scholarly journals Reconstructing Learners’ Understanding of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1 (15)) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Ani Manukyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
Universal Culture

At present, when interaction between civilizations turns to be more and more intensive, integration into world life and universal culture becomes essential for the modern competent citizen. As educators we need to make fundamental changes in the educational system which will enhance the students’ mutual understanding and social integration, develop their intercultural competence and tolerance towards other nations, as well as encourage lifelong learning and freedom of movement. For students to be competitive in the local and international labour market, it is necessary to revise various educational issues, such as aims and objectives of teaching, modernisation and improvement of textbooks and curricula making them less theoretical and more practical. The paper attempts to reveal current crucial problems in the sphere of education and suggests some differentiated approaches to learning.

Labour Market Returns to Graduates’ International Experience: Exploring Cross-Country Variation in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Jacob ◽  
Michael Kühhirt ◽  
Margarida Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Early Labour ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
Graduate Unemployment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe potential benefits of increased international experience abound, ranging from enriching cultural understanding to an improvement of language skills and intercultural competence. At the same time, empirical evidence is mixed, particularly with regards to how well international experience translates into individual returns on the labour market. This article examines the association between studying abroad and early labour market outcomes in a comparative perspective aiming to shed light on why labour market returns differ across countries. We expect labour market returns to vary with specific country characteristics such as demand for international experience and competition among graduates at labour market entry. In our empirical analyses, we use data from 13 European countries that provide information on graduates’ early labour market outcomes. We find a large variation in the impact of studying abroad on both wages and attaining a higher service class position. Generally, the labour market returns to international experience are larger in countries in Eastern and Southern Europe with poorer university quality, higher graduate unemployment, and fewer students abroad.

scholarly journals Latino Youth and Machismo: Working Towards a More Complex Understanding of Marginalized Masculinities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Meza Opazo
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Latino Youth ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Social Marginalization ◽  
Integration Data ◽  
Sociological Studies

Academic and mainstream discourses have discussed Latino youth machismo in overwhelmingly negative terms, defining it as misogynistic, reckless, and violent. Even the sociological studies that have conceptualized machismo as a byproduct of social marginalization posit it as inherently destructive. Some emerging American literature has sought to consider the positive aspects of Latino masculinity through explorations of familism and caballerismo, but these have been set in opposition to, as opposed to a part of, machismo. This study aims to address post-structuralist calls for a more positive exploration of machismo by considering the ways in which Latino youth in Toronto conceive of their masculinities in relation to familism and social integration. Data emerging from focus group discussions suggest that these youth rely on machismo to assist in their integration into the Canadian labour market, their survival in the streets of their communities, and that there is a gendered basis to their adherence to familism.

scholarly journals Är lönebidragsanställningar en demokratisering av museer?

1970 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Cecilia Rodéhn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Wage Subsidies ◽  
Political Implications

This paper investigates whether the labour market measure known as wage subsidies, coupled with lifelong learning, contributes to a more democratic museum. The paper begins with an investigation of the historical and political implications of wage subsidies at the Jamtli county museum in Östersund, Sweden. The paper continues by exploring whether lifelong learning and learning at the workplace contribute to further learning and rehabilitation of the persons employed via such labour market measures. The paper concludes with a discussion of whether lifelong learning and labour market measures can contribute to further preservation and mediation of cultural heritage and, furthermore, whether if they can make museums more democratic and accessible. The research was carried out at Jamtli during the spring of 2010, and is based on qualitative interviews and archival studies in the museum in question.

TRANSFORMATION FEATURES OF VALUE-NORMATIVE COMPONENT OF THE MODERN SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
N. Alaverdyan
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
Sociocultural Values

The difficult process of combining old and new realities creates a precondition for the formation of a dichotomous worldview and dual social positions. The article analizes the model of traditional sociocultural values and society interaction. Sociocultural values provide interaction with the society by the means of feedback as a result of which the central cultural circle has value of collecting, saving, reproducting, handing over and programming functions. Modern society becomes more and more piuralistic and alternative and creates such moral-psycological atmosphere, when a person does not only feel cultural inferiority, but also becomes more adaptable to new attitudes and lifestyles. Of course, all this serves as a precondition for the society to function and reproduce, because the dynamism of life, the strengthening of intergration tendencies, the spread of telecommunications make life more comfortable, uniform and accessible. However, in modern society there are large masses of peple who do not interact with traditional culture. Modern civilization has created new educational system, which even teaches masses the besics of using new technology is not able to deak with educational issues and convey the meaning and content of the culture and morality of great historical problems- though being accesable and mass.

Ontology-Based Multimodal Language Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Miloš Milutinović ◽  
Vukašin Stojiljković ◽  
Saša Lazarević
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Multimodal Language ◽  
Computing Infrastructure

L2 language learning is an activity that is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and learner-centric in order to support lifelong learning. Applications for learning are constrained by multiple technical and educational requirements and should support multiple platforms and multiple approaches to learning. This chapter investigates the possibility of applying ontology-based, dynamically generated learning objects implemented on a cloud computing infrastructure in order to satisfy these requirements. Previous work on using mobile learning objects is used as a starting point in an attempt to design a system that will preserve all of the advantages of utilizing learning objects, while eliminating any flaws and maximizing compatibility with existing systems. A model of a highly modular, flexible, multiplatform language learning system is presented along with some implementation remarks and advices for future implementation.

scholarly journals Smart Technological Learning Conceptual model

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Cakula Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Technological Learning ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Principal Directions

Lifelong learning in one of most important aspects of nowdays educational system, which is understood as continuation of the previously acquired education and the enrichment of the professional skills according to the demands of the vocation in question. It is very important to figure out the most effective technological solutions and principal directions for implementing work-based learning strategies in the learning process.  New smart learning individually oriented methodology has been developed based on human individual perception for fast growing information and big data society.  

scholarly journals Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social Risks

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kopecký
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The Individual

Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social RisksThe article deals with the relevance of the work of Foucault to critical analysis of the political concept of lifelong learning that currently dominates. This concept relates to the field of adult education and learning. The article makes reference to the relatively late incorporation of Foucault's work within andragogy. It shows the relevance of Foucault's concept of a subject situated within power relations where the relation between knowledge and power plays a key role. The analysis of changing relations between knowledge and power will help us to understand important features of neoliberal public policies. The motif of human capital is key. The need to continually adapt to the changing economic and social conditions follows on from the neoliberal interpretation of learning, and the individual is to blame for failure on the labour market or in life generally.

scholarly journals The incompatibility of local economic prosperity and migrants’ social integration: evidence from the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiling Wang
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Arrival Rate ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
The Social

Abstract This paper investigates the effects of the conditions of local labour markets on the social networks of immigrants, with an emphasis on co-ethnic contact and contact with people native to the locality. This study focuses on the case of immigrants in the Netherlands. For this case, I derived and empirically tested a job and residential search model. I found that a high job arrival rate and large wage differences between the ethnic labour market and the host labour market both correlate with immigrants developing stronger co-ethnic networks and weaker native networks as well as with immigrants choosing to live in more ethnically concentrated areas. These findings suggest that local economic prosperity does not necessarily beget social integration: in this case study, immigrants spontaneously assimilated less into the host society during a good economic period.

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