| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge research in lifelong learning and adult education |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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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Print version record |
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Temporary employees -- Singapore
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Temporary employees
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Evans, Karen, 1949- author.
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Sadik, Sahara, author
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Karmel, Annie, author
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| ISBN |
9781315102993 |
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1315102994 |
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9781351593748 |
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1351593749 |
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9781351593755 |
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1351593757 |
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9781351593731 |
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1351593730 |
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