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Qualification, socialisation and/or subjectification – three international organisations’ prioritisation of the purposes of adult education and learning from the 1970s to the 2010s

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Qualification, socialisation and/or subjectification – three international organisations’ prioritisation of the purposes of adult education and learning from the 1970s to the 2010s. / Larson, Anne; Cort, Pia Seidler.
I: International Journal of Lifelong Education, Bind 41, Nr. 1, 2022, s. 91-106.

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