of outcomes for secondary school students, including their self-esteem. A recent line of study focuses on the importance of track identities in understanding how ability grouping impacts students. This study builds on these findings by investigating the role of public track regard and chauvinistic track identification on the relationship betwe…
Students’ chauvinistic track attitudes
Diversity ideologies in Flemish education
As most studies focus on the outcomes of multiculturalism, assimilation and colourblindness (MAC) for students, little is known about why schools vary in the diversity approaches that they adopt and the role of the teacher in this process. This study explores how teachers implement MAC diversity approaches and what drives them in doing so. Based on a cluster analysis of 38 schools, three extreme cases were selected that either valued (multicultur…
Perceived Teacher Discrimination and Depressive Feelings in Adolescents
Adolescents’ identities are multiple, yet there is very little research that investigates the importance of intersecting identities, especially in relationship to teacher ethnic/racial discrimination and mental health. Multiplicity is often approached bi-dimensional (heritage and national identities) yet this study highlights the importance of regional identity. Regions are distinct socio-political contexts in relation to migration and integratio…
Ethnic discrimination in secondary education
Ethnic discrimination is a serious problem in education. Previous quantitative research is predominately focused on the consequences of ethnic discrimination. Very little is known, however, about the characteristics of the school context that influence the initial experience of ethnic discrimination. This knowledge is essential to support schools in how to organize in a way that diminishes the likelihood of adolescents being discriminated against…
One does not simply track students
Although there is a wealth of research on the educational and broader outcomes of tracking in education, there is virtually no research that investigates teachers’ track identities on such outcomes. Building on research that focuses on the determinants of teachers’ job satisfaction, tracking outcomes and social categorization theory, this study tests the relationship between the perceived public regard of a teachers’ track and their job satisfact…
Entangled identities and acculturation
School of choice or schools’ choice? Intersectional correspondence testing on ethnic and class discrimination in the enrolment procedure to Flemish kindergarten
Most research on intake focusses on the restrictions parents’ capital cause on their abilities to choose. However, the steering effect of schools in the choice-process has been neglected. We chose the Flemish context to investigate ethnic- and class-discrimination in the enrolment to kindergarten (N = 2243). The Flemish education system is known for its exceptional ‘freedom of choice’ allowing parents to enrol their children into their school of …
The Paradox of Choice
Sinem Yilmaz, Bart Van de Putte, Peter AJ Stevens, The Paradox of Choice: Partner Choices among Highly Educated Turkish Belgian Women, DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2019), pp. 5-24
Remembering “The Dawning Age of Leisure”
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Self-esteem of academic and vocational students
Research into the effects of ability grouping has usually been conducted within schools. In the British and North American context, where the bulk of this kind of research has been carried out, ability grouping commonly occurs within schools. In Flanders - the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium - as in other European countries, there are not only tracks within schools, but schools themselves can be distinguished by the curriculum they offer…
School Ethnic Composition and Students' Integration Outside and Inside Schools in Belgium
To advance social integration, policy makers strive for the educational desegregation of immigrant students in Flemish schools. Given the lack of empirical research supporting this policy, this article examines the association between the ethnic composition of schools and native and immigrant students' interethnic friendships, social participation, and sense of belonging in school. Blau's structural theory offers the theoretical rationale for the…
Sense of Futility
It is often reported that delinquency and school misconduct are more prevalent among students in lower academic tracks. This article examines the relationship between school type (general vs. technical/vocational) and self-reported school misconduct, considering simultaneously two recurrent explanations: the students' self-esteem and 'strain theory.' Through a multilevel analysis, we assess the explanatory value of self-esteem, the sense of futil…
Study Involvement of Academic and Vocational Students
Although a rich tradition of mainly U.S. and U.K. research focuses on the nature and effects of tracking students within schools, little research has investigated the importance of tracking students in the same or in separate schools. The authors used data from a unique, representative survey in Flanders (Belgium) to examine how students’ study involvement varied between multilateral schools (in which all different tracks are offered) and categor…
Transnational Marriages on the Decline
This article reports a decline in transnational marriages among Turkish Belgians between 2001 and 2008 and explains the changing trends through a qualitative study of Turkish Belgians’ current partner preferences and union formation practices. Young people prefer a local marriage because it enables upward social mobility, and the possibility of premarital relationships and lower parental involvement seem to further add to the declining popularity…
Perceived Ethnic Discrimination by Teachers and Ethnic Minority Students’ Academic Futility
Exploring pupils' perceptions of teacher racism in their context
This article employs ethnographic data gathered from one Belgian (Flemish) secondary school to explore the meaning Belgian and Turkish‐speaking minority pupils enrolled in technical and vocational education attach to teacher racism and racial discrimination, and to explore variations between pupils in making claims of teacher racism. A symbolic interactionist framework is employed to explore how pupils define teacher racism and how a particular c…
No more Turkish music!' The acculturation strategies of teachers and ethnic minority students in Flemish schools
While considerable research has focused on the process and factors affecting acculturation, there is little research that investigates how members of minority and majority groups define acculturation in educational settings. Ethnographic research and qualitative interviews in three secondary schools in Flanders (Belgium) show that teachers and ethnic minority students have different ideas and expectancies regarding the concept ‘integration’, whic…
The attitude-achievement paradox in Belgium
In Belgium, students of Turkish and North African descent express optimistic attitudes toward education. However, these attitudes conflict with their achievement results, as many underachieve compared to their peers of Belgian descent. Mickelson's work discusses this attitude-achievement paradox in the United States. In the current study, we use Mickelson's framework to investigate the attitude-achievement paradox in Belgium. Using quantitative a…
School ethnic composition and aspirations of immigrant students in Belgium
This article examines the association between school ethnic composition and immigrant students’ intentions to finish high school and to move on to higher education. We used data from 1324 immigrant and 10,546 native students gathered in the school year 2004–2005 in a sample of 85 Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools. Logistic multilevel analyses (HLM6) show that students attending schools with a majority of native students (enrolling less than 20%…
Exploring the Importance of Teachers' Institutional Structure on the Development of Teachers' Standards of Assessment in Belgium
While a large body of research has focused on the effects of teachers' educational standards and/or expectations of different types of pupils related to pupils' ability, race/ethnicity, gender, and/or social class, there has been much less research on how such standards/expectations are formed by teachers' institutional structure. Previous research on the impact of institutional factors on teachers' pedagogy and curriculum has suggested the usefu…
Tracking and sense of futility
It has been established since the 1960s that tracking yields negative consequences for students in lower tracks. As this research has been carried out mainly in the USA and UK , the effects of tracking have been demonstrated in systems of within‐school tracking mostly. However, in many European countries—such as Belgium (Flanders)—tracking is commonly organised between schools. The question then arises whether the specific system of tracking, wit…
Exploring the importance of institutional contexts for the development of ethnic stereotypes
This article suggests the usefulness of an ecological approach in studying the development of teachers' ethnic stereotypes in schools. It builds on existing research in this area by exploring the importance of nationally specific educational contexts and school characteristics on the development of teachers' stereotypes of Turkish minority students. Observation and interview data from case-study research involving one Flemish (Belgian) and one En…
School of choice or schools’ choice? Intersectional correspondence testing on ethnic and class discrimination in the enrolment procedure to Flemish kindergarten
Most research on intake focusses on the restrictions parents’ capital cause on their abilities to choose. However, the steering effect of schools in the choice-process has been neglected. We chose the Flemish context to investigate ethnic- and class-discrimination in the enrolment to kindergarten (N = 2243). The Flemish education system is known for its exceptional ‘freedom of choice’ allowing parents to enrol their children into their school of …
How does ethnic and non-ethnic victimization by peers and by teachers relate to the school belongingness of ethnic minority students in Flanders, Belgium? An explorative study
Pupils' perspectives on racism and differential treatment by teachers
While British educational researchers have given considerable attention to issues of racism, little attention has been given to how pupils themselves perceive differential teacher treatment and how such views relate to pupils' claims of teacher racism and racial discrimination. This article employs ethnographic data gathered from one English and two Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools to investigate pupils' perceptions of teachers' differential t…
Everyone has their own qualities’
Professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy
Multicultural school leadership, multicultural teacher culture and the ethnic prejudice of Flemish pupils
How humor makes or breaks student-teacher relationships
On Becoming “Too Belgian”
While considerable research has shown that coethnic communities exercise pressure on their members to conform to certain normative patterns, there is little research that explains variability within coethnic groups regarding ethnic conformity pressure. Drawing on fieldwork and semistructured interviews with children and grandchildren of Turkish immigrants living in Ghent and five mining towns in Belgium, we explain differences in ethnic conformit…
The ethnic prejudice of Flemish teachers
These findings highlight the need for more research into the underlying processes, such as pupils' teachability, that influence the relationship between school characteristics and the ethnic prejudice of teachers. More knowledge about the context-specific factors and processes that mediate and/or moderate this relationship can increase the theoretical understanding of the development of ethnic prejudice. It can also highlight particular social ch…
The perceived role of Islamic religiosity in minorities' educational success in Belgium. A cure or curse
In Western Europe, Islam is largely perceived as a barrier to the integration of immigrant minorities into the mainstream and as a hindrance to educational success. However, little is known about the perceived role of Islamic religiosity (beliefs, commitments, behaviors and networks) with respect to educational success. In-depth interviews were carried out with Flemish high-school students (N = 129) (northern part of Belgium) in three secondary s…
Ethnic discrimination in secondary education
Ethnic discrimination is a serious problem in education. Previous quantitative research is predominately focused on the consequences of ethnic discrimination. Very little is known, however, about the characteristics of the school context that influence the initial experience of ethnic discrimination. This knowledge is essential to support schools in how to organize in a way that diminishes the likelihood of adolescents being discriminated against…
Is the Sky Really the Limit? Exploring the Attitude-Achievement Paradox in the Belgian Context
While immigrant students in Belgium have expressed high educational aspirations, if we compare them with ethnic majority students, those aspirations are not reflected in their achievement results. Ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews with students from 10 class groups in three Flemish schools (northern part of Belgium) were used to understand why these high aspirations are not translated into actual examination results, also k…
Ideology and Schooling
(1976). Ideology and Schooling. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 29-41
One need not be a Marxist A Marxist Response to Simons and Warren
Climbing the Poundian Alps
Michael Alexander. The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979. 247 pp. William Harmon. Tune in Ezra Pound's Work. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. 165 + xiii pp. Leon Surette. A Light from Eleusis: A Study of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. 306 + xiv pp. The greatest stumbling block in modern poetry is probably Ezra Pound's Cantos. What are…
Le phénomène du 'canon introductif' dans le Code de droit canonique
L'A. traite le contenu et la fonction des canons introductifs dans le Code de droit canonique de 1983. Ceux-ci sont enumeres ici suivant un critere formel et avec les nuances necessaires. Les canons definissent en sorte la structure de l'intrepretation du Code. Les canons introductifs sont de nature theologique, philosophique, juridique ou mixte. Des lors que l'on modifie ou complete ces canons, tout le Code s'en trouve change. Une etude plus pro…
Professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy
Exploring the Importance of Teachers' Institutional Structure on the Development of Teachers' Standards of Assessment in Belgium
While a large body of research has focused on the effects of teachers' educational standards and/or expectations of different types of pupils related to pupils' ability, race/ethnicity, gender, and/or social class, there has been much less research on how such standards/expectations are formed by teachers' institutional structure. Previous research on the impact of institutional factors on teachers' pedagogy and curriculum has suggested the usefu…
Learning to Use Discourse Analysis on a Professional Psychology Training Programme
Qualitative research methods have become more prominent in professional psychology training over recent years, yet there are relatively few published accounts of how students learn to use these methods. In this article we describe the experiences of three British trainee clinical psychologists as they learn to use one qualitative method, Discourse Analysis, for their major research project. Based on these experiences, we discuss key aspects of th…
Exploring pupils' perceptions of teacher racism in their context
This article employs ethnographic data gathered from one Belgian (Flemish) secondary school to explore the meaning Belgian and Turkish‐speaking minority pupils enrolled in technical and vocational education attach to teacher racism and racial discrimination, and to explore variations between pupils in making claims of teacher racism. A symbolic interactionist framework is employed to explore how pupils define teacher racism and how a particular c…
Sense of Futility
It is often reported that delinquency and school misconduct are more prevalent among students in lower academic tracks. This article examines the relationship between school type (general vs. technical/vocational) and self-reported school misconduct, considering simultaneously two recurrent explanations: the students' self-esteem and 'strain theory.' Through a multilevel analysis, we assess the explanatory value of self-esteem, the sense of futil…
Pupils' perspectives on racism and differential treatment by teachers
While British educational researchers have given considerable attention to issues of racism, little attention has been given to how pupils themselves perceive differential teacher treatment and how such views relate to pupils' claims of teacher racism and racial discrimination. This article employs ethnographic data gathered from one English and two Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools to investigate pupils' perceptions of teachers' differential t…
Study Involvement of Academic and Vocational Students
Although a rich tradition of mainly U.S. and U.K. research focuses on the nature and effects of tracking students within schools, little research has investigated the importance of tracking students in the same or in separate schools. The authors used data from a unique, representative survey in Flanders (Belgium) to examine how students’ study involvement varied between multilateral schools (in which all different tracks are offered) and categor…
School Ethnic Composition and Students' Integration Outside and Inside Schools in Belgium
To advance social integration, policy makers strive for the educational desegregation of immigrant students in Flemish schools. Given the lack of empirical research supporting this policy, this article examines the association between the ethnic composition of schools and native and immigrant students' interethnic friendships, social participation, and sense of belonging in school. Blau's structural theory offers the theoretical rationale for the…
School ethnic composition and aspirations of immigrant students in Belgium
This article examines the association between school ethnic composition and immigrant students’ intentions to finish high school and to move on to higher education. We used data from 1324 immigrant and 10,546 native students gathered in the school year 2004–2005 in a sample of 85 Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools. Logistic multilevel analyses (HLM6) show that students attending schools with a majority of native students (enrolling less than 20%…
Exploring the importance of institutional contexts for the development of ethnic stereotypes
This article suggests the usefulness of an ecological approach in studying the development of teachers' ethnic stereotypes in schools. It builds on existing research in this area by exploring the importance of nationally specific educational contexts and school characteristics on the development of teachers' stereotypes of Turkish minority students. Observation and interview data from case-study research involving one Flemish (Belgian) and one En…
Researching race/ethnicity and educational inequality in the Netherlands
This article describes and critically analyzes how educational sociologists in the Netherlands have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality between 1980 and 2008. Five major research traditions are identified: (1) political arithmetic; (2) racism and ethnic discrimination; (3) school characteristics; (4) school choice; and (5) family background. The development of particular research traditions is explained by p…
Self-esteem of academic and vocational students
Research into the effects of ability grouping has usually been conducted within schools. In the British and North American context, where the bulk of this kind of research has been carried out, ability grouping commonly occurs within schools. In Flanders - the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium - as in other European countries, there are not only tracks within schools, but schools themselves can be distinguished by the curriculum they offer…
“Roughing it in Comfort”
This article draws upon recent studies of anti-modernism to explore the relationship between consumer culture and family cottaging in Ontario during the quarter century following the Second World War. It examines both the actions and ideas of actual postwar cottagers, as revealed primarily through oral history, as well as the representations of cottaging that appeared in postwar newspapers and magazines. Using these diverse sources, the article e…
Curriculum tracking and teacher evaluations of individual students
On Becoming “Too Belgian”
While considerable research has shown that coethnic communities exercise pressure on their members to conform to certain normative patterns, there is little research that explains variability within coethnic groups regarding ethnic conformity pressure. Drawing on fieldwork and semistructured interviews with children and grandchildren of Turkish immigrants living in Ghent and five mining towns in Belgium, we explain differences in ethnic conformit…
Transnational Marriages on the Decline
This article reports a decline in transnational marriages among Turkish Belgians between 2001 and 2008 and explains the changing trends through a qualitative study of Turkish Belgians’ current partner preferences and union formation practices. Young people prefer a local marriage because it enables upward social mobility, and the possibility of premarital relationships and lower parental involvement seem to further add to the declining popularity…
Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education
How tracking structures attitudes towards ethnic out-groups and interethnic interactions in the classroom
Pushing the Boundaries
Testing the Relationship between Nationalism and Racism
This article builds on a growing body of research that shows an intrinsic but complex relationship between the concepts and the ideologies of nationalism and racism. In doing so, it investigates how different, meaningful national and ethnic in-group identifications of a dominant national/ethnic group (Greek-Cypriots) within a given national context (Cyprus) influence their perceptions of different, meaningful ethnic and racial minority out-groups…
Love Without Boundaries? How Ethnic Boundary Dynamics Shape Interethnic Partner Choice among Turkish Belgians
Psychology (58 works) · Sociology (53 works) · Social Psychology (42 works) · Ethnic group (35 works) · Pedagogy (34 works) · Political science (34 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Flemish (24 works) · Geography (20 works) · Mathematics education (17 works)