GOETE - Project News

Far From Frozen - New publication on students voices available!

webmaster@goete.eu (John Litau) — Fri, 23 May 2014 10:34:12 +0000

What do children and young people think about education? Possible answers to this question are elaborated in this volume by portraying and illustrating the views on education of young people across Europe. The volume is based on a collection of essays that students were asked to write as part of the GOETE project. 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.

New GOETE report on recommendations for future training

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:20:02 +0000

The GOETE project has just published a new report on recommendations for future training. The aim of this report is to illuminate different challenges in future training for teachers and other practitioners and provide recommendations for future training in the different countries who have participated in GOETE.

Youth in GOETE: Views and Voices

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:46:35 +0000

Students from GOETE case studies contributed their views on educational trajectories in a number of videos and essays. Here we are giving a flavour of what GOETE topics mean to them.

GOETE Findings at a Glance

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:02:26 +0000

Who decides on education?

Education has increasingly become an issue of public debates and an increasingly disputed societal value. The research project Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe therefore asked how educational trajectories of children and young people evolve and how underlying decisions are being made.

GOETE Final Conference held

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:34:04 +0000

During the last months of the project, all participating countries in GOETE have been busy with various activities: first, thematic and comparative analyses were conducted and publications for the dissemination findings were prepared for both the scientific community and for policy and practice circles concerned with children’s and young people’s educational trajectories inside and outside school, at the local, regional, national and European level. One important event in the conclusion of the project was held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, that took place on March 21st, 2013

GOETE Newsletter No. 6, April 2013

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:20:33 +0000

The GOETE research consortium has just released the sixth edition of the newsletter of the GOETE research project. Among other topics, it presents a report from the final conference and GOETE findings at a glance.

GOETE video released

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:26:04 +0000

The research project "Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE)" has asked the young people involved in the study to express their own views on their transitions in the education system. Together with the researchers the young people have produced a variety of film formats on what education means to them. The outcome are a wealth of different approaches from video interviews to documentaries on a typical school day to a 30 minute fiction movie.

Invitation to the GOETE final conference

webmaster@goete.eu (Axel Pohl) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:54:40 +0000

It is our pleasure to invite you to the international conference

‘Youth and Educational Disadvantage: The Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe’

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, March 21^st, 2013

During the meeting the research results of the EU-funded project ‘Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe’ (GOETE) will be presented and discussed. At the centre of attention is a dialogue between research, practice and policy on the topic.

Youth Research in Europe: Interview with Andreas Walther

webmaster@goete.eu (Thomas Knichal) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:33:47 +0000

The interview was conducted by Lenart J. Kučić on July 10, 2010.

When young people in European cities start burning cars, occupying the faculties, and throwing well measured granite cubes into the Parliamentary windows, youth issue becomes an important political theme. Youth protests are frightening for adults, since they are touching their deepest parental fears and remind them that the society is less friendly than they see it themselves – it is unpredictable, uncertain, with no real prospects and no hope that someday it will be better – which is first felt precisely by young people.

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