ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1987, at a time of high unemployment, this book provides a critical analysis of the role played by education in solving unemployment. It examines the practical, social and psychological effects of unemployment on adults and argues that formal institutional responses are inadequate within any long term perspective, and that it is rather community, informal and often unofficial initiatives that will provide learning experiences for unemployed people.

chapter Chapter One|26 pages

Chapter One: Being Unemployed

chapter Chapter Two|13 pages

Unemployment and the Role of Education

chapter Chapter Three|29 pages

Current Educational Responses to Adult Unemployment

chapter Chapter Four|24 pages

The Inadequacy of the Current Situation

chapter Chapter Five|20 pages

Towards a Re-Definition of Education for Unemployed Adults

chapter Chapter Six|18 pages

Unemployment Initiatives as Learning Experiences

chapter Chapter Seven|15 pages

Distance Teaching and Self-Paced Learning

chapter Chapter Nine|9 pages

The Future of Work and the Future of Education