Challenging transitions in learning and work : : reflections on policy and practice / / edited by Peter Sawchuk, Alison Taylor.
In the past two decades, advanced capitalist countries have seen sustained growth in labour market participation along with a growth in the number of jobs workers tend to have in their working lives. Over a slightly longer period we also see that participation in both formal educational attainment a...
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| Superior document: | The Knowledge economy and education |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge economy and education ;
Volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Peter Sawchuk and Alison Taylor
- Understanding Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work / Peter H. Sawchuk and Alison Taylor
- Age, Occupational Class and Lifelong Learning / D.W. Livingstone
- Introduction / Peter H. Sawchuk
- Leaving University Without Graduating / Wolfgang Lehmann and Eric Y. Tenkorang
- Evolving Constraints and Life ‘Choices’ / Alison Taylor and Evelyn Steinhauer
- Educating for Followership / Anthony Tambureno
- There and Not There / Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky
- Skilled Trade Training Programs for Women / Bonnie Watt-Malcolm
- Re-Thinking Learning-Work Transitions in the Context of Community Training for Racialized Youth / Karen Carter
- Transitioning to the Teacher Workforce / Katina E. Pollock
- Introduction / Alison Taylor
- Occupational Transitions Within Workplaces Undergoing Change: A Case from the Public Sector / Peter H. Sawchuk
- Ambiguities in Continuing Education and Training in the Knowledge Economy / Paul Bélanger and Stéphane Daniau
- Transitioning Into Precarious Work / Kiran Mirchandani , Roxana Ng , Nel Coloma-Moya , Srabani Maitra , Trudy Rawlings , Hongxia Shan , Khaleda Siddiqui and Bonnie Slade
- False Promises in the New Economy / Shibao Guo
- ‘Starting from Another Side, the Bottom’ / Bonnie Slade and Daniel Schugurensky
- Adult Education and the Transition to Retirement / Pierre Doray , Elaine Biron , Paul Bélanger , Simon Cloutier and Olivier Meyer
- Transitions in Working Dis/Ability / Janice Wallace and Tara Fenwick
- Afterword / Alison Taylor and Peter Sawchuk.