Brussels zakboekje 2020 : adressengids voor welzijn en gezondheid / Kenniscentrum WWZ, 2020
woensdag 24 juni 2020
dinsdag 23 juni 2020
Verhuistrajecten van internationale immigranten na aankomst in België: statistiekontwikkeling
Edwin Pelfrene & Jan Pickery. Statistiek Vlaanderen, 2020.
"Het rapport gaat de mogelijkheid na om nieuwe statistieken te ontwikkelen over geografische mobiliteit van internationale immigranten, meer bepaald met betrekking tot de duur van het verblijf in België, de duur van het verblijf op de plaats van aankomst en de verhuistrajecten en geografische spreiding. De resultaten tonen aan dat de geografische opvolging van internationale immigranten statistische informatie kan verschaffen complementair aan bestaande statistieken. Een uitbreiding van de geografische focus van de studie en een verbetering van de operationele definitie van migratietrajecten zijn echter noodzakelijk voor verdere statistiekontwikkeling."
maandag 22 juni 2020
zaterdag 20 juni 2020
Workplaces as learning spaces - conceptual and empirical insights
Workplaces as learning spaces - conceptual and empirical insights / Annette Ostendorf & Chompoonuh K.Permpoonwiwat. Innsbruck University Press, 2017.
"This volume is focused on workplaces as learning spaces. It is the fourth volume of Asian and European researchers carrying out common or related work in the field of workplace learning. They are organised in the ASEM Lifelong Learning research net-work, which was established in 2005 and includes members from 14 countries in Asia and Europe. The research network is enhancing a vivid exchange of knowledge and ideas on workplace learning across different countries, cultures and continents and it conducts research agreed on common concepts. The contributions in this volume comprise in many cases empirical data gained by combining different qualitative re-search methods, including visual methods. The work of all researchers and research teams in this paper collection is dedicated to throw light on the phenomenon of work-places as learning spaces, and to explain different facets of meaning, processes and structure related to it."
donderdag 18 juni 2020
KidsRights Index 2020
The KidsRights Index is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation, in cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam: Erasmus School of Economics and the International Institute of Social Studies. It comprises a ranking for all UN member states that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and for which sufficient data is available, a total of 182 countries.
woensdag 17 juni 2020
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
Children’s Exploration and Cultural Formation / Mariane Hedegaard & Elin Eriksen Ødegaard (ed.). Springer, 2020.
"This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education. "
maandag 15 juni 2020
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: lessons from Africa
"This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from 5 countries and the ECOWAS (west African) region, and a range of sectors from education, wildlife, sanitation, through to government procurement processes. The book is supported by a range of policy briefs and videos intended to be both practical and critically rigorous. The book uses evidence sources such as evaluations, research synthesis or citizen engagement, to show how these cases succeeded in informing policy and practice. The voices of policy makers are key to the book, ensuring that the examples deployed are useful to practitioners and researchers alike. This innovative book will be perfect for policy-makers, practitioners in government and civil society, and researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence can be used to support policy making in Africa."
The essential role of language in survey research
Sha, M., & Gabel, T. J. (Eds.) (2020). The essential role of language in survey research. RTI Press. RTI Press Publication No. BK-0023-2004
"Language users, such as survey respondents and interviewers, must speak the same language literally and figuratively to interact with each other. As diversity grows in the United States and globally, interviewers and respondents may speak a different language or speak the same language differently that reflects their own cultural norms of communication. This book discusses the role of language in survey research when comparisons across groups, cultures, and countries are of interest. Language use in surveys is dynamic, including words, symbols (e.g., arrows), and even emojis. The entire survey life cycle is carried out through language. Researchers write or translate questions and instructions that will address research questions and then pretest them using various techniques, including qualitative inquiry that focuses on context beyond just “the numbers.” Human or virtual data collectors use persuasive messages to communicate with survey respondents and encourage their survey participation. Respondents must comprehend and interpret survey questions and instructions to provide a response. All of these survey processes and products contribute to data quality, and the role of language is essential."
zondag 14 juni 2020
donderdag 11 juni 2020
Active labour market policies in Flanders: evaluation of the ESF “Work Experience for Young Persons”
"The aim of this report is to evaluate the “Work Experience for Young Persons" (WIJ) programme, implemented in Flanders from 2015 until 2018. The WIJ programme is targeted at unqualified young unemployed with the aim of facilitating their entry to the labour market, through an intensive guiding trajectory which includes labour market orientation and coaching, and possibly competence strengthening
activities. The analysis is based on administrative data sources from the Flemish Public Employment Service. Using detailed information on the past labour market histories of youth, we apply matching approaches to evaluate the impact of WIJ in terms of probability of being employed or re-entering education for young unemployed. Our results suggest that those who have participated in the WIJ programme have lower employment and education probabilities. However, if we only consider those whose WIJ intervention lasted less than 14 months (which includes all participants within the standard trajectory), there are no significant differences between the treated and the control group in terms of employment probability. Furthermore, the negative effect on the probability of being enrolled in education is smaller in this group than in the whole sample. Those who followed the standard trajectory thus clearly outperformed those in extended trajectories. Because relatively little is known about the selection process of the treated individuals, these results should be interpreted with caution."
Relocating unaccompanied children: applying good practices to future schemes
Relocating unaccompanied children: applying good practices to future schemes / European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2020.
"In recent years, thousands of girls and boys have reached Europe without their parents, and sought international protection. Many of them experienced violence, abuse and neglect in their home countries, and while in transit. They have the right to be protected in line with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention on Human Rights, and European Union
law. As arrivals increased at the European borders, some of the EU Member States receiving them could not adequately provide for their rights. As a measure of solidarity, since 2015, almost 1,400 unaccompanied children have been transferred from the Member State of arrival to another EU Member State under different relocation arrangements. This report explores the challenges and good practices gathered in the implementation of such relocation programmes. Based on information FRA collected in 10 EU Member States, it aims to help national authorities to support the relocation of unaccompanied children by taking measures that are fully rights compliant and practically feasible."
Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU: final report
Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU: final report / Laurie Day, Cecile McGrath, Barry Percy-Smith and Sladjana Petkovic. European Commission, 2020.
"In June 2019, the European Commission (EC) appointed Ecorys to carry out a Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU. The work was carried out between June and October 2019, in the context of the EAC-47-2014 Multiple Framework Service Contract to carry out studies supporting European Cooperation in Education and Youth.
The study has the following four key objectives: Firstly, to provide a general mapping of European Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and EU wide networks in the field of youth with a view to identify gaps in youth representation at EU level with special attention to outreach and appropriate representation of diverse interests from regional and local levels. Secondly, it aims to assess the contribution of EU funding to youth organisations and networks, in particular under the Erasmus+ programme in relation to youth participation and youth representation. Thirdly, it strives to identify the new trends in youth participation and formulate recommendations on how their potential could be better tapped under the EU Youth Strategy; and lastly it aspires to formulate recommendations with regard to EU funding to European NGOs and EU-wide networks in the youth field.
ERYICA participated in the survey and was one of the few INGOs selected as “relevant stakeholder” for an in-depth interview. The interview aimed to understand the opportunities and challenges for young people to participate in democratic life at EU, regional and local levels. As part of the study, the Commission was also interested in understanding how EU grant funding was used to engage young people, and the impact of the funding.
The study presents a valuable snapshot of youth NGO activity across Europe in summer 2019, with representation from all of the main types of NGOs, and covering all European Member States at that date. The qualitative research was carried out with young people from diverse backgrounds from across Europe, with balanced geographical coverage and a cross-section of countries with different levels of representation. This allows for a good level of confidence in the research findings. As with any study, certain data limitations and caveats apply. The true number of NGOs operating in Europe is not known, and the survey findings are not therefore fully generalizable to the wider population."
Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance
Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance / EIGE, 2020.
"EIGE’s Gender Equality Index shows that advances in gender equality are still moving at a snail’s pace, but we are heading in the right direction. There are big improvements in the domain of power, as more women are taking on decision-making positions, especially in company boardrooms across Europe.
Each year we score EU Member States and the EU as a whole to see how far they are from reaching gender equality. The Index uses a scale of 1 to 100, where 1 is for total inequality and 100 is for total equality.
The scores are based on the gaps between women and men and levels of achievement in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. Two additional domains are integrated into the Index but do not have an impact on the final score. The domain of intersecting inequalities highlights how gender inequalities manifest in combination with age, dis/ability, country of birth, education and family type. The domain of violence against women measures and analyses women’s experiences of violence.
In addition to providing a snapshot into the Index scores, the Gender Equality Index 2019 includes a thematic focus on work-life balance."
Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined
"We know that responsive relationships and language-rich experiences for young children help build a strong foundation for later success in school. The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health are also built early, with increasing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period and first few years after birth."
Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving: een pleidooi voor zingeving en creativiteit
Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving: een pleidooi voor zingeving en creativiteit / Crétien van Campen. Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 2020.
"Tijdens de coronacrisis hebben tal van nieuwe creatieve bijeenkomsten met ouderen het daglicht gezien. Door de gezondheidsbeschermende maatregelen dreigt hun wereld klein te worden. Nu de anderhalvemetersamenleving langer gaat duren, zullen creatieve oplossingen gevraagd worden om ouderen betrokken te houden. Naast de zorg voor de gezondheid vraagt het leven ook om plezier, betekenisvolle contacten en zinvol meedoen aan de samenleving.
Het essay ‘Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving’ nodigt uit na te denken welke creatieve oplossingen en initiatieven mogelijk en nodig zijn, zodat mensen gezond èn zinvol ouder kunnen worden."
woensdag 10 juni 2020
maandag 8 juni 2020
When life revolves around the home: work and sociability during the lockdown
When life revolves around the home: work and sociability during the lockdown / Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, Nicolas Sauger & Jen Schradie. Policy paper n° 3 - Project ''Coping with Covid-19. Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France''
"How disruptive is Covid-19 to everyday life? How is the French population experiencing the lockdown? Is it magnifying inequalities and affecting social cohesion? The CoCo project sheds lights on these pressing questions by comparing living conditions in France before, during, and after the lockdown. This is the third of a series of research briefs. We explore how French society has coped with the first 6 weeks of the lockdown, particularly as regards the transformation of working conditions and social life. We also continue to monitor self-reported health and well-being.
About a third of workers kept working at their workplace, another third shifted to remote work while the others stopped working altogether, becoming unemployed or taking leave. Women with at least a young child were more likely to stop working. Remote-work is concentrated in the middle-upper segment of the income distribution, while working outside the home remains the norm for the bottom-half of earners. Remote workers’ working conditions are better in comparison to workplace-workers. They are also the most interested in continuing to work remotely after the lockdown. The division of domestic work tends to be more egalitarian in households where the woman is working remotely. The men find it difficult to spend time educating their children. Unprecedented levels of online social contact have compensated for a steep drop in sociability. Continued relations with relatives are the most prevalent while people who developed new relationships during confinement did so mostly with their neighbours.Contracting the virus has now more to do with employment conditions. People who kept going to the workplace were more likely to contract the virus. While happiness levels dropped at the beginning of the lockdown, they have regained and even surpassed pre-lockdown levels for most people."
donderdag 4 juni 2020
Tussen verveling en vereenzaming
Tussen verveling en vereenzaming: een kwalitatief onderzoek naar hoe ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond eenzaamheid en ouder worden in Nederland beleven /Hanan Nhass & Joline Verloove Kennisplatform Integratie & Samenleving, 2020.
"Hoe beleven ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond eenzaamheid en ouder worden in Nederland? Die vraag staat centraal in dit nieuwe KIS-onderzoek.
In dit verkennende onderzoek spraken de onderzoekers met twaalf zelfstandig wonende (55+)ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond. Het gespreksthema was hun leefwereld rond ouder worden en eenzaamheid. De onderzoekers spraken ook met sociaal professionals, experts en informele hulpverleners, waaronder gespecialiseerde welzijnsprofessionals, moskeevoorzitters en sleutelfiguren uit de Marokkaanse gemeenschap.
Het rapport biedt inzicht in de leefwereld van de ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond, en aanbevelingen voor de aanpak van eenzaamheid voor sociaal professionals."
Polarisatie onder jongeren in niet-stedelijke gebieden: oorzaken, verschijningsvormen en aanpakken
Polarisatie onder jongeren in niet-stedelijke gebieden: oorzaken, verschijningsvormen en aanpakken / Ron van Wonderen & Leyla Reches . Kennisplatform Integratie & Samenleving, 2020.
"KIS onderzocht hoe jongeren in niet-stedelijke gebieden aankijken tegen mensen met een migratieachtergrond, en hoe zij aan hun denkbeelden komen. Hoe gaan jongerenwerkers om met polarisatie en extreme ideeën onder jongeren, en wat hebben zij nodig om dit effectief aan te kunnen pakken? We beantwoordden deze vragen in een verkennend onderzoek. Ook brachten we in kaart welke werkwijzen en tools door jongerenwerkers kunnen worden ingezet."
16 praktijkverhalen over jeugdwerk en sociale integratie
https://demos.be/kenniscentrum/praktijk/adviescentrum-migratie-slaat-brug-naar-jeugdwerk
•Helix bouwt de brug tussen onderwijs en jeugdwerk
•Iedereen piraat. City Pirates zoekt in Antwerpen naar een duurzame plek tussen sport, jeugdwerk en maatschappelijk werk
•Maatwerk in groepsverband. Inclusie op de Antwerpse speelpleinen van Koraal
•Ervaringsdeskundigen van PIN leiden nieuwkomers toe naar het jeugdaanbod in Vilvoorde
•AFYA en de Liga Autisme Vlaanderen organiseren samen autismevriendelijke zomerkampen
•Project XX uit Gent slaat de brug tussen jeugdhulp en jeugdwerk
•JNM verbindt milieuproblematiek met sociale rechtvaardigheid
•Wij zijn allemaal animator. Een gezamenlijke cursus verbindt Genkse jeugdwerkers
•LEJO werkt met tienerouders vanuit IEM achtergrond
•Nerdlab werkt aan inclusieve makerspace
•Wel Jong Niet Hetero focust op welzijn jongeren met migratieachtergrond
•Leren omgaan met verschil. Roots vzw en Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen versterken elkaars werking
•House of Time: participatieve plek voor Brugse jongeren
•Playbox Cultureghem lokt jeugdbewegingen naar de wijken
•BXL Music Lab
•Adviescentrum Migratie slaat brug naar jeugdwerk
open access e-book: Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education
"Teachers spend much of their time on assessment, yet many higher education educators have received minimal guidance on assessment design and marking. This means assessment can often be a source of stress and frustration. Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education aims to solve these problems. Offering a concise overview of assessment theory and practice, this guide provides teachers with the help they need. In education, theory and practice are often poorly linked. In this guide, Teresa McConlogue presents theoretical ideas and research findings and links them to practice. She considers recent theoretical work on feedback and suggests ways of developing evaluative judgement. Throughout the book, teachers are encouraged to examine their practice critically, and there are ideas for small-scale educational investigations, involving teachers, their colleagues and students, such as using the Assessment Review Questionnaire to adapt assessments. A key principle of Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education is that an understanding of academic standards is fundamental to good assessment design and more reliable marking. The guide explores the concept of academic standards and proposes methods of co-constructing shared standards within a teaching team and with students through calibration activities."
dinsdag 2 juni 2020
Transforming International Cooperation: thoughts and Perspectives on Moving Beyond Aid
Transforming International Cooperation: thoughts and Perspectives on Moving Beyond Aid / Juliane Kolsdorf, Ulrich Müller (Ed.). Nomos, 2020.
"The world of international cooperation is in transition. Global power shifts and the rise of populism have made the world multipolar, but not necessarily more multilateral. The traditional North–South aid system is being called into question, while transnational challenges are affecting all countries and require stronger global partnerships. In this context, the graduation of countries from Official Development Assistance (ODA) stands out as a focal topic in connecting current debates.Facilitated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), this publication sees experts from various sectors and regions share and exchange their views in open dialogues and spotlight texts. They embed ODA graduation in its broader global context, discuss its implications and call for a new partnership based on global goals and knowledge sharing. This collection of thoughts and perspectives will thus hopefully serve as a milestone in the debate on transforming international cooperation."
The EU in the world — 2020 edition
The EU in the world — 2020 edition / Eurostat. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2020.
"This publication, published every second year, provides a statistical portrait of the European Union (EU) in relation to the rest of the world. It presents a broad range of indicators for the EU and the non-EU members of the Group of Twenty (G20). It is structured into three parts: people and society — population, health, education and training, labour market, living conditions, as well as digital society; economy and business— economy and finance, international trade, business, as well as research and development; environment and natural resources— transport, energy, environment, as well as agriculture, forestry and fisheries."
Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19: The Blue Marble Health Approach
Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19: The Blue-Marble Health Approach / Peter J. Hotez. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
"While COVID-19 has ravaged global economies and changed the way of life for us all, the disease has a disproportionately devastating impact on poorer communities. For the millions without a job because of community shut downs, decisions about basic necessities and the fear of healthcare costs for those diagnosed with the novel coronavirus become critical. In these uncertain times, international diplomacy, solidarity, and cooperation are vital. Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, provides an essential look at the global issue of health and poverty through the lens of COVID-19. He introduces a new global paradigm known as "blue marble health," through which he asserts that poor people living in wealthy countries account for most of the world's poverty-related illness. He explores the current state of neglected diseases in both China and the United States. By crafting public policy and relying on global partnerships to control or eliminate some of the world's worst poverty-related illnesses, Hotez believes, it is possible to eliminate life-threatening disease while at the same time creating unprecedented opportunities for science and diplomacy. Urgent, timely, and compassionate, this excerpted edition of Hotez's wide-sweeping Blue Marble Health serves as a timely guide for anyone committed to helping the millions of people who are facing the visceral threats of both poverty and COVID-19."
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being. Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Europe and Canada. International report / Jo Inchley, Dorothy Currie, Sanja Budisavljevic, Torbjørn Torsheim, Atle Jåstad, Alina Cosma, Colette Kelly, Ársæll Már Arnarsson, Vivian Barnekow and Martin M. Weber. World Health Organization, 2020.
-vol.1: Key findings
-vol.2: Key data
"Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has provided information about the health, well-being, social environment and health behaviour of 11-, 13- and 15-year-old boys and girls for over 30 years. The 2017/2018 survey collected data from over 220 000 young people in 45 countries and regions in Europe and Canada. The data focus on social context (relations with family, peers, school and online communication), health outcomes (subjective health, mental health, overweight and obesity, and injuries), health behaviours (patterns of eating, physical activity and toothbrushing) and risk behaviours (use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis, sexual behaviour, fighting and bullying) relevant to young people’s health and well-being. New items on family meals, electronic media communication and cyberbullying were introduced to the HBSC survey in 2017/2018 and measures of individual health complaints and underweight are also included for the first time in this report. Volume 1 of the international report presents key findings from the 2017/2018 survey, and Volume 2 provides key data disaggregated by country/region, age, gender and family affluence."
Iedereen Terug Aan Boord: krachtig Relancebeleid Voor Een Vitale En Inclusieve Arbeidsmarkt
"Snel, veilig, inclusief en toekomstgericht zijn de sleutelbegrippen van het relancebeleid dat de Vlaamse sociale partners in de SERV hebben uitgetekend. De maatregelen moeten het economische en sociale weefsel veilig stellen en de uitdagingen van de post-coronawereld aanpakken. Om de arbeidsmarkt te doen heropleven, willen de sociale partners niet alleen zoveel mogelijk ondernemingen en tijdelijke werklozen weer doen starten maar ook sterk inzetten op e-leren. VDAB moet klaar staan om de nieuwe werkzoekenden en de tijdelijke werklozen op te leiden en/of te heroriënteren om structurele werkloosheid tegen te gaan."
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