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Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed.; Scarpino, Cassandra, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
This compilation includes programmes which promote language and culture as resources and see them as an added value rather than a challenge for literacy teaching and learning. It also includes programmes designed to support migrants and refugees by equipping them for integration into mainstream society while strengthening their literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Multicultural Education, Immigrants
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Peterson, Helen – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
Sweden has the highest percentage of female university Vice Chancellors in Europe. Some of the factors that have promoted women's representation in senior management in Swedish academia are: political pressure in the form of goals and policies, quantitative target agreements concerning women's representation, top level commitment to gender…
Descriptors: College Administration, Women Administrators, Faculty Workload, Females
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Gadin, Katja Gillander; Weiner, Gaby; Ahlgren, Christina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
A school health promotion project was carried out in an elementary school in Sweden where active participation, gender equality, and empowerment were leading principles. The objective of the study was to understand challenges and to identify social processes of importance for such a project. Focus group interviews were conducted with 6 single-sex…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Sex Fairness, Empowerment, Elementary School Students
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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