| Description |
xvii, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
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World yearbook of education ; 2007 |
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World year book of education ; 2007
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| Contents |
Part I. What counts as working knowledge? -- 1. Educating a global workforce? -- 2. Globalisation, work and indigenous knowledge in the global marketplace: The New Zealand experience -- 3. Whose knowledge counts?: A case study of a joint MBA programme between Australia and China -- 4. Work and the labour process: 'Use-value' and the rethinking of skills and learning -- 5. From union education to workers' education: Workers learning how to confront twenty-first-century capitalism -- |
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6. Healing, hiding and hope(lessness): HIV/AIDS and workplace education in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Part II. Knowing and working the global economy -- 7. Working life learning, young people and competitive advantage: Notes from a European perspective -- 8. Meeting the challenges of global economy in vocational education and training: The case of Malaysia -- 9. Vocational training through the apprenticeship system in Turkey -- 10. Where the global meets the local: workforce diversity education -- 11. Organizational learning : competence-bearing relations and breakdowns of workplace relatonics -- 12. Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centres -- Part III. Work, working life and working identities -- 13. Working on identities -- 14. Fashioning subjectivity through workplace mentoring -- 15. Negotiating self through changing work -- 16. Identity formation and literacy development within vocational education and work -- 17. Power and price of English : educating Nepalese people for the global workforce -- |
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Part IV. Challenges for work-related education -- 18. Brain drain and the potential of professional diasporic networks -- 19. Social technologies at work -- 20. 'Knowledge society' or work as 'spectacle'? : education for work and the prospects of social transformation in Arab societies -- 21. Pedagogical approaches to work-related learning with special reference to the low-skilled -- 22. Gender matters in IT : skills hierarchies and women's on-the-job learning -- 23. Women and their knowledge managing the 'other economy' -- 24. Ghost in the network : globalization and workplace learning |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically |
| Subject |
Education and globalization -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Education -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Knowledge workers -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Farrell, Lesley, 1953-
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Fenwick, Tara J.
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| LC no. |
2006032946 |
| ISBN |
0415416035 (hbk.) |
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