Darka Podmenik

• Professor
• Senior Researcher at Institute for developmental and strategic analysis

Based on the concept of teleworkability, its sluggish determinants of industry structure and workplace culture, and the change in people’s valuation of rural amenities that happened during the pandemic, this paper analyzes their possible influence on counterurbanization during the pandemic in Sweden and Slovenia. We found signs of open (migration)...

At the break of the millennium development of highly innovative and creative knowledge and knowledge�based economies was increasingly perceived as the ‘key’ to the doors of competitiveness, employability and social inclusion (Becker, 1962). But in the same time it could be observed that education and knowledge, which have been recognised as two key...

This paper's main aim is to observe and confirm youth unemployment as a structural phenomenon in certain EU countries, including Slovenia. An innovative contribution is that it complements the prevailing economistic discourse with a sociological one. In the introduction, a brief history and overview of youth unemployment is presented. Slovenia is o...

This paper's main aim is to observe and confirm youth unemployment as a structural phenomenon in certain EU countries, including Slovenia. An innovative contribution is that it complements the prevailing economistic discourse with a sociological one. In the introduction, a brief history and overview of youth unemployment is presented. Slovenia is o...

The article examines whether young people are at a greater risk of unemployment than the general population in the post-pandemic crisis. First, the authors draw attention to youth unemployment as a structural problem even before the pandemic, making young people more vulnerable. Further, the paper analyses the age structure of employed in sectors m...

The proposed paper focuses on the problem of the youth unemployment crisis in EU member states. We analyze and document characteristics and factors of youth unemployment in EU member states with the intention to present its integration and influence on the reproduction of the economic crisis. According to the indicators of youth unemployment trends...

The trend of long-term youth unemployment shows that modern knowledge societies are overloaded with human capital educational resources on one hand but, on the other, the flow of knowledge from the holders, especially those with the highest levels of education, to knowledge users is somewhat dysfunctional. A complex mix of socioeconomic and cultura...

Gregor Kocijan initiated, encouraged and carried out research on reading habits in Slovenia in the period between 1973 and 1999. The research project The Book and Its Readers was undertaken four times during this period, each time including new, topical fields of study with a focus on Kocijan’s central interest topic, i.e., the reading of the Slove...

Gregor Kocijan initiated, encouraged and carried out research on reading habits in Slovenia in the period between 1973 and 1999. The research project The Book and Its Readers was undertaken four times during this period, each time including new, topical fields of study with a focus on Kocijan's central interest topic, i.e., the reading of the Slove...

The young are a social group most likely to be included in insecure forms of employment. Employers give special emphasis to the presented talents of young job seekers. Each individual’s offering, his or her personal characteristics and competences are important for every organisation. In this paper we focus on the possibility of early identificatio...

ABSTRACT This paper introduces the role of social capital as one of individual resources which, besides human capital should contribute to the increased competitiveness of young highly educated job seekers. Two theoretical perspectives on the role of social capital are exposed: its interrelation with human capital, as well as its importance for pr...

V zadnjih desetletjih se je izobraženost prebivalcev evropskih držav, še posebej mladih, pomembno povečevala, ob tem pa se je zmanjševala verodostojnost jamstva, da višja stopnja formalne izobrazbe prinaša ustreznejšo in bolje plačano zaposli­ tev. Hkrati se spreminjajo prakse zaposlovanja, med drugim tudi zato, ker delodajalci vse pogosteje zahtev...

The aim of this article is to point to these vast differences and to show, that the willingness and capacity of citizens to create organisations and get engaged in civic actions, isn’t equally distributed among the EU citizens, nations and regions. Additionally we assume that the capacity of national civil society organisations to get engaged in tr...

The fact that qualitative approaches are gaining more and more recognition in social sciences can be explained as a consequence of a change in epistemic and institutional parameters. In this sense we can speak about the "post-positivist" era in which more complex and inclusive research designs are needed. Analyzing the development and the state of...

Jurij Fikfak: Voices of Qualitative Research. Between Different Perspectives and Emerging Trends / Glasovi kvalitativnega raziskovanja. Med različnimi perspektivami in nastajajočimi tokovi Epistemological Problems Frane Adam and Darka Podmenik: The Reception of Qualitative Research in Slovenia Will C. van den Hoonaard: The Epistemological Framewor...

Avtorica je v prispevku predstavila "aktivne" državljane in državljanke pri uspešnem vključevanju v družbeno okolje z delovanjem in učenjem. V prispevku navedeni podatki in primeri so bili obdelani v okviru mednarodnega raziskovalnega projekta Education and Training far Governance and Active Citizenship in Europe (ETGACE).

V prispevku, ki je povzetek daljše študije, so predstavljeni pomembnejši konceptualni in metodološki pristopi k ugotavljanju potreb po izobraževanju odraslih. Konceptualni pristopi se navezujejo na teoretično razlago potreb, kot so na primer behavioristična in razvojno-humanistična teorija potreb v psihologiji, razredno-slojevske teorije potreb v s...

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