Toon Tierens

• Platformisation and digitalisation of school education
• Private-public partnerships and education policy
• Qualitative research methods

• Since October 2021: PhD student at the faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KU Leuven, working on the SMASCH (smart schools) project under the supervision of prof. Dr. Mathias Decuypere, prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong and Dr. Samira Ali Reza Beigi
• 09/2019 – 06/2021:  Master in Educational Sciences – Studies in Schooling and Bildung
  
  Master thesis: Care of the self as a prerequisite for “good” educational practice? The contribution of Stanley Cavell’s Emersonian perfectionism
  
• 08/20 – 12/20: Research intern at the research group of Education, Culture and Society (KU Leuven) under the supervision of prof. Dr. Jan Masschelein and at LUCA School of Arts (Ghent) under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Vansieleghem.
  
  Project:  Co-developing a book called ‘Artuarium – the grammar of art school’
  
• 09/2016 – 06/2019: Bachelor in Educational Sciences – Social and Cultural Pedagogy

• Tierens, Toon; Decuypere, Mathias; & Hartong, Sigrid (2024). Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality. In: Learning, Media and Technology. Link.
• Decuypere, Mathias; Hartong, Sigrid; Brandau, Nina; Joecks, Lucas; Loft-Akhoondi, Anja; Ortegón, Carlos; Tierens, Toon & Vanermen, Lanze (2024) Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector. In: Critical Studies in Education: 1-20. Link.
• Tierens, Toon; Decuypere, Mathias; Alirezabeigi, Samira; & Hartong, Sigrid (2024). Governing through time(s): temporal modes of governance in digital education policy. In: British Journal Of Sociology Of Education, 45 (4), 609-624. Link.

Tierens, T. (2024). Uncertainty as an educational condition: Digitality and the pedagogical relevance of being vulnerable. Presented at the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) 2024 Congress, Muttenz, Switzerland, 09 Sep 2024-11 Sep 2024.

Tierens, T. (2023). Becoming platform workers: Teachers’ dwelling in socio-technical environments. Presented at the Platforms and Pedagogies: Digital technologies and new perspectives for Youth and Education – Invited Symposium., Utrecht, The Netherlands, 14 Dec 2023-15 Dec 2023.

Tierens, T.; Loft-Akhoondi, A.; Hartong, S.; & Decuypere, M. (2023). What is the ‘co’ in (critical) co-design? A self-reflexive study on the digital empowerment of low SES schools. Presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 22 Aug 2023-25 Aug 2023.

Tierens, T.; Alirezabeigi, S.; Hartong, S.; & Decuypere, M. (2023). Platformized teachers’ professionalities: On forms of dwelling. Presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 22 Aug 2023-25 Aug 2023.

Hartong, S. Decuypere, M.; & Tierens, T. (2023). Navigating through the conceptual jungle of digital school transformation – an introduction to the SMASCH project. Presented at the Transformation(en) im Fokus der SIIVE. Transformationsprozesse erforschen, reflektieren, begleiten, Berlin, 09 Mar 2023-10 Mar 2023.

Tierens, T., Hartong, S.; & Decuypere, M. (2022). School autonomy in accelerated digitalisation: On ‘time’ in pandemic modes of governing. Presented at the AARE 2022 Conference – Transforming the Future of Education: The Role of Research, Adelaide, 27 Nov 2022-01 Dec 2022.

Working title of the dissertation: Platformisation of schools: towards an educational approach

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mathias Decuypere (KU Leuven)
Co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong, Dr. Samira Ali Reza Beigi