Participation of the lower-educated in the Netherlands

Full text via link. Chapter 9 of A Good Society Is More Than Just a Private Affair. In this chapter the situation of the lower-educated in the Netherlands has been described. We started with a brief explanation of the concepts of work participation and social participation. Participation means being actively involved with something. Until the 1990s, participation was seen mostly as economic participation or work participation in the Netherlands. Recently the focus has shifted to participation as a social issue; actively participating in societ