Education for Lasting Worth

Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education∗

Political regimes influence the contents of education and the criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree, as well as on several labor market outcomes, by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes cut-off birth dates f...

For What It’s Worth

This article takes its point of departure from the intellectual milieu in the mid-1980s that gave rise to Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’s book, On Justification: Economies of Worth. It shows how exposure to ideas and concepts in that book came to take varied forms as they were elaborated and modified in the work of an American sociologist across several decades of research in diverse empir...

Patient education interventions for optimizing bowel cleansing before colonoscopy: is the juice worth the squeeze?

Worldwide, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths [1]. Although treatments for CRC have advanced over the past decade, they have translated into only a modest benefit for patients who have advanced and metastatic CRC, and with significantly increased treatment costs [2]. The aim of national screening programs is to reduce the bu...

The “Learning Factory”: An immersive learning environment for comprehensive and lasting education in industrial engineering

This paper presents the ”Learning and Innovation Factory for Integrative Production Education“ as a case study for a modern didactic approach at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT). The developed teaching methodology is combining the advantages of an interdisciplinary, experiences-based and applied approach to knowledge transfer, aiming to enhance the key competences of future industrial ...

For a Sociology of Worth