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The Pavement and the Hospital Bed: Care Environments as Part of Everyday Life KU Leuven
We start this invited perspective with two excerpts. The first is an advertisement for A+, a Belgian architecture journal, which devoted an issue to architecture for children to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. The second comes from the website of a Dutch architecture firm (LIAG) describing their acclaimed design of the Princess Máxima Pediatric Oncology Centre in Utrecht, ...
Weaving with design research to study children’s everyday practices in cancer care environments KU Leuven
Children affected by cancer often require repeated hospitalisations. The impact of the material hospital environment on children's well-being receives growing attention across various disciplines. Yet, because of their ‘double vulnerability’ – being children and being ill – young people affected by cancer are less considered as direct research participants. We set out to put the experiences of these children at the centre of attention. To do ...
Parenting, child’s play? Portrayals of ‘good’ parenting (research) in the media KU Leuven
The subject of parenting is widely discussed in the media. The demand to integrate work and family life, the rise of online learning during the COVID-pandemic, and its impact on the parent-child relationship; news reports on parenting are ‘hot’. News, however, is not just a neutral window on the world. News frames issues, individuals and groups in a particular (political, economic, social) way. Often enough, news reports covering research on ...
Toddlers as soul workers: a critical take on emotions and well-being in early childhood education KU Leuven
The common school and its dunces: Parents, homework, and the inheritance of the "vie collective" KU Leuven
The red fish in a shoal of greenish-blue fish? A critique of the biomedical model of autism spectrum disorder KU Leuven
The biomedical model states that autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this article, Joyce Leysen, Delphine Jacobs, and Stefan Ramaekers argue that this is a narrow way of looking at autism and, further, that the biomedical view has implications for our understanding of parenthood and circumscribes the pedagogical agency of parents of children diagnosed with ASD. The authors adopt a critical stance ...
Doing Academia in “COVID-19 Times” KU Leuven
When lockdowns began, time began to take on a quite different quality. For many of us, days were no longer ordered according to our usual schedules: school drop off, making the train, meetings, teaching, scheduling tomorrow and next week, school pick up, social activity, children’s after school activities, and bedtime routines. For some, keeping a routine is something we now have to make an effort to do (though “routine” might still ...