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Yugant Patra – Commission for International Adult Education, 2024
Adult literacy is an essential subject to examine given its impact on human development indicators. A significant gap exists as nation-states progress on these indices, especially in developing economies. National governments and international and bilateral development organizations seek to improve adult literacy metrics for the developing world…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
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Pepka Boyadjieva; Petya Ilieva-Trichkova – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The article synthesizes ideas from the capability approach, the embeddedness approach, and Nancy Fraser's three-dimensional scale of justice and develops a theoretical framework for understanding subjective well-being (SWB) as a positive functioning. It also proposes an instrument for measuring SWB and its relationship with participation in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nonformal Education, Participation, Well Being
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Andreas Nuottaniemi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Following substantial investments in battery production and fossil-free steel, a few select places in northern Sweden are currently undergoing rapid economic and cultural changes. The aim of this article is to explore the role language education plays for three different groups of (im)mobile subjects - refugees, labor migrants, and cosmopolitan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Economic Development, Migrant Workers
Tom Harnisch; Rachel Burns; Kelsey Heckert; Kelsey Kunkle; Dustin Weeden – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2024
Public higher education leaders have entered 2024 aided by tailwinds of fiscal stability in many states and a strong national economy, but some challenges of the post-pandemic era remain, including strengthening the value proposition of higher education, building public trust, and meeting changing economic and workforce needs. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Public Colleges