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Low Skilled Take Their Qualifications "One Step Up"
Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process of validation and recognition and to ensure sufficient investment in and monitoring of the field (European Commission, 2006, 2007; European Parliament, 2008; European Council…
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- 9788864531793
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- x, 109p : ill.
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- 374 LOW l
Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow the supply and demand for young people to meet in the different types of social economy bodies. In particular, it concentrates on the problem of how to bring into line initial u…
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- 9788866558293
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- 218p : ill
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- 330 EDU e
ALTHUSSER AND EDUCATION : reassessing critical education
Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then present…
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- 3
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- 9781350101500
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- ix, 228p.
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- 194 ALT b
ANTHROPOCENE CHILDHOODS : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis
This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and fi…
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- 2
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- 9781350262409
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- ix, 208p.; ill.
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- 372.21 ANT a
Digital disruption in teaching and testing : assessments, big data, and the t…
This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertai…
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- 8
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- 9780367493356
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- xxvi, 248p.
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- 371.334 DIG w
Innovative learning models for prisoners
Prison education should be a top priority issue in most societies. Prison conditions must not infringe human rights and dignity and must offer meaningful treatment programmes in order to support inmates in their rehabilitation and reintegration in society. The use of ICTs within a penitentiary context plays a crucial role in that. The present Volume looks at the learning potential in prisons an…
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- 9788866559245
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- x, 112p. : ill.
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- 374 MAR i
Good health, quality education, sustainable communities, human rights : the s…
The publication collects the contributions presented during the International Symposium of the Italian UNESCO Chairs (CONIUS) entitled Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals 2030, which took place on 16 November 2018 at the University of Florence. The contributions of national and international experts address the Global Aims for Sustainable Development of the UNESCO including Sustainab…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788864538969
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- 292p. : ill.
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- 338.927 GOO g
Digital storytelling for employability
This publication results from the research work undertaken by the partner institutions involved in the KA3-ICT Project Transversal Lifelong Learning Programme, Learn about finding jobs from digital storytelling(143429-2008-LLP-RO-KA3-KA3MP), with the main purpose of enhancing graduates' employability possibilities. For graduating students looking for a job it is perhaps harder than ever to meet…
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- 9788864531816
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- xv, 112p. : ill.
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- 006 MAL d
Comparative adult education and learning : authors and text
This volume explores the topics of adult learning and education through the specific lens of comparative research. The book is divided into four chapters comprising two parts: an analytic essay followed by an anthology of readings from a selection of key texts intended to illustrate different perspectives, theories and/or approaches from varying perspectives in different countries. The book rep…
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- 9788864534220
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- x, 184 p.
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- Studies on adult learning and education
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- 374 SLO c
A glance at work : educational perspectives
The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet these topics are less touched on in the tradition of pedagogical research. The intention of this book is to build a seedbed for reflection on the central position assumed by work…
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- 9788866551874
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- 167p.
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- 331.125 VAN a
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