Differences of national educational systems in the EU should be seen as a luckily situation, enabling to find various unique solutions to ESL problem. When these solutions are provided on controlled policy experiments and are thoroughly contextualized, they could become a mainstream practice for reducing ESL at the EU level.
European Council
Bibliographie
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ESL in the EU : differences and common trends
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What can we learn from second chance education programmes for adults to prevent ESL in younger generations ?
Different second-chance programmes attract a different participant profile, but sometimes seem to fail in reaching out to the most problematic ESLrs. Therefore much more effort should be put into keeping youth at risk in schools with special attentiveness to those with highest risk : those weary of school, redoing a year and having personal problems.
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“Knowledge society” and its conception of knowledge : “Interchangeable knowledge workers” and the redundancy of the traditional education
If the conception and character of knowledge that should be taught is drifting toward “economic survivalism”, then also the approach of school system and educators toward students is prone and subjected to change corresponding to these new demands. The general aspect of this change is that those who are to be educated are not approached by educators as future citizens but as future knowledge workers.