The thematic block of the Journal for the Critique of Science entitled "Green politics" reflect on the issues of contemporary ecological and green theoretical thinking as well as policies and practices based in local environmental conflicts. The authors reflected predominantly on the analytical power and limitations of paradigms of sustainable development, further looked the explanatory power of relatively new concept of degrowth and evaluate limits to growth and finally analyse balances between environmental systems and human societies in the context of local-global coordinates.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 33824349Final presentation of international project EMCOSU, that has been coordinated by the head of research project between 2012-2015. Project has investigate modes of cooperation between industry and higher education institutions. Findings have been presented at the international valorisation conference EURASHE in Brussels 26.2.2015.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 33903965Purpose - The goal of the paper is to introduce the special issue on "Employability of Higher Education Graduates in Europe" from the perspective of global changes. Design/methodology/approach - The empirically-based articles of the special issue address six main areas related to the transition of graduates from education to the labour market: employment and employability, job (mis)match, development of particular areas of competency, new certificates of higher education, along with the disciplinarity and status of the self-perceived role of academics in supporting graduatesʼ careers. Findings - This issue provides empirical findings relevant to various stakeholders of higher education systems which are essential for strategic development in the area. Originality/value - The selection of papers proposes an interdisciplinary scientific approach in the areas of bridging (higher) education with the labour market.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 32338525The paper tackles explanatory logic of the socio-spatial changes, by sociologist Zdravko Mlinar. Consistency of his dialectical approach, from the beginning of his scientific activity to the present day, is evidenced in better understanding of mechanisms and principles of the long-term developmental processes of globalisation. Zdravko Mlinar can be ranked, worldwide, among the founding researchers of the complexities of the socio-spatial globalisation. Although originating from marxist dialectics, Mlinar's empirical as well as abstract dialectics transcends explanatory horizons of the former. We believe that his combined dialectics of exclusion/permeation as well as convergence/polarization can be explained as a fusional examination of two sociological analytical axes or relations: structure/action and integration/ differentation. Organizational (relational) characteristics of globalising societies are being, in time and space, permeated with structural characteristics, relativizing and replacing the later. He does not understand functional dynamics of integration and diferentiation primarily as a mechanism for establishing equilibrium of social order, instead, he explaining it as a developmental potential of human agency. Globalisation as the highest level of the societalization of individual, collective and territorial actors, accompanied by a high level of their emancipation could represent an ideotypical "outcome" of long-term developmental social changes. Developmental paradigm as exemplified by Mlinar can be outlined as a synthetic bridge among different paradigmatic directions in sociology.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 33227869Participation in the OECD survey PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies). At the final event the head of research programme presented baseline for development of competencies and work characteristics in Slovenia.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 33902941