The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning : : a A Critical Reader / / Edited by D.W. Livingstone; David Guile.

• Superior document: The Knowledge Economy and Education ; 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Livingstone, D.W.,; Guile, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Knowledge Economy and Education ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book presents some of the most trenchant critical analyses of the widespread claims for the recent emergence of a knowledge economy and the attendant need for greater lifelong learning. The book contains two sections: first, general critiques of the limits of current notions of a knowledge economy and required adult learning, in terms of historical comparisons, socio-political construction and current empirical evidence; secondly, specific challenges to presumed relations between work requirements and learning through case studies in diverse current workplaces that document richer learning processes than knowledge economy advocates intimate. Many of the leading authors in the field are represented. There are no other books to date that both critically assess the limits of the notion of the knowledge economy and examine closely the relation of workplace restructuring to lifelong learning beyond the confines of formal higher education and related educational policies. This reader provides a distinctive overview for future studies of relations between work and learning in contemporary societies beyond caricatures of the knowledge economy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / D.W. Livingstone and David Guile -- General Critiques / D.W. Livingstone and David Guile -- Beyond the Hype / Kenneth Carlaw , Les Oxley , Paul Walker , David Thorns and Michael Nuth -- Mapping Knowledge in Work / Chris Warhurst and Paul Thompson -- A Cultural Political Economy of Competitiveness / Bob Jessop -- Debunking the ‘Knowledge Economy’ / D.W. Livingstone -- Globalization, Knowledge, and the Myth of the Magnet Economy / Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder -- ‘The Art of Knowing’ / Paul Duguid -- The Knowledge Economy / Peter Kennedy -- Specific Challenges / D.W. Livingstone and David Guile -- Creating and Using Knowledge / Alison Fuller , Lorna Unwin , Alan Felstead , Nick Jewson and Konstantinos Kakavelakis -- Professions as Knowledge Cultures / Monika Nerland -- Object Lessons / Beth A. Bechky -- Improving Work Processes by Making the Invisible Visible / Arthur Bakker , Celia Hoyles , Phillip Kent and Richard Noss -- Divergent Working and Learning Trajectories in Social Services / Peter H. Sawchuk -- Working and Learning in the ‘Knowledge-Based’ Creative and Cultural Sector / David Guile -- The Learning Worker, Organizations and Democracy / Catherine Casey -- Education, Globalization and the ‘Voice of Knowledge’ / Michael Young -- Conclusion / D.W. Livingstone and David Guile.