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RELA - Calls for Papers

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Please find attached the current available call for papers to RELA. 

Open call for paper – papers related to the aim/scope of RELA is welcome at any time. See attachment. 

Thematic issue of RELA: Migration and the education and learning of adults. Submission deadline: October 15. See attachment. 

Best wishes

Andreas Fejes
Professor and chair of adult education research (Vuxenpedagogik)
Pro-Dean for research and doctoral studies, faculty of educational sciences, Linköping University

Placement Provision: What does research show us?

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The Wilson Review advocated the promotion of work placements as an effective way of improving employability.  Research shows that such integrated work experience also improves degree performance.  This session, run jointly with ASET, who have been advocating the importance of work experience for many years, aims to show case current research on work placements and to provoke discussion, inform practitioners and policy makers.

Class Dismissed? On Habitus Transformation and Hidden Injuries of Successful Working-Class University Students

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As the numbers of working-class students at university grow, we need to gain a better understanding of the different ways in which they consolidate their working-class habitus with the middle-class culture of the academic field. Drawing on data from a four-year longitudinal, qualitative study of working-class students at a large, research-intensive Canadian university, the seminar will focus on the experiences of those participants who fully embraced, became integrated and achieved academic success at university.

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