Working Knowledge in a Globalizing World: From Work to Learning, from Learning to Work (Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 303910974X ISBN 13: 9783039109746

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2006

Synopsis

Vocational education is an interface between practical and theoretical knowledge involving both work-related general knowledge and practical knowledge generated at work. The contributions cover many features of VET (Vocational Education and Training) in a global world. Part one examines VET’s work-relatedness as education marked by social or group (rather than individual) dynamics, and is inductive and practice-oriented.
The second part of this volume critically examines features of vocational education policy that are central to a number of present-day global social and economic concerns in light of changes in apprenticeship policies, information technology, structural adjustment, crises in youth culture, and shifting regional political and economic agendas. Global VET concerns are presented from national conditions of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

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About the Author

The Editors: Liv Mjelde, a sociologist specialised in sociology of education, is Professor of Vocational Pedagogy, Akershus University College, Norway. Her research interests include the social organisation of knowledge as well as comparative research into gendered work, education and the labour market.
Richard Daly is a social anthropologist who has researched and published on the social division of knowledge and Canadian Aboriginal rights. He has worked in the field of Aboriginal education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303910974X
• ISBN 13: 9783039109746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406
• Editor: Mjelde Liv, Daly Richard