● Jan Peeters

Jan Peeters

Main information

Belgian

Affiliation

Fair Start Stories, Centre for Innovations in the Early Years

Levels of education

ECEC
School education
VET
Higher Education
Non-formal and informal learning
Adult education

Geographical scope of expertise

Policy themes

Access to high quality education for all
Funding and governance of education and training
Content of education and training curricula, development of key competences
Vulnerable groups in education and training, ensuring inclusion and non-discrimination
Gender, sexual identities
Early school leaving, participation in education and training
Parental and stakeholders’ engagement, whole-school approach
Education and migration
Monitoring for equity and quality in education and training
Education and training of professional workforce
Cross-sectorial working
Active citizenship and identity in education
Transitions, mobility and cross-border cooperation
Innovation and equity in education

Selected publications

Peeters, J (2023). In Search of Pedagogical Heroes: What Makes Practitioners Improve Their Pedagogical Practice? In Hansen S.H. & Ringsmore C. Quality in early Childhood Education and Care through Leadership and Organizational Learning. Springer: Cham, Switserland
Peeters, J (2022). ” Will you please tell your wife….” Fathers, second grade parents for young children?- In Lehrer , J., Hadley, F., Van Laere, K., Rouse, E. Relationship with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care. Beyond Instrumentalization in International Contexts of Diversity and Social Inequality. Routledge: London
Peeters, J. (2021). VVOB – education for development: Community of practice Inspiring Teaching Innovations in the early Education System in Vietnam – CITIES. Ghent, Da Nang.
Peeters, J., Declercq, B. (2020). Synthesis Report. VVOB – education for development: Equity-focussed Mid-Term Evaluation of two education programmes: Leading and Teaching for Diversity, South Africa and Mitigating Barriers to Learning, Vietnam.
Peeters, J. (2020) Profissionalidade e Genero: Participacao dos homens e Pequena infancia . Zero-a-Seis 22, n 22 p.322-340 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Vandekerckhove, A., Hulpia, H., Hutova, J., Peeters, J. Makareviciené, A. (2019). The role of ECEC in integrated working, benefitting vulnerable groups such as Roma. NESET. Luxembourg: European Union.
Peeters, J. (2019) Ce qui fait que les professional.le.s améliorent leur pratique pédagogique. Le Furet, Petite Enfance et diversité. No. 92. Strasbourg , p.52-54
Formosinho, J. & Peeters, J. eds. (2019). Understanding pedagogic Documentation in Early Childhood Education. Revealing and Reflecting on High Quality Learning and Teaching. New York, Oxon. Routledge.
Peeters, J. Ayça A. Hysion, M., Hsiao-Chen Lin (2019) Pathways to Develop/ Strenghten the pre-primary Workforce in LMICs White Paper for UNICEF New York
Hysion, M, Sandipan P., Hsiao Chen, Borisova, I. Peeters, J. Alayli, A. (2019) Technical Guidance on pre-primary workforce development in LMIC’s. UNICEF New York
Peeters, J. (2019) Improving the quality of ECEC services in Ukraïne. UNICEF Ukraïne.
Peeters, J. Hulpia, H. (2018). Improving the quality of ECEC services in Georgia
Peeters, J. (2018). Developing and implementing a framework and process to monitor and improve the quality of ECEC services in Serbia
Peeters, J. Miskeljin L. (2018). Towards a new initial training for ECEC teachers in Serbia.
Peleman, B., Jensen, B., Peeters, J. (2018). Editors of Special Issue on Innovative Approaches towards Continuous Professional Development in ECEC. European Journal for Education.
Peeters, J., Peleman, B. (2017) The Competent System at the Intersection of Research, Policymaking and Practice.; In Miller, Cameron, Dalli, & Barbour The Sage handbook for Early Childhood Policy. Sage : London.
Peeters, J, Sharmahd, N. Budginaitė, I. (2017). Early Childhood Education and Care Assistants in Europe: Pathways towards continuous professional development and qualification. European Journal for Education. Special Issue.
Sharmahd, N. Peeters, J., Bushati, M. (2018) towards Continuous professional development: experiencing group reflection to analyse practice in Albania. European Journal for Education. Special Issue on Innovative Approaches towards Continuous Professional Development.
Peleman, B., Lazzari, A., Peeters, J., Budginaitė, I., Siarova, H., Huauari, H. Cameron C. (2018). Continuous professional development and ECEC Quality: Findings from a European systematic literature review. Eur. J. Educ 2018/53_9_2
Sharmahd, , Peeters, J., Van Laere, K., Vonta, T., De Kimpe, C., Brajković, S., Contini, L., Giovannini, D.. (2017). Transforming European ECEC services and schools into professional learning communities: drivers, barriers and ways forward NESET II. Luxemburg, Publication Office of European Union. Doi 10.2766/74332
Peeters, J. ; Sharmahd, N.; Budginaité,I.(2016). Professionalisation of Childcare assistants in ECEC. Pathways towards qualification. NESET II report. Luxembourg: Publications of the European Union.
Peeters, J. (2016). Working with young children from poor and migrant families. Dossier. La Nouvelle revue de l’ adaptation et la scolarisation 73 (1) 1 -15.
Peeters, J. (2016). Quality of ECE services in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro. Unicef, Geneva.
Peeters, J., Rohrmann, T. & Emilsen, K. (2015). Gender balance in ECEC: why is there no progress? European Early Childhood Education Research Journal.
Peeters, J., Lazzari, A., Cameron, C., Budginaite, I., Hauari H., Peleman, B. & Siarova, H. (2015). Early Childhood Care: working conditions, training and quality – A systematic review. Dublin: Eurofound.
Rimantas, D., Peeters, J., Hayes, N., Van Landeghem, G., Siarova, H., Peciukonytė, L., Cenerić,I & Hulpia, H. (2014). Study on the effective use of Early childhood education and care in preventing early school leaving. Brussels: European Commission DG E&C.
Peeters, J. and Sharmahd, N. (2014). ‘Professional development for ECEC practitioners with responsibilities for children at risk: which competences and which in-service training are needed?’, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. Special issue. ECEC for children / families from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Peeters, J. and Lazzari, A. (2013). ‘Competenze Professionali. Quali competenze per I professionisti della prima infanzia?’, IUSNE Crisi economica e creatitivita educative: L’ innovazione inizia dal Nido. Verona, pp. 14-27.
Peeters, J. (2013). Public Childcare Services in the European Union: The model of Belgium, Barcelona Targets Revisited. Brussels: European Parliament, DG for Internal Policies.
Vandenbroeck, M., Peeters, J. and Bouverne-De Bie, M. (2013). ‘Lifelong learning and the counter/professionalisationof child care: A case study of local hybridizations of global European discourses’, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 21(1), pp. 109-124.
Peeters, J. (2013). ‘Can research realise a bit of utopia? The impact of action-research on the policy of childcare in Flanders’, Early Years an International Journal of Research and Development, 32(2), pp. 159-170.
Peeters, J. (2013). ‘Towards a gender neutral interpretation of professionalism in ECEC’, Revista Espanola de Educacion Comparada, 21, pp. 119-143.
Peeters, J. (2012). ‘Childcare Professionalism in Flanders: An Inside-Outside Perspective’, in Miller, L., Dalli, C. and Urban, M. (eds.) Early Childhood Grows up. Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession.Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.
Peeters, J. and Vandenbroeck, M. (2012). ‘Childcare practitioners and the process of profesionalisation’, in Miller, L., Dury, R. and Cable, C. (eds.) Extending professional practice in the early years. Sage, Open University.
Peeters, J. and Vandenbroeck, M. (2012). ‘A la recherche des systèmes compétents: conclusions et recommandations de CoRe un projet de recherche européen sur les compétences requises en EAPE’, Petite Enfance, 107, pp. 79-86.
Van Laere, K., Peeters, J. and Lund, S. (2012). Valuing the workforce: a 0-6 profession and parity with school teachers. Dossier Children in Europe.
Peeters, J. (2008). The construction of a new profession. A European perspective on professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care. Amsterdam: SWP Publishers.