How non-permanent workers learn and develop: challenges and opportunities

by Bound, Helen

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Title Statements

Full title :How non-permanent workers learn and develop : challenges and opportunities / Helen Bound, Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik and Annie Karmel.

Summary

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore, it offers a model to guide thinking about workers' learning and development in terms of an 'integrated practice' of craft, entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills. The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work. Through its use of case studies, the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon. It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals. The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of 'integrated practices', challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle, but as an integrated whole. With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education, educational policy and lifelong learning.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

Notes

"Chapter 1: What constitutes non-permanent work and why is it significant? Chapter 2: Being a non-permanent worker Chapter 3: Dispositions towards learning and becoming for non-permanent workers Chapter 4: Contexts in Non-Permanent Work Chapter 5: Integrated practice Chapter 6: Using the spaces of NPW for learning, curriculum design, and delivery type Chapter 7: Implications for Workforce Development : A Comparative Perspective Appendix A: The research project: Genesis and methodology."

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315102993, 1315102994, 9781351593748, 1351593749, 9781351593755, 1351593757, 9781351593731, 1351593730
DOI:10.4324/9781315102993
oclc:on1044734249
LC Classification:HD5854.2.S55
Dewey Decimal:331.25/729095957

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What constitutes non-permanent work and why is it significant?; 2 Being a non-permanent worker; 3 Dispositions towards learning and becoming for non-permanent workers; 4 Contexts in non-permanent work; 5 Integrated practice; 6 Using the spaces of NPW for learning, curriculum design and delivery type; 7 Implications for workforce development: a comparative perspective; Appendix A: the research project: genesis and methodology; Index

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