{"id":148,"date":"2023-05-30T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/fhse-en\/?post_type=research-departments&#038;p=148"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:36:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"research-departments","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/research-departments\/department-of-education-and-social-work\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section py-0 static\">\n<section class=\"py-0 wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><!-- SecondaryNavigationMirror --><div class=\"js-secondary-nav--sticky wp-block-unilux-blocks-secondary-navigation\" id=\"f3ee09f7-e851-42ce-abf9-76c079689f23\">\n    <nav id=\"secondary-navigation\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Secondary menu\" class=\"secondary-nav\">\n        <button class=\"secondary-nav__button btn btn-solid--primary w-full\" 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  id=\"innovative-approaches-for-education-learning-and-social-development\"\n    >\nInnovative approaches for education, learning and social development<\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A wide variety of research projects comes together in the department of Education and Social Work to highlight innovative approaches and methodologies for education, learning, and social development in highly diverse, multilingual, and multicultural societies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ranging from early childhood, through school and university and into employment, considering biographical life events and structural crises such like unemployment, poverty and social exclusion the different strands of research in the department contribute to gaining new understandings at the local, national 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