The article discusses the features of growing up with disability, the crises and overcoming of these crises, the role of significant others, the educational transitions, and the experience with institutions and experts. It is based on the analysis of the results of qualitative research of students with disabilities. A biographical approach has been used. These are the narratives about how a vital life experience can strengthen the individual, provided that they have a supportive living environment and empathic responses of the institutional environment that is supported by appropriate systemic solutions. Judging from the statements of students, the reason for their successful biographies is that they have been accepted by their familiesand have received the proper level of incentives and requirements. That has strengthened them in the way that they were also able to cope with identity crises, the crises of the transitions to adulthood, and with occasional negative reactions of the institutions.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 4246885In the framework of the European project “Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe” (GOETE) we have carried out a number of empirical researches on how educational trajectories and transitions of children and young people evolve. Who takes educational decisions that affect their present and later lives? This research was undertaken in 8 countries: France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and the UK. Apart from questionnaires and interviews with different actors involved in young people’s education, one part of data collection was asking students in their last year of compulsory education to write essays on their journeys through school education, the opportunities that have opened or closed for them, their experiences of the school, their feelings about the meaning of education for their lives, and their hopes and concerns for the future. This book wants to present the views of young people, less by writing about them but rather by providing a frame for their own voices to tell us what they think about their education and their lives in general. The essays capture a fascinating cross section of experiences that are highly personal but which also share many concerns relating to the process of growing up in contemporary Europe. Another reason why it is so important to give young people a voice – especially when thinking about educational reforms – is that many professionals working in the field of education do not get in contact with young people. Educational decisions are made without asking young people themselves for their needs and if they are asked many of them do not believe that responding can make a difference or they feel overburdened. Often, this results in suggestions that comply with dominant social and policy assumptions. Another reason why it is so important to give young people a voice – especially when thinking about reforms in education – is that many professionals working in the field of education do not get in contact with young people. Educational decisions are made about young people without asking them for their needs and if they are asked many of them do not believe that responding can make a difference. Often, this results in suggestions that comply with dominant social and policy assumptions.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 32702557Invited lecture at the International conference »Istanbul convention – important milestone in the history of the women's rights movement«. The lecture was a presentation of research results on poverty of women, that influences the extent of violence against women. The presentation included comparative perspective within the EU states. The results of the research were presented in 2014 also in other events found under the COBISS codes [COBISS.SI-ID 4212581], [COBISS.SI-ID 4259685], [COBISS.SI-ID 4239973], [COBISS.SI-ID 4213349], [COBISS.SI-ID 4177509] in [COBISS.SI-ID 4158821].
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4213861The outcomes of a study on food, identity, women and socialism were presented in a symposium and at a conference. The authors were invited to an international symposium at the University of Austin Texas and presented the following paper: VEZOVNIK, Andreja, KAMIN, Tanja. Is there such thing as socialist food? : a textual analysis of food consumption directives in the Slovenian life-style magazine Naša žena : presentation at the Symposium Food for Thought: Culture and Cuisine in Russia & Eastern Europe, 1800 - Present, February 7th & 8th, 2014, Austin, Texas. [COBISS.SI-ID 32585565] The authors participated in a Critical discourse analysis conference and presented the following paper which results also were part of the study mentioned above: VEZOVNIK, Andreja, KAMIN, Tanja. Is there something like socialist food? : a critical discourse analysis of food consumption directives in the Slovenian life-style magazine Naša žena : presentation at the Conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, Budapest, 1 - 3 September 2014. [COBISS.SI-ID 32935005]
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 32585565Two lectures at University of Oslo for Phd students. The lectures focused on applications of qualitative methodology - Critical discourse analysis on the field of Balkan studies. First lecture: A case study of intertextuality: awakening national identity in the late nineteenth century and in the post-communist period : lecture at the University of Oslo, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Oslo, June 5th 2014. [COBISS.SI-ID 32934493] Second lecture: A case study of othering : how do ex-Yugoslav immigrants (the Erased, Bosnian Muslims, and South Slavic manual workers) help to construct a European Slovenia? : lecture at the University of Oslo, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Oslo, June 6th 2014.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
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