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Caroline Vandekinderen

Researcher at Ghent University

Publications -  19
Citations -  248

Caroline Vandekinderen is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Social work. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 19 publications receiving 212 citations.

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Rediscovering recovery: reconceptualizing underlying assumptions of citizenship and interrelated notions of care and support.

TL;DR: It is argued that the conditionality of the individual approach to recovery refers to a conceptualization of citizenship as normative, based on the existence of a norm that operates in every domain of the authors' society, and underlying assumptions of citizenship and interrelated notions and features of care and support are identified.
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Tackling social inequality and exclusion in education: from human capital to capabilities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to contribute to process-oriented knowledge about the ways in which educational and social welfare actors can support socially vulnerable young people in realising their capability for education rather than focusing on human capital.
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Reinventing the Employable Citizen: A Perspective for Social Work

TL;DR: In this paper, a relational approach to citizenship enables social workers in Belgium to make use of their discretionary space to (re)negotiate the finality of employment trajectories in a flexible way.
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One Size Fits All? The Social Construction of Dis-Employ-Abled Women.

TL;DR: In this article, an evaluation of a labour-market training program for women with mental health problems in a social workplace in Belgium was carried out, and the findings demonstrate that the social workplace functions as a male bastion, in which the oversized overalls that women are forced to wear are symbolically relevant.
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The Researcher and the Beast Uncovering Processes of Othering and Becoming Animal in Research Ventures in the Field of Critical Disability Studies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss not only the complexity of some difficult ethical issues but also the peculiar and reciprocal engagements that emerged during the research process carried out with Jimmy Sax, along with the ways in which we have attempted to deal with the ethics of research to avoid a reproduction of processes of Othering in the field of critical disability studies.