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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

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Department of Education

Richard Desjardins

Education Undergraduate Program

Social Sciences and Comparative Education

Ph.D, International and Comparative Education, Stockholm University, 2004

BA Honors, Economics, Carleton University, 1998

Reproductive and transformative processes associated with lifelong learning systems

Intergenerational and distributional effects of education and learning on economic and social outcomes

Governance and financing of lifelong learning systems

Dynamic and interactive effects of structure-agency relations in determining participation in lifelong learning

Communication and relationships among actors/institutions relevant to lifelong learning systems

Comparative analysis of welfare state regimes and policies that affect the development and coordination of lifelong learning systems.

“Research” – “policy” relationship

Interdisciplinary and fragmentation of scientific knowledge relevant to educational research

Desjardins, R., & Rubenson, K. (eds) (2013). Adult learning systems in comparative perspective, European Journal of Education, 48 (2), pp. 193-325.

Desjardins, R. (2013). The economics of adult education: A critical assessment of the state of adult education, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013 (138), pp. 81-90.

Desjardins, R. (in press). Considerations of the impact of neoliberalism and alternative regimes on learnings and its outcomes: With an empirical example based on the level and distribution of adult learning, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 23 (2).

Rubenson, K., & Desjardins, R. (2009). The impact of welfare state regimes on barriers to participation in adult education: A bounded agency model, Adult Education Quarterly, 59 (3), pp. 187-207.

Desjardins, R., & Rubenson, K. (eds) (2009). Research of vs Research for Education Policy: In an Era of Transnational Education Policy-making. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.

Desjardins, R. (2008). Researching the links between education and well being, European Journal of Education, 43 (1), pp. 23-36.