Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work: Survey and Case Study Findings

ISBN-13: 9780415565646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

D W Livingstone

Opis

This work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Framework for Exploring Relations between Lifelong Learning and Work in the Computer Era, Part I. Surveys, 1. Work and Learning in the Computer Era: Basic Survey Findings, Part II. Case Studies of Unpaid Work and Learning, 2. Odd Project Out: Studying Lifelong Learning through Unpaid Household Work, 3. Volunteer Work and Informal Learning: Exploring the Connections, Part III. Case Studies of Paid Work and Learning, 4. Re-visiting Taylorism: Conceptual Implications for Studies of Lifelong Learning, Technology and Work in the Public Sector, 5. Women’s experiences of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Work in the "Knowledge-Based" Society: Learning the Gender Politics of IT Jobs, 6. Beginning from Disability to Study a Corporate Organization of Learning, 7. Teachers’ Learning and Work Relations: (Shifting) Engagements and Challenges, Part IV. Case Studies of Transitions between Education and Work, 8. Challenging Transitions from School to Work, 9. Biographical Transitions and Adult Learning: Reproduction and/or Mobilization, Part V. Concluding Reflections, 10. Reflections on Results of Canadian Studies and German Perspectives on Work-related Learning, 11.‘Not just another survey’: Reflections on Researchers’ Working and Learning through Investigating Work and Lifelong Learning, 12. Reflections on the WALL Research Network and Future Studies of Work and Learning

O autorze

D. W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work at the University of Toronto, and Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT). His books include The Education-Jobs Gap (2004) and Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps (2009).