The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers. Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, India and South Africa, the 2007 volume is split into four clear sections covering key topics, such as: the current global context when all work, even local, is influenced by global economic activity workers are expected to engage in lifelong learning but also be mobile and deal with rapidly changing working knowledge work related education must prepare workers for the global economy and specific contexts, where governments attract global companies by promoting education and literate workforces how the responsibility for providing work-education is distributed between schools, vocational education, HE, professional bodies, local and global companies, governments, the private sector and individuals the pressures on formal education and training institutions to produce graduates with certain kinds of knowledge, skills and personal attributes.
Author(s): Farrell Fenwick
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Series editors’ introduction......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Part I. What counts as working knowledge?......Page 30
1 Educating a global workforce?......Page 32
2 Globalisation, work and indigenous knowledge in the global marketplace: The New Zealand experience......Page 46
3 Whose knowledge counts?: A case study of a joint MBA programme between Australia and China......Page 60
4 Work and the labour process: ‘Use-value’ and the rethinking of skills and learning......Page 73
5 From union education to workers’ education: Workers learning how to confront twenty-first-century capitalism......Page 84
6 Healing, hiding and hope(lessness): HIV/AIDS and workplace education in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa......Page 95
Part II. Knowing and working the global economy......Page 108
7 Working life learning, young people and competitive advantage: Notes from a European perspective......Page 110
8 Meeting the challenges of global economy in vocational education and training: The case of Malaysia......Page 121
9. Vocational training through the apprenticeship system in Turkey......Page 134
10 Where the global meets the local: Workforce diversity education......Page 146
11 Organizational learning: Competence-bearing relations and breakdowns of workplace relatonics......Page 160
12 Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centres......Page 173
Part III. Work, working life and working identities......Page 184
13 Working on identities......Page 186
14 Fashioning subjectivity through workplace mentoring......Page 197
15 Negotiating self through changing work......Page 208
16 Identity formation and literacy development within vocational education and work......Page 219
17 The power and price of English: Educating Nepalese people for the global workforce......Page 230
Part IV. Challenges for work-related education......Page 244
18 Brain drain and the potential of professional diasporic networks......Page 246
19 Social technologies at work......Page 258
20 ‘Knowledge society’ or work as ‘spectacle’?: Education for work and the prospects of social transformation in Arab societies......Page 270
21 Pedagogical approaches to work-related learning with special reference to the lowskilled......Page 287
22 Gender matters in IT: Skills hierarchies and women’s on-the-job learning......Page 297
23 Women and their knowledge managing the ‘other economy’......Page 308
24 The ghost in the network: Globalization and workplace learning......Page 319
Index......Page 330
