ABSTRACT
Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment. However, despite the importance of lifelong learning there is a critical absence of direct, international evidence on its extent, content and outcomes.
Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work. Empirical evidence drawn from national surveys in Canada and eight related case studies is used to explore the current learning activities of those in paid employment, housework and volunteer work, addressing all forms of learning including: formal schooling, further education courses, informal training and self-directed learning, particularly in the context of organisational and technological change.
Proposing an expanded conceptual framework for investigating the relationships between learning and work, the contributors offer new insights into the ways in which adult learning adapts to and helps reshape the wide contemporary world of work throughout the life course.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction
part I|43 pages
Surveys
part II|42 pages
Case studies of unpaid work and learning
part III|74 pages
Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work
chapter Chapter 5|18 pages
Revisiting Taylorism
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
Women's experiences of the good, the bad and the ugly of work in a ‘knowledge-based’ society
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
Teachers' learning and work relations
part IV|41 pages
Case studies of transitions between education and work
chapter Chapter 10|21 pages
Biographical transitions and adult learning
part V|26 pages
Concluding reflections