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 econ...

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.