Papers
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The digital landscape and new education providers
This report aims to consider the role that may be played in educational provision by organisations and sectors who, to date, have rarely been considered part of mainstream... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: education, digital environment, media, home, school
The boundaries between informal and formal work
It is assumed that as time progresses the formal economy becomes ever more important to everyday life. Whereas in the past people often worked on a subsistence... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, home, economics, family, community
Location, location, location: rethinking space and place as sites and contexts for learning
This essay considers the role of context and site in common understandings of learning in general and describes models of learning that exist as complement, supplement or remediation... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: learning environments, Sociology, home, school, community, relationships, cultural
Future horizons for work-life balance
Work-life balance can be defined from a legislative point of view drawing upon statutes and case law, and from an economic perspective where individuals make trade-offs between the... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, economics, employment, home, childcare, lifestyle
Review of future of paid and unpaid work, informal work, homeworking, the place of work in the family (women single parents, workless households), benefits, work attitudes motivation and obligation
Projecting trends into the future, or even just discussing them, is fraught with issues and problems. All too often predictions based on a particular single topic turn out... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: employment, work, home, family, women, benefits
