Jochen Devlieghere
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4414964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jochen Devlieghere |
| PRENOMES | Jochen |
| SOBRENOME | Devlieghere |
| ASSINATURA | DEVLIEGHERE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5889-1067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Barriers and Facilitators in the Transitions from Childcare to Preschool
Interprofessional collaboration in Ecec
In various European countries, there is significant variation in the level of early childhood education and care (ECEC) system integration. In these countries, in which the level of system integration varies from split to integrated systems, there is a growing interest in interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between ECEC, school, and family support (family services, welfare, and child protection services) to offer integrated services for childre…
Choosing to care
The childcare sector is experiencing major staff shortages, putting pressure on the quality provided within childcare centers and consequently on the children. One cause of these shortages is the insufficient supply of new childcare professionals. This study examines pre-service childcare professionals’ intentions to enter the field in relation to the following three aspects: study choice motivation, practicum experiences and perceptions of worki…
The (ab)sense of a conceptualization of social cohesion in social work
Social work practices have been placed high on the European agenda to promote social cohesion. A particular field to grasp this complexity of promoting social cohesion lies in child and family services. A systematic narrative literature review was implemented led by the following research questions: (i) How does social work literature conceptualize social cohesion? (ii) How does child and family social work literature conceptualise social cohesio…
Neutrality is not an option
Preschool teachers’ beliefs and perspectives on gender in education
Preschool teachers are crucial actors in the socialization process and the construction of gender ideas of young children. Their gender ideas influence interactions with children. Education has a profound gendered nature in which gender stereotypes are often reproduced and enacted. This qualitative study is a critical exploration of preschool teachers' beliefs and perspectives on sex and gender in the classroom. Semi-structured interviews (n = 22…
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support
Promoting social cohesion through early childhood services has become a priority on the political agenda. Despite joint academic and political attention, a consensus on what social cohesion is, is lacking. While child and family social work is framed as ideal to foster social cohesion, there is little knowledge on what this may mean. The aim of the current study is to analyse the meaning making of child and family social work practitioners regard…
Child and Family Social Work as a Space for Promoting Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion is frequently mentioned as an objective for child and family social work from a policy perspective. However, it is unclear how policies shape concrete child and family social work practices. The aim of the current study is to analyse how early childhood services in Flanders (Belgium) commit to the promotion social cohesion. An explorative multiple case study in Flanders, using (non)participatory observations ( N = 40), w…
Parental Involvement in early childhood education and care
Over the past few decades, scholars have paid attention to how PI (parental involvement) impacts children’s performance at school. Hence, PI is often reduced to school-centric involvement. Moreover, several studies have shown social class differences in PI, but relatively little attention has been paid to social class differences in culturally diverse contexts. In this article, we contribute to this discussion by reflecting upon how parents conce…
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context
Public welfare actors struggle with the question how they can guarantee children’s wellbeing. The answer to this question depends on the countries’ perspective concerning its responsibility for the care of its citizens. In the Flemish context, a maximalist child protection logic – with a focus on the realisation of rights – is adopted. In this article, we focus on the so-called ‘bottleneck cases’ and use the case of Zoë as a concrete application …
Policymakers on social cohesion
Promoting social cohesion through early childhood services has become a priority on the political agenda as a result of societal developments. Despite joint academic and political attention, there nevertheless remains no agreement on what social cohesion is. This leads to the paradoxical situation in which early childhood services are characterised as ideal to foster social cohesion, while there is little research on what this may mean. The aim o…
No more colouring outside the lines? Exploring young people’s navigational agency in education
This article highlights the inequality in the Flemish education system, which disproportionately affects youngsters with low socioeconomic status. This inequality is attributed to the human capital approach characterising current educational policies, putting emphasis on educational outcomes. This results in education that homogenises and limits acceptable student behaviour and in which deviations from the norm are met with exclusionary and punit…
Transparency in Social Work
Social work is a mostly discursive practice, comprised of the verbal and written interactions between service users, social workers, social work managers and supervisors and numerous external agencies. The words used to describe service users and service delivery are therefore important. These words change over time, and new words come into use. With the introduction of New Public Management, new concepts and ideas were introduced to social work …
What parents and teachers say about their relationships in Ecec
A growing body of literature refers to the potential of parental involvement (PI) as a critical educational remedy and solution for a diversity of issues in ECEC. However, the reflection of mainstream values and assumptions and the lack of attention to cultural differences in this existing body of literature has been criticized. In this article, we, therefore, conducted 15 focus groups to explore parents and teachers’ perspectives on what they pe…
Developing a positive living climate in residential youth care
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic
For several months now, social practitioners – like many other professions – have been on the frontline fighting the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the health and well-being of many service users and
Documenting Practices in Human Service Organisations through Information Systems
Over the last decades, transparency about what is happening on the ground has become a hot topic in the field of social work. Despite the importance of transparent social work, the realisation in practice is far from obvious. In order to create this transparency for a diversity of stakeholders, legislative bodies and human services increasingly rely on so-called electronic information systems. However, it remains unclear how frontline managers ma…
Electronic information systems as means for accountability
The public sector has been confronted with a mounting claim for accountability. While there are many ways to meet this demand, social work increasingly relies on electronic information systems (IS). Although it has been argued that IS assists services in demonstrating accountability, research sheds light on the pernicious effects of IS as well. For this reason, we interviewed 29 local managers to capture their perspective on the role of IS in cre…
Managing the electronic turn
Information systems have become ubiquitous across social work, leading to an electronic turn. A key tension is that IT embedded procedures can be counterproductive, encouraging those involved to direct their behaviour to comply with specific measures, rather than address the real issue for which the measures are just a proxy. This is particularly an issue for local managers, who have direct contact with service users and who increasingly mediate …
Proportionate universalism in child and family social work
Integrated services in preventive health care and child and family social work increasingly embrace the concept of proportionate universalism (PU) as a means of overcoming the dichotomy between universal and targeted services in contexts of diversity. The implementation of the concept of PU raises several theoretical and empirical questions that form the basis of this article. This study aims to provide more insight in how the concept of PU is op…
Foster parents between voluntarism and professionalisation
Top-Down Policy Implementation and Social Workers as Institutional Entrepreneurs
In this article, we focus on how social workers use their agency when implementing top-down policy measures as street-level bureaucrats. We report on findings of a case study that was conducted in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, about the top-down introduction of an electronic information system (IS) in the field of Child Welfare and Protection (CWP). Starting from insights derived from neo-institutional theory, we explore how soc…
A policy, management and practitioners’ perspective on social work's rational turn
Social work has been confronted with a belief that a more rationalised social work will lead to a more effective practice as well as prevent harm to children. However, there is little or no empirical insight into the discourses of the key actors involved (e.g. policy actors, managers and social practitioners). To capture their perspective, interviews were conducted with 15 key policy actors, 29 social service managers and 16 social practitioners.…
Creating Transparency through Electronic Information Systems
Over the past few decades, governments all over Europe have drawn upon a diversity of Electronic Information Systems (EISs). One of the aims of these EISs is the creation of a transparent Child Welfare and Protection (CWP) system. In that context, Gillingham and Graham (2016) argue that the implementation of EISs in social work has made the daily work of practitioners visible in ways that social workers in the 1970s and 1980s would have find unim…
Governmental Rationales for Installing Electronic Information Systems
Various authors have argued that electronic information systems (EIS) do not necessarily improve the responsiveness of social work. One of the main reasons given for these failings is the flawed implementation of EIS by professionals. However, we argue that the ongoing debate fails to be explicit about governmental rationales for installing EIS. This article presents the findings of a content analysis that aimed to uncover the governmental ration…
Developing a positive living climate in residential youth care
Documenting Practices in Human Service Organisations through Information Systems
Over the last decades, transparency about what is happening on the ground has become a hot topic in the field of social work. Despite the importance of transparent social work, the realisation in practice is far from obvious. In order to create this transparency for a diversity of stakeholders, legislative bodies and human services increasingly rely on so-called electronic information systems. However, it remains unclear how frontline managers ma…
Proportionate universalism in child and family social work
Integrated services in preventive health care and child and family social work increasingly embrace the concept of proportionate universalism (PU) as a means of overcoming the dichotomy between universal and targeted services in contexts of diversity. The implementation of the concept of PU raises several theoretical and empirical questions that form the basis of this article. This study aims to provide more insight in how the concept of PU is op…
Top-Down Policy Implementation and Social Workers as Institutional Entrepreneurs
In this article, we focus on how social workers use their agency when implementing top-down policy measures as street-level bureaucrats. We report on findings of a case study that was conducted in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, about the top-down introduction of an electronic information system (IS) in the field of Child Welfare and Protection (CWP). Starting from insights derived from neo-institutional theory, we explore how soc…
Creating Transparency through Electronic Information Systems
Over the past few decades, governments all over Europe have drawn upon a diversity of Electronic Information Systems (EISs). One of the aims of these EISs is the creation of a transparent Child Welfare and Protection (CWP) system. In that context, Gillingham and Graham (2016) argue that the implementation of EISs in social work has made the daily work of practitioners visible in ways that social workers in the 1970s and 1980s would have find unim…
Transparency in Social Work
Social work is a mostly discursive practice, comprised of the verbal and written interactions between service users, social workers, social work managers and supervisors and numerous external agencies. The words used to describe service users and service delivery are therefore important. These words change over time, and new words come into use. With the introduction of New Public Management, new concepts and ideas were introduced to social work …
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic
For several months now, social practitioners – like many other professions – have been on the frontline fighting the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the health and well-being of many service users and
Managing the electronic turn
Information systems have become ubiquitous across social work, leading to an electronic turn. A key tension is that IT embedded procedures can be counterproductive, encouraging those involved to direct their behaviour to comply with specific measures, rather than address the real issue for which the measures are just a proxy. This is particularly an issue for local managers, who have direct contact with service users and who increasingly mediate …
Foster parents between voluntarism and professionalisation
A policy, management and practitioners’ perspective on social work's rational turn
Social work has been confronted with a belief that a more rationalised social work will lead to a more effective practice as well as prevent harm to children. However, there is little or no empirical insight into the discourses of the key actors involved (e.g. policy actors, managers and social practitioners). To capture their perspective, interviews were conducted with 15 key policy actors, 29 social service managers and 16 social practitioners.…
Governmental Rationales for Installing Electronic Information Systems
Various authors have argued that electronic information systems (EIS) do not necessarily improve the responsiveness of social work. One of the main reasons given for these failings is the flawed implementation of EIS by professionals. However, we argue that the ongoing debate fails to be explicit about governmental rationales for installing EIS. This article presents the findings of a content analysis that aimed to uncover the governmental ration…
Policymakers on social cohesion
Promoting social cohesion through early childhood services has become a priority on the political agenda as a result of societal developments. Despite joint academic and political attention, there nevertheless remains no agreement on what social cohesion is. This leads to the paradoxical situation in which early childhood services are characterised as ideal to foster social cohesion, while there is little research on what this may mean. The aim o…
Electronic information systems as means for accountability
The public sector has been confronted with a mounting claim for accountability. While there are many ways to meet this demand, social work increasingly relies on electronic information systems (IS). Although it has been argued that IS assists services in demonstrating accountability, research sheds light on the pernicious effects of IS as well. For this reason, we interviewed 29 local managers to capture their perspective on the role of IS in cre…
Policy Rationales for Electronic Information Systems
Child welfare and protection (CWP) has engaged in the introduction of Electronic Information Systems (EIS), such as electronic recording, assessment and decision-making tools. It has been argued that EIS have adverse consequences in which governments are conceived as homogeneous entities that install EIS for self-interested purposes. Consequently, research focuses on how social workers evade/reshape the sometimes pernicious effects of EIS. Insuff…
Governmental Rationales for Installing Electronic Information Systems
Various authors have argued that electronic information systems (EIS) do not necessarily improve the responsiveness of social work. One of the main reasons given for these failings is the flawed implementation of EIS by professionals. However, we argue that the ongoing debate fails to be explicit about governmental rationales for installing EIS. This article presents the findings of a content analysis that aimed to uncover the governmental ration…
Policy Rationales for Electronic Information Systems
Child welfare and protection (CWP) has engaged in the introduction of Electronic Information Systems (EIS), such as electronic recording, assessment and decision-making tools. It has been argued that EIS have adverse consequences in which governments are conceived as homogeneous entities that install EIS for self-interested purposes. Consequently, research focuses on how social workers evade/reshape the sometimes pernicious effects of EIS. Insuff…
A policy, management and practitioners’ perspective on social work's rational turn
Social work has been confronted with a belief that a more rationalised social work will lead to a more effective practice as well as prevent harm to children. However, there is little or no empirical insight into the discourses of the key actors involved (e.g. policy actors, managers and social practitioners). To capture their perspective, interviews were conducted with 15 key policy actors, 29 social service managers and 16 social practitioners.…
Creating Transparency through Electronic Information Systems
Over the past few decades, governments all over Europe have drawn upon a diversity of Electronic Information Systems (EISs). One of the aims of these EISs is the creation of a transparent Child Welfare and Protection (CWP) system. In that context, Gillingham and Graham (2016) argue that the implementation of EISs in social work has made the daily work of practitioners visible in ways that social workers in the 1970s and 1980s would have find unim…
Documenting Practices in Human Service Organisations through Information Systems
Over the last decades, transparency about what is happening on the ground has become a hot topic in the field of social work. Despite the importance of transparent social work, the realisation in practice is far from obvious. In order to create this transparency for a diversity of stakeholders, legislative bodies and human services increasingly rely on so-called electronic information systems. However, it remains unclear how frontline managers ma…
Electronic information systems as means for accountability
The public sector has been confronted with a mounting claim for accountability. While there are many ways to meet this demand, social work increasingly relies on electronic information systems (IS). Although it has been argued that IS assists services in demonstrating accountability, research sheds light on the pernicious effects of IS as well. For this reason, we interviewed 29 local managers to capture their perspective on the role of IS in cre…
Managing the electronic turn
Information systems have become ubiquitous across social work, leading to an electronic turn. A key tension is that IT embedded procedures can be counterproductive, encouraging those involved to direct their behaviour to comply with specific measures, rather than address the real issue for which the measures are just a proxy. This is particularly an issue for local managers, who have direct contact with service users and who increasingly mediate …
Proportionate universalism in child and family social work
Integrated services in preventive health care and child and family social work increasingly embrace the concept of proportionate universalism (PU) as a means of overcoming the dichotomy between universal and targeted services in contexts of diversity. The implementation of the concept of PU raises several theoretical and empirical questions that form the basis of this article. This study aims to provide more insight in how the concept of PU is op…
Foster parents between voluntarism and professionalisation
Top-Down Policy Implementation and Social Workers as Institutional Entrepreneurs
In this article, we focus on how social workers use their agency when implementing top-down policy measures as street-level bureaucrats. We report on findings of a case study that was conducted in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, about the top-down introduction of an electronic information system (IS) in the field of Child Welfare and Protection (CWP). Starting from insights derived from neo-institutional theory, we explore how soc…
What parents and teachers say about their relationships in Ecec
A growing body of literature refers to the potential of parental involvement (PI) as a critical educational remedy and solution for a diversity of issues in ECEC. However, the reflection of mainstream values and assumptions and the lack of attention to cultural differences in this existing body of literature has been criticized. In this article, we, therefore, conducted 15 focus groups to explore parents and teachers’ perspectives on what they pe…
Developing a positive living climate in residential youth care
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic
For several months now, social practitioners – like many other professions – have been on the frontline fighting the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the health and well-being of many service users and
No more colouring outside the lines? Exploring young people’s navigational agency in education
This article highlights the inequality in the Flemish education system, which disproportionately affects youngsters with low socioeconomic status. This inequality is attributed to the human capital approach characterising current educational policies, putting emphasis on educational outcomes. This results in education that homogenises and limits acceptable student behaviour and in which deviations from the norm are met with exclusionary and punit…
Transparency in Social Work
Social work is a mostly discursive practice, comprised of the verbal and written interactions between service users, social workers, social work managers and supervisors and numerous external agencies. The words used to describe service users and service delivery are therefore important. These words change over time, and new words come into use. With the introduction of New Public Management, new concepts and ideas were introduced to social work …
Policymakers on social cohesion
Promoting social cohesion through early childhood services has become a priority on the political agenda as a result of societal developments. Despite joint academic and political attention, there nevertheless remains no agreement on what social cohesion is. This leads to the paradoxical situation in which early childhood services are characterised as ideal to foster social cohesion, while there is little research on what this may mean. The aim o…
Parental Involvement in early childhood education and care
Over the past few decades, scholars have paid attention to how PI (parental involvement) impacts children’s performance at school. Hence, PI is often reduced to school-centric involvement. Moreover, several studies have shown social class differences in PI, but relatively little attention has been paid to social class differences in culturally diverse contexts. In this article, we contribute to this discussion by reflecting upon how parents conce…
Realising a responsive social work practice in a non-responsive context
Public welfare actors struggle with the question how they can guarantee children’s wellbeing. The answer to this question depends on the countries’ perspective concerning its responsibility for the care of its citizens. In the Flemish context, a maximalist child protection logic – with a focus on the realisation of rights – is adopted. In this article, we focus on the so-called ‘bottleneck cases’ and use the case of Zoë as a concrete application …
Preschool teachers’ beliefs and perspectives on gender in education
Preschool teachers are crucial actors in the socialization process and the construction of gender ideas of young children. Their gender ideas influence interactions with children. Education has a profound gendered nature in which gender stereotypes are often reproduced and enacted. This qualitative study is a critical exploration of preschool teachers' beliefs and perspectives on sex and gender in the classroom. Semi-structured interviews (n = 22…
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support
Promoting social cohesion through early childhood services has become a priority on the political agenda. Despite joint academic and political attention, a consensus on what social cohesion is, is lacking. While child and family social work is framed as ideal to foster social cohesion, there is little knowledge on what this may mean. The aim of the current study is to analyse the meaning making of child and family social work practitioners regard…
Child and Family Social Work as a Space for Promoting Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion is frequently mentioned as an objective for child and family social work from a policy perspective. However, it is unclear how policies shape concrete child and family social work practices. The aim of the current study is to analyse how early childhood services in Flanders (Belgium) commit to the promotion social cohesion. An explorative multiple case study in Flanders, using (non)participatory observations ( N = 40), w…
The (ab)sense of a conceptualization of social cohesion in social work
Social work practices have been placed high on the European agenda to promote social cohesion. A particular field to grasp this complexity of promoting social cohesion lies in child and family services. A systematic narrative literature review was implemented led by the following research questions: (i) How does social work literature conceptualize social cohesion? (ii) How does child and family social work literature conceptualise social cohesio…
Neutrality is not an option
Barriers and Facilitators in the Transitions from Childcare to Preschool
Interprofessional collaboration in Ecec
In various European countries, there is significant variation in the level of early childhood education and care (ECEC) system integration. In these countries, in which the level of system integration varies from split to integrated systems, there is a growing interest in interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between ECEC, school, and family support (family services, welfare, and child protection services) to offer integrated services for childre…
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