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The ALADIN Online Alert is a joint ALADIN initiative, produced bimonthly by the UIL Library and CDÉACF, with input from additional ALADIN members from all over the world. Its goal is to share recent online and full-text information and documents on adult learning.

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Adult Learning

International

Making a Difference through Adult Basic Education
Source: COABE, 04/04/2016

Migration research is a force for inclusion
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 26/05/2016

Transformative Learning Through Art in Adult Education: Teaching the Concept of Time in Scientific Literacy / Georgios Giannoukos, Vasilios Hioctour, Ioannis Stergiou, Thomas Georgas
Source: International Journal of Advancement in Education and Social Sciences, 2015

Video collection of training in community based research / Jingsi Jin, Crystal Tremblay, Leila Harris
Source: UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education; University of British Columbia. Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 2016

Asia and the Pacific

Empowering adolescent girls and young women through the provision of comprehensive sexuality education and a safe learning environment in Nepal
Source: UNESCO Office Kathmandu; UNFPA; UN Women, 2016

Privatization, Commercialization and Low Government Financing in Education: Infringing on the Right to Education of Filipinos: An Alternative Report submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Source: The Civil Society Network for Education Reforms, 2016

Training manual for facilitators: Using soft skills in non-formal education / Dr. Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay, Ms Priti Sharma
Source: Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2016

Europe and North America

3 ways to support refugees / Tania Berman
Source: EPALE, 28/04/2016

Adopting a Summer Learning Approach for Increased Impact: a YALSA Position Paper
Source: Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), 22/04/2016

Adult education and reflexive activation: prioritising recognition, respect, dignity and capital accumulation / Séamus Ó Tuama
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

Age, Ageing and Skills: Results from the Survey of Adult Skills / Marco Paccagnella
Source: OECD Education Working Papers, no 132, 2016

Att stödja vuxnas lärande: En observationsstudie kring stöd inom svensk vuxenutbildning / Jessica Petersson
Source: 2015
Lang: SWE

Away from the black place - a teacher’s journey
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 21/04/2016

Bestandsaufnahme zur Bildungsbeteiligung von spät eingereisten Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen: Schlussbericht / Heidi Stutz, Jolanda Jäggi, Livia Bannwart, Melania Rudin, Severin Bischof, Tanja Guggenbühl, Thomas Oesch, Jürg Guggisberg
Source: SVEB - De, 01/2016
Lang: GER

Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals
Source: U.S. Department of Education, 09/05/2016

Building bridges in ex-Yugoslavian adult education
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 21/03/2016

Choosing our future: a story of opportunity in America / Irwin Kirsch, Henry Braun, Mary Louise Lennon, Anita Sands
Source: Educational Testing Service, 2016

Dynamique interactionnelle au sein d’une formation privilégiant la participation et la création / Stéphane Allaire, Christophe Reffay
Source: Revue internationale du CRIRES : innover dans la tradition de Vygotsky, vol. 3, no 1, 2015

Europe lacks a refugee strategy
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 21/04/2016

European agenda for adult learning report: Taking the Next Steps
Source: AONTAS, 28/04/2016

Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks, v. II: National and regional cases
Source: UIL; European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Greece); European Training Foundation (Italy), 2015

How can adult learning help to address gender inequality? / Dr. Vida A. Mohorčič Špolar
Source: European Commission, 08/03/2016

Informal learning processes of migrants in the civil society: a transnational perspective / Pauliina Alenius
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

Innovation: Dossier
Source: Éducation Permanente, no 2, 2016
Lang: FRE GER

L'autoformation dans les bibliothèques : oser le Pair-à-Pair / Silvae
Source: Bibliosession, 07/01/2016

Le numérique pour l'apprentissage des langues : outils, modalités, expérimentations
Source: Focus, 04/2016

Like a rolling stone : non-traditional spaces of adult education / Emilio Lucio-Villegas
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

MOOC et e-learning, quelle différence ? / Christine Vaufrey
Source: LinkedIn, 16/02/2016

No Educational Experience Should Be an Island: How Low-Income Students’ Access to and Persistence in Postsecondary Education is Restricted in the Very Programs they Need the Most / Lauren Walitzer
Source: Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 05/2016

Non-traditional participants in adult education and learning / António Fragoso, Ewa Kurantowicz
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 2, 2016

O kondycji refleksji andragogicznej w świetle 20 tomów „Rocznika Andragogicznego” / Hanna Solarczyk-Szwec
Source: Andragogy Yearbook, no 21, 2014
Lang: POL

Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs, Transformation / Fengchun Miao, Sanjaya Mishra and Rory McGreal, Eds.
Source: UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (Perspectives on open and distance learning), 2016

Opinion: Adult education is a 'feminine' sector – could that be why we don’t have enough money? / Gina Ebner
Source: European Commission, 08/03/2016
Lang: ENG FRE GER ITA POL SPA

Overview: refugees and adult education in Europe
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 22/04/2016

Reclaiming the emancipatory potential of adult education: Honneth’s critical theory and the struggle for recognition / Ted Fleming
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

Reentry Education Framework: Guidelines for Providing High-Quality Education for Adults Involved in the Criminal Justice System / Michelle Tolbert
Source: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), 01/2016

Refugee integration: the (smart) way to do it?
Source: European Association for the Education of Adults, 21/04/2016

Social Media Adoption in Adult Education: Administrators’ Experience / Jolita Šliogerienė, Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė, Julia Fotheringham, Kirsty J Palfreyman
Source: Public Policy and Administration, vol. 13, no 4, 2014

Adult Literacy

International

Adults with Low Proficiency in Literacy or Numeracy / Anke Grotlüschen, David Mallows, Stephen Reder, John Sabatini
Source: OECD Education Working Papers, no 131, 13/04/2016

Infographics: Illiteracy worldwide
Source: Alumniportal Deutschland, 04/2016

Literacy Education Reform: White Paper
Source: International Literacy Association, 2016

Europe and North America

Annual Statistical Report 2014-15
Source: ProLiteracy, 2016

Closing the numeracy gap: an urgent assignment for Ontario / Graham Orpwood, Emily Sandford Brown
Source: 10/2015

Education & Skills Today: Making literacy everybody’s business / Andreas Schleicher
Source: OECD Education & Skills Today, 14/04/2016

EPALE LongReads: What happened when funding for health literacy in Canada dried up? / Linda Shohet
Source: European Commission, 07/04/2016

European Declaration of the Right to Literacy| European Literacy Policy Network (ELINET)
Source: 04/2016
Lang: BUL CRO CZE DUT ENG EST FINN FRE GER GRE HUN ICE ITA LIT NOR POR ROM RUS SLO SPA SWE

How gendered literacies are empowering learners / Vicky Duckworth
Source: European Commission, 08/03/2016

L’illettrisme est très coûteux pour l’entreprise mais il est possible d’y remédier par la formation
Source: Débat Formation, 29/04/2016

Literacy mediation and literacy learning in community-based organisations for young people in a situation of precarity in Québec / Virginie Thériault
Source: Thesis, Lancaster University, 2015

National Literacy Trust Hubs: a place-based response to tackling low literacy
Source: National Literacy Trust, 05/2016

Rapport « Citoyens d’une société numérique: Accès, Littératie, Médiations, Pouvoir d’agir: pour une nouvelle politique d’inclusion »
Source: Conseil national du numérique, 2016
Lang: ENG FRE

Strategies to Enhance Numeracy Skills / Andrew Pleasant, Megan Rooney, Catina O’Leary, Laurie Myers, Rima Rudd
Source: National Academy of Medicine (Discussion Paper), 05/2016

What does age have to do with skills proficiency?
Source: OECD, Adult Skills In Focus, no 3, 04/2016
Lang: ENG FRE

What does low proficiency in literacy really mean?
Source: OECD, Adult Skills In Focus, no 2, 03/2016
Lang: ENG FRE

Lifelong Learning

International

Aid to education stagnates, jeopardising global targets
Source: UNESCO; Global Education Monitoring (Policy paper, no 25), 05/2016

Conference report: 2nd International Conference on Learning Cities: Building Sustainable Learning Cities, 28-30 September 2015, Mexico City
Source: UIL, 2016

Mission impossible? Creating a monitoring framework for Education for Global Citizenship / Amy Skinner
Source: DVV International, 2015
Lang: ENG FRE SPA

Montrer l’exemple: le monitoring de l’Éducation à la citoyenneté mondiale comme processus d’apprentissage citoyen / Daniel Baril
Source: Institut de coopération pour l'éducation des adultes (ICEA), 22/04/2016

New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning through Technology / The Boston Consulting Group
Source: World Economic Forum, 03/2016

No more excuses: Provide education to all forcibly displaced people
Source: UNESCO, Global Éducation Monitoring (Policy paper, no 26), 05/2016

Self-construction and social transformation: lifelong, lifewide and life-deep learning / Paul Bélanger
Source: UIL, 2016

The utopia of lifelong learning : an intellectual history of UNESCO's humanistic approach to education, 1945-2015 / Maren Elfert
Source: University of British Columbia, 03/2016

Asia and the Pacific

MOOCs and Educational Challenges around Asia and Europe / Bowon Kim (Ed)
Source: KNOU Press, 2015

Europe and North America

Academic success of mature students in higher education: a Portuguese case study / Lucília Santos, Joana Bago, Ana V. Baptista, Susana Ambrósio, Henrique M.A.C. Fonseca, Helena Quintas
Source: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

Accès à la formation continue des publics sous-représentés: étude allemande sur des entreprises atypiques
Source: Grundkompetenzen, 16/03/2016

Americans, Lifelong Learning and Technology / John B. Horrigan
Source: Pew Research Center, 22/03/2016

Contribution du débat no 5: sur la recherche en éducation permanente/populaire
Source: Collectif formation société - CFS asbl, 2015

Impact of training in the elderly: the case of the Open Classroom for the Elderly / José Luis Rodríguez-Díez
Source: ReSed, no 3, 2015

Le dispositif d'enquête Defis, un nouveau regard sur la formation en entreprise / Jean-Marie Dubois, Isabelle Marion-Vernoux, Edmond Noack
Source: Bref, no 344, Céreq - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications, 2016

Online Media Guide spreads critical media literacy
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 13/05/2016

Sisterhood against hate
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 21/04/2016

Study circles: equal meeting place for refugees and locals
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 21/04/2016

Technical and Vocational Education and Training

International

Education, skills, and labor market outcomes: Results from large-scale adult skills surveys in urban areas in 12 countries / Viviana V. Roseth, Alexandria Valerio, Marcela Gutiérrez
Source: World Bank, 2016

Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy connecting the labor and education sectors / Wendy V. Cunningham, Paula Villasenor
Source: Oxford University Press, 2016

Integrating core work skills into TVET systems: Six country case studies / Laura Brewer, Paul Comyn
Source: International Labour Organization, 2015

Orientation, formations, insertion : quel avenir pour l’enseignement professionnel? Revue documentaire
Source: Cnesco, 05/2016

UNESCO TVET strategy 2016-2021: report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC virtual conference, 28 September to 03 October 2015
Source: UNESCO, 2016

Africa

Developmental TVET Rhetoric In-Action: The White Paper for Post-School Education and Training in South Africa / Akoojee
Source: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, vol. 3, no 1, 2016

Asia and the Pacific

Enhancing relevance in TVET: review of progress in the Asia-Pacific since 2012
Source: UNESCO Office Bangkok, 2016

Europe and North America

14 ways to tackle skill mismatch / Gary Horsley
Source: Skillset and match (Cedefop’s magazine promoting learning for work), issue 7, 05/2016

Briefing note: Mainstreaming VET policies addressing early leaving from education and training
Source: Cedefop, 2016

Career education that works: an economic analysis using the British Cohort Study / Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel, Christian Percy
Source: Journal of Education and Work, 27/04/2016

European sectoral trends: the next decade
Source: Cedefop, 2016

Europeanization in VET Policy as a Process of Reshaping the Educational Space
Source: Loogma, 2016

Examining work-education intersections: the production of learning reals in and through practice / Kerry Harman
Source: Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, vol. 7, no 1, 2016

Formons-nous à une profession qui n’existe pas? / Mylène Leroux
Source: Formation et profession, vol. 24, no 1, 2016

From cargo ship to catering? Feasible integration paths in Italy
Source: Elm - European lifelong learning magazine, 22/04/2016

Getting skills right: Assessing and anticipating changing skill needs
Source: OECD, 2016

Implementing the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) at National Level: Some Insights from the PEN Leonardo Project
Source: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, vol. 3, no 1, 2016

Three-Capital Approach to the Study of Young People who Excel in Vocational Occupations: A Case of WorldSkills Competitors and Entrepreneurship / Maia Chankseliani, Susan James Relly
Source: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, vol. 3, no 1, 2016

Unequal access to job-related learning: evidence from the adult education survey
Source: Cedefop research paper, no 52, 2016

Validation of Non-formal MOOC-based Learning: An Analysis of Assessment and Recognition Practices in Europe / Gabi Witthaus, Andreia Inamorato dos Santos, Mark Childs, Anne-Christin Tannhäuser, Grainne Conole, Bernard Nkuyubwatsi, Yves Punie
Source: European Comission, 02/2016

Vocational and professional education and training in Switzerland: Facts and figures 2016
Source: VPET Policy SERI, 2016

Online Alert 10
June 2016
Courtesy of the UIL Library
 
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