NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Piper, Laurence; Dahlquist, Karl; Sunnemark, Fredrik – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
While long part of vocational and professional training, forms of practice-based education like Work-integrated learning (WIL) are now spreading to academic disciplines like Political Science. The pedagogical entailed in WIL is that student learning requires the theoretical knowledge and practice of both the classroom and the workplace, and…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Social Systems, Political Science, Masters Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Brannlund, Annica; Nordlander, Erica; Strandh, Mattias – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
There is extensive research pointing to the positive effects of education in the form of labour market outcomes. These outcomes are vital when evaluating education; there are however additional outcomes of education that might also be important for quality of life. From this point of view, education could affect non-market areas such as democracy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Role of Education, Employment Potential
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Vaez, Marjan; Kristenson, Margareta; Laflamme, Lucie – Social Indicators Research, 2004
This study compares health status and quality of life assessments of first-year university students with those of their same-age working counterparts. Subjects and materials for each group were gathered in 1999 from two cross-sectional data sets from the Swedish region of Ostergotland, covering males and females aged 20-34 years. Subjects'…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Intervention, Gender Differences, Quality of Life