Lifelong learning on individual accounts: The impact of individual learning accounts on workers of low educational levels

Education level, underemployment, and workers’ health

10.20944/preprints202104.0591.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nan Li ◽

Dan Wu

Keyword(s):

Health Inequality ◽

Economic Effect ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Education Level ◽

Educational Levels ◽

Protection Mechanism ◽

Low Education ◽

The Difference ◽

The Impact ◽

Level Group

Under the dual background of underemployment and health inequality, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of education level on underemployed workers’ health based on CLDS2016 data. The results show that underemployment is significantly related to the decline of self-rated health, increased depression tendency, and morbidity in a certain period. The results indicate that underemployment can significantly reduce the health level of workers in the low education level group and the high education level group. However, it has no significant impact on workers’ health in the middle education level group; even if we change the measurement method of indicators and consider endogeneity, the research conclusion is still robust. Moreover, this kind of health inequality mainly comes from the difference in economic effect and leisure effect of underemployment to workers with different educational levels. This paper provides empirical support for increasing the labor protection mechanism of underemployed people and reducing the health inequality caused by educational level differences.

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The Impact of the Hazard Correlation between Risk Factors and Diabetes

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15102213 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (10) ◽

pp. 2213

Author(s):

Huan-Cheng Chang ◽

Mei-Chin Wang ◽

Meng-Hao Chen ◽

Hung-Chang Liao ◽

Ya-huei Wang

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Body Fat ◽

Environmental Variables ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Second Hand Smoke ◽

Male Population ◽

Educational Levels ◽

Healthy Behavior ◽

Higher Educational ◽

The Impact

This study examined the occurrence of diabetes and sustainable risk factors in residents aged 30 and above of a community in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. The main purpose of this research was to explore the correlations between related variables and the occurrence of diabetes. The demographic variables, health exam variables, healthy behavior variables, and environmental variables had obvious impacts on the risk of diabetes. As age increased, the risk of developing the disease also increased; higher educational levels lowered risk, while unemployment raised it. Also, analysis of the health exam variables showed that abnormal BMIs, waist-hip ratios, and body fat percentages had significant impacts on individuals’ risk of diabetes. Moreover, it was found that smoking affected the risk of having diabetes: smokers, particularly male smokers, had a relatively higher risk of developing the disease. Lastly, the results showed that exposure to second-hand smoke did not have a significant effect on the diabetes proportion in the male population. However, a significantly higher proportion of females who had been exposed to second-hand smoke had diabetes.

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Personal and social training as a part of class teachers’ lifelong learning

Acta Educationis Generalis ◽

10.2478/atd-2018-0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 24-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zuzana Geršicová ◽

Silvia Barnová

Keyword(s):

Social Development ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Personal Development ◽

Family Background ◽

Further Education ◽

Training Methods ◽

Pedagogical Training ◽

Before And After ◽

Post Test ◽

The Impact

Abstract Introduction: The presented paper deals with the issues of the work of class teachers and their further education in the field of personal and social training. The main goal of the research was to find out about changes in personal and social development after the realization of social-pedagogical training. Methods: On the level of personal development, the authors were interested in the field of values and attitudes. On the level of social development, they focused on the changes in communication and opinion scales. The changes in the above fields were measured by means of a pre-test and a post-test which were administered before and after the realization of the training. Results: In the participants of the realized research, the research team, to a certain extent, succeeded in reducing prejudice and beliefs and the participants learnt about the necessity of considering students’ individual abilities and specific environmental influences on their behavior and manifestations at school. On the level of opinions, there was a shift towards a stronger belief in the significance of the impact of the environment and the family background on students’ behaviour and their personality traits. Discussion: The presented data are the results of a pilot probe and have brought initial insights related to the presented issues for the purposes of a longer and deeper research, which is in the phase of its realization. Limitations: As the project was realized with ten groups of teachers showing a deep interest in participating in it, it is not our ambition to generalize the obtained results; nevertheless, we find them interesting and inspiring. Conclusions: Along with knowledge from pedagogy and psychology, class teachers need a huge amount of creativity, ideas, techniques and methods, which can promote the development of students’ value orientation. The authors can see a clear perspective for teachers’ lifelong learning here

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Envisioning a McGill University lifelong learning and living (L4) community

International Journal of Whole Person Care ◽

10.26443/ijwpc.v5i1.168 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ruth Allan Rigby ◽

Marlene Chan ◽

April L. Colosimo

Keyword(s):

Lifelong Learning ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Well Being ◽

World Health ◽

Individual Student ◽

The Usa ◽

Intellectual Capacity ◽

The Impact

Lifelong learning and cognitive resilience are integral to a changing 21st century education paradigm for learners of all ages, as they are for health and well being of the individual student and wider community. Neuroscience in particular is continually making inroads on the impact that learning has on the brain and the interrelationships between body and mind that help to maintain physical and intellectual capacity over a lifetime. There is a long-standing community dedicated to sustainable lifelong learning on campus, the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL). There are also worldwide efforts underway to promote lifelong learning in the context of age friendly cities under the auspices of UNESCO and the World Health Organization. Moreover, the international network of Age Friendly Universities, Lifelong Learning Institutes and over 200 University Based Retirement Communities (UBRCs) in the USA offer resources, guidelines, operating principles and research for building unique and innovative local responses to the changing demographics, increased cultural diversity and technological changes in education futures for learners in a given community. The poster will highlight national and international research initiatives and networks to enhance well-being and mental health through lifelong learning.Different L4 community options will be explored, building on MCLL’s peer learning experience over the past 27 years. It will reflect opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with university and wider Montreal community stakeholders, including health care professionals, caregivers, and educators.The poster will demonstrate that a lifelong learning approach to whole person care has the potential to be transformative.

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Sustainable development through lifelong learning: A good practice about women entrepreneurship from Turkey

Andragoske studije ◽

10.5937/andstud2002201c ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 201-220

Author(s):

Sadife Çinkir

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Good Practice ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Active Involvement ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Directorate General ◽

Age Appropriate ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Women form half of the world's population, but the same cannot be said for their active participation in economic development. Sustainable, strong economies can be achieved through equally active involvement in the process by developing or keeping up to date the skills of individuals in society. This paper focuses on women's contribution to sustainable development as entrepreneurs through Lifelong Learning. The paper consists of two sections. The first section discusses the relationship between accessibility to digital age-appropriate education and sustainable development in Lifelong Learning. The second section is a good practice of the impact of the "Women First in Entrepreneurship" project on developing women's entrepreneurship. It covers the reasons for the project and its implementation process, outputs, and impact. To increase women's participation in the labor market as part of sustainable development in today's economy, the project, which began in 10 pilot provinces, is currently being implemented across Turkey. The project has been implemented under the coordination of the Turkish Directorate General for Lifelong Learning since 2015. The General Directorate of Lifelong Learning is the highest policymaking authority in Turkey to strengthen the adult education system.

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Spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research

Community-based Learning and Social Movements ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447343257.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-56

Author(s):

Marjorie Mayo

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Public Services ◽

Popular Education ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Education ◽

The Impact ◽

Informal Settings

Governments have supported popular education initiatives in the past. And so have community organisations and social movements. But the spaces for popular education have been shrinking in recent times, as part of the impact of neo-liberal globalisation. Public services have been increasingly subjected to pressures from market forces, pressures that have impacted on community-based education and lifelong learning. Despite these wider pressures, educators have continued to find spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research, however, working across sectors in a variety of contexts. The chapter includes examples of innovatory approaches in both formal settings and informal settings (such as libraries and community centres) including examples from both Northern and Southern American contexts.

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Product Newness, Low Competition, Recent Technology, and Export Orientation as Predictors for Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11205818 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (20) ◽

pp. 5818

Author(s):

José Pedro Carreón-Gutiérrez ◽

José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez

Keyword(s):

Financial Capital ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ◽

Educational Levels ◽

Export Orientation ◽

Hierarchical Regression Model ◽

Entrepreneurial Growth ◽

Firm Exports ◽

Recursive Residuals ◽

The Impact

This study examines the contribution of how product newness, low competition, recent technology, and export orientation affect entrepreneurial growth aspirations moderated by financial capital. Based on a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) sample of 512 Mexican new entrepreneurs, we use a hierarchical regression model to study the independent and interaction effects between these variables, and we apply a Chow breakpoint test and a CUSUMSQ (cumulative sum of squares of recursive residuals) test to analyze structural change and robustness. Our results suggest that achieving higher educational levels, acquiring recent technology, and product newness slightly increase the entrepreneurial growth ambition of the firm, and that financial capital positively moderates the impact of product newness and recent technology on growth aspirations. Besides this, we show that the interaction effect of financial capital with low competition and export activity on their growth aspirations is not crucial, and business angles tend to finance, primarily when the firm exports new products and services are facing a reduced number of competitors.

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