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Research on adult, professional and vocational education in a global world is timely (Farrell & Fenwick, 2007). Globalisation and economic crises are the trends that most dramatically transform the social, political, economic and ecological spheres of our time and directly affect the everyday life of local communities and workplaces.
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Bohlinger, S., Haake, U., Jørgensen, C.H., Toiviainen, H., Wallo, A. (2015). Introduction. In: Bohlinger, S., Haake, U., Jørgensen, C.H., Toiviainen, H., Wallo, A. (eds) Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-244-8_1
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