ABSTRACT
The chapters in the final Part of this book have continued to engage with developing greater understandings of innovative practices in lifelong learning, that move beyond the current global focus on skills based learning and training, to broader conceptualisations. Although the current context of neo-liberal discourses and policies concentrate on lifelong learning for work and the economic participation in the workplace of individuals, the chapter authors have shown how new communities of practice may develop in the work arena, in more diverse workplace terrains. Like the preceding chapters, the chapters in Part III has been concerned with issues of diversity, participation and non-participation, of power and resistances, and of challenges to hierarchical and dominant constructions of knowledge, this time through an exploration of work-based learning and learning through work.
