Dr. Toon Benoot

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• Position: Early Career
• Department: Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy
• Affiliation: University Ghent (Belgium)
• Country: Belgium
• Biographical info: Toon Benoot is a PhD student affiliated with the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. His work focuses on the pedagogical project of care institutions within a context of personalised care for people with disabilities. Hence, his fields of interests are welfare reform, theories of social justice and the conceptualisation of autonomy and in(ter)dependency.

Research interests:
social work and social pedagogical practices, conceptualisations of autonomy and dependency and the development of citizenship and welfare rights

Thematic Groups:
Empowerment and Collective Capabilities Health and Disability Human Rights Participatory Methods

Regional Network:
European Network