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Morten Thomsen; Arjen van Dalen; Silje Kristiansen; David Nicolas Hopmann – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2024
As research of benefits and detriments of pesticides and biocides progresses, people's knowledge needs to be updated. This study takes an audience perspective on how practitioners may improve communication. Through online focus group discussions of how and why Danes acquire knowledge of pesticides and biocides, we find that focusing on improving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poisoning, Manufacturing Industry, Chemistry
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Tikkanen, Tarja; Nissinen, Kari – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
This study explored drivers of participation in job-related lifelong learning (LLL) among low-educated mature-aged employees and compared them across four Nordic countries. Workplaces can be low-threshold, effective arenas for development of their skills in work and learning. The paper builds on the Bounded Agency Model and theories of learning…
Descriptors: Job Training, Lifelong Learning, Work Environment, Learning Motivation
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Mariager-Anderson, Kristina; Cort, Pia; Thomsen, Rie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
"Education, education, education" has been a mantra in transnational and national policies since the mid-1990s: everybody has to take part in learning activities throughout their lives in order to stay employable. Hereby lifelong learning establishes a dividing practice between active and inactive lifelong learners constituting the…
Descriptors: Semiskilled Workers, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation, Self Determination