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Accreditation of Prior Learning as a Lever for Lifelong Learning: Lessons Learnt from the New Opportunities Initiative, Portugal
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Carneiro, Roberto, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The New Opportunities Initiative (NOI) is a Portuguese flagship programme to recognise and accredit prior learning (RPL, APL) and to endow low-skilled adults with upper secondary qualifications, which is defined as the minimum entry threshold to the exercise of a full citizenship in a knowledge-rich society. NOI's major achievement has been its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness, Certification
The Foster Care Crisis: Translating Research into Policy and Practice. Child, Youth, and Family Services Series.
Curtis, Patrick A., Ed.; Dale, Grady, Jr., Ed.; Kendall, Joshua C., Ed. – 1999
Noting that one of the biggest obstacles to reforming the foster care system has been the relative unavailability of research data from the field, this book provides an overview of the current state of foster care, describes the special needs of children living in foster care, and identifies policies and practices that address the foster care…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare
Interwoven Lives: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children. Research Monographs in Adolescence.
Whitman, Thomas L.; Borkowski, John G.; Keogh, Deborah A.; Weed, Keri – 2001
This monograph details the Notre Dame Parenting Project, a comprehensive longitudinal study of the lives of adolescent mothers and their children from pregnancy through the first 8 years of life, describing how their respective developmental trajectories are interwoven and linked to the social contexts in which they live. A total of 281…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future?
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change