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  1. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics Special Issue on Education and Migration

    …igrants? Should educational institutions prepare the next generation to welcome and cohabit with newcomers? Should education cultivate virtues that are conducive to the fulfilment of the obligations of receiving societies to migrants and refugees, and, if so, which virtues? How should the school curriculum address migration? For example, is it desirable that history classes avoid sedentary biases and insist more on the fact that migration has been…

  2. Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

    …mework to understand a PAR process in Spain in 2014. We have selected this example because it combines research and teaching and demonstrates an innovative approach to PAR methods based on participatory digital technologies. Also, because different participants from all across Europe took part in an interesting and multicultural exchange. Our aim is not to conduct an exhaustive evaluation of the research process; rather, we want to explore the dif…

  3. Call for Papers: Health and Poverty – 2020 Salzburg Conference

    …erence folder, a guided city tour on Friday, coffe breaks, two lunch snacks and the conference dinner on Thursday. Students as well as particpiants from countries classified as low-income or lower-middle income economies by the World Bank pay a subsidized fee of 75€. Conference website: https://www.poverty-conference.org/…

  4. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …sor for Social Policy and currently Deputy Head of Department of Social Policy at Oxford University. He is a Research Affiliate of the National Poverty Centre, University of Michigan and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Member of the statutory UK Social Security Advisory Committee for 10 years until 2012 and chaired the Academic Advisory Committee during the design and launch of the ESRC UK Household Longitudinal Study. He is curren…

  5. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …ent outcomes. This approach allows a reimagining of ‘inclusive learning outcomes’ to encompass the multi-dimensional value of a university education and a plurality of valued cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds whose experiences are strongly shaped by hardship. Based on capability theorising and student voices, the book proposes for policy and practice a set of contextual higher education capability domain…

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