This edited collection brings together cutting edge, evidence-based research on vocationalism at three levels: macro (national and policy-making), meso (programmes and organization), and micro (individually as learners and teachers). Chapters explore the key issues relating to the topic, such as the policies, curriculum, learning and teaching, and work contexts. The book reflects on the diversity of related programmes, and discusses the applicability and relevance of the term vocationalism in the light of current developments relating to higher vocational education, including occupation,...
This edited collection brings together cutting edge, evidence-based research on vocationalism at three levels: macro (national and policy-making), ...
There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it. This book analyses how a particular group creative knowledge workers carry out their jobs and learn within it. Using empirical research from advertising and software development in Europe, Singapore and Japan, it develops a new conceptual framework to analyse the complexities of creative knowledge work.
Focussing uniquely on the human element of working in the knowledge economy, it explores the real world of how people work in this emerging phenomenon and...
There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it. This book analyses how a par...
