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Salmivaara, Virva; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
This article describes the implementation and lessons learned from MEGE--Multicultural Encounters, Growth and Entrepreneurship, an educational project aimed at better utilizing the expertise of migrant communities and international professionals in Finland, to foster entrepreneurship among those who migrate or return to the country from abroad.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Partnerships in Education, Expertise, Immigrants
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Shan, Hongxia; Peikazadi, Nasim; Rahemtulla, Zahida; Wilbur, Amea; Sawkins, Tanis; Goossen, Rachel – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
Employment training services are provided for immigrants to integrate them into the Canadian labour market. Evaluated on short-term labour market outcomes, these programs typically focus on enhancing individuals' employability, while risking naturalizing and reproducing the dominant social and cultural order. "Entry to Hospitality Careers for…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Females, Feminism, Immigrants
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Busko, Mariia; Huk, Liudmyla; Kuzan, Halyna; Vilkhovchenko, Nadiia – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the research of special features of foreigners' integration and language learning in Canada as an integral part of adult education. The paper outlines a complex of basic scientific approaches such as system, structural and functional, andragogical, axiological, intercultural, and competency-based approaches. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ukrainian, English (Second Language)
McHugh, Margie; Doxsee, Catrina – Migration Policy Institute, 2018
For the past 50 years, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes provided through state adult education systems have been the primary means of meeting English acquisition for immigrants and refugees, and, to a limited extent, their integration needs. Yet these systems meet only a fraction of the total need for all adult education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Wittich, Walter; Watanabe, Donald H.; Scully, Lizabeth; Bergevin , Martin – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2013
Introduction: In the Province of Quebec, Canada, it is estimated that only about one-third of working-age adults with visual impairments are part of the workforce, despite ongoing efforts of rehabilitation and government agencies to integrate these individuals. The present article describes the development and adaptation of a pre-employment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Visual Impairments, Employment Programs
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Hayward, Maria; U-Mackey, Alice – Intercultural Education, 2013
Migrants and refugees settling permanently in a new country face significant social, linguistic and cultural challenges. However, they also bring intercultural strengths and skills which, if acknowledged and enhanced, can support successful settlement and inclusion in a pluralistic society. This paper describes the underpinning rationale and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Land Settlement, Foreign Countries
Sheppard, Thomas H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Training naval combat pilots is expensive and time consuming, it follows that attrition from flight training is costly to the government and traumatic for the individual. Flight training is considered high-risk training, and therefore strictly voluntary. Voluntary withdrawal from naval flight training is the largest unexplained reason for Student…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Persistence, Flight Training, Case Studies
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Knijnik, Jorge; Tavares, Otavio – Educational Review, 2012
The Second Half Program (SHP) is an educational sports program running in Brazil. It began in 2003 and was one of the Olympic educational proposals described in the Rio 2016 Olympics bid. Using sport as a tool, the SHP aims to deliver moral education and to promote citizenship in order to counteract "social exclusion" and "social…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Sutton, Roy – Journal of Educators Online, 2014
Many factors affect students selecting a university to attend and almost as many factors that can present challenges once they enroll and begin attending classes. Once they start taking courses, the next challenge is completing them, and this can be particularly taxing for online students. In the case of online universities, quality assessment…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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Smith, Erica; Smith, Andy – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether the availability of qualifications through work-based traineeships in Australia assists social inclusion. Design/methodology/approach: Industry case studies, of the finance and cleaning industries, were undertaken as part of a national research project on quality in traineeships. The two…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Clair, Alicia Ann; Memmott, Jenny – American Music Therapy Association, 2008
In this comprehensively updated second edition, written by Alicia Ann Clair and Jenny Memmott the extraordinary benefits of music therapy for older adults are detailed. "Therapeutic Uses of Music with Older Adults" not only examines these benefits but also clarifies the reasons that music is beneficial. This important book shows both informal and…
Descriptors: Music, Social Integration, Dementia, Quality of Life
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Gunstone, Andrew – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
In 1991, the Australian Parliament implemented a formal 10-year process of reconciliation. The aim of the process was to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by the end of 2000. The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) was established to promote the process. The process had three broad goals: improving education, addressing…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Community Involvement, Community Coordination, Community Planning
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Kagitcibasi, Cigdem; Goksen, Fatos; Gulgoz, Sami – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005
This study addresses the impact of functional adult literacy on the empowerment of women in the absence of formal schooling. It examines whether the effects of functional literacy are exclusively content specific or whether there are gains going beyond the obvious benefits and extending to other spheres of everyday functioning, such as…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Females