Title Meeting basic learning needs in the informal sector : integrating education and training for decent work, empowerment and citizenship / edited by Madhu Singh

Published Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations Series UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v. 2 UNESCO-UNEVOC book series ; v. 2. Contents Introduction; Schooling and Basic Skills: Training Programmes and Challenges in the Informal Sector: Latin America; Informal Learning and the Role of Social Movements; The Informal Sector: Non-Formal Education Settings for Working Children; Institutional Support Structures and Modes of Skills Transmission; Gender and the Informal Economy in Latin America: New Challenges and Possible Answers for Labour Training Policies; Trade Unions and Adult Learning for Women Construction Workers in the Informal Sector; Skills Formation for the Informal Sector in Bangladesh: A Strategic Framework Summary "This anthology brings together basic facts and features about basic learning needs and skills of people working and living in the informal economy and presents case studies from different countries examining educational and training strategies for meeting these learning needs. It portrays the grave problems facing educational and training systems vis--̀vis informal sector workers, even as they look at holistic solutions that take into account principles of lifelong learning and innovations in informal, non-formal and formal adult learning. It also shows that a growing awareness that education is a human right of fundamental significance to promoting decent work and humane living conditions." "Although this book mainly addresses learning programmes for the informal economy in countries in South Asia, Latin America and the Arab world, the lessons learnt have much to offer to researchers, policymakers and practitioners working in other parts of the world."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record In Springer e-books Subject Non-formal education. Adult education. Informal sector (Economics) -- Employees -- Training of Fundamental education. Informal sector (Economics) Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use Neoplasms -- drug therapy EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Education. Informal sector (Economics) Adult education Fundamental education Non-formal education Form Electronic book Author Singh, Madhu LC no. 2006272735 ISBN 9781402034275 140203427X 1402034261 9781402034268 6610283850 9786610283859

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