ABSTRACT
The integration of work and learning is seen as essential in work environments and increasingly in educational institutions. In workplaces it is now taken for granted that while working we learn, and in secondary and post-compulsory education, employment and the production of workers are understood to be central to learning programmes. Indeed, employability and engagement with employers, a current focus of government education policy, highlight an agenda for educational institutions that encourages the integration of the business of work and employment with the outcomes of teaching and learning programmes. This integration has important pedagogical consequences for the practices of teachers and programme designers.
