Publicaties

Meer dan 160 academies in Vlaanderen bieden op meer dan 1 500 lesplaatsen aan meer dan 200 000 leerlingen de kans om zich te verdiepen in de kunsten. Dat zijn, zeker in internationaal perspectief, indrukwekkende cijfers. Maar het succes van deze kunstopleidingen buit het leerplichtonderwijs heeft een keerzijde. De academies ervaren vandaag een grote administratieve druk, hier en daar wachtlijsten voor inschrijvingen, en ze botsen op hun limieten ...

This thesis is about young people's livelihood making in contemporary South Africa. In a first exploration of youth at work, I use the concept of employability as analytical lens to evaluate young people's engagements with work in the labour market through the development of a multidimensional employability index. This quantitative perspective clearly shows the impact of lived realities at the individual, household, and neighbourhood level on ...

Many voices in policy and practice have emphasized, on many different occasions, the importance of arts and cultural education for the very young. A mélange of arguments are given in this regard, primarily stressing the positive effects and impacts of this type of education. If arts and cultural education is considered important because it leads to specific valuable outcomes, it is important to have a clear overview of what these outcomes are. ...

Employability, understood as the ability to gain, sustain, and move on in employment, depends on and shapes circumstances in a young person’s lifeworld. In a Post‐apartheid South Africa individual attributes as well as vulnerabilities in the young person’s home and neighbourhood all impact on labour outcomes. We develop a multidimensional youth employability index to capture this complexity following the Alkire and Foster method. We use the ...