Learning and Work and the Politics of Working Life Global Transformations and Collective Identities in Teaching, Nursing and Social Work Edited by Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson, Beatrix Niemeyer
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Summary Large scale changes in work and education are a key feature of contemporary global transformations, with a pervasive politics that affects people's experiences of workplaces and learning spaces. This thought-provoking book uses empirical research to question prevailing debates surrounding compliance at work, education and lifelong learning, and emphasises the importance of debate and dissent within the current terms and conditions of work. Examining a number of types of work, including teaching, nursing and social work, through a transnational research space, the contributors investigate how disturbances in work both constrain and enable collective identities in practical politics. Structured around three main themes, the book covers:
Table of Contents Selected Contents Introduction-
Disturbing work and transforming politics, Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson
and Beatrix Niemeyer 1. Disturbing Academic Work: Theorising
a global book project Terri Seddon, Lea Henriksson and Beatrix Niemeyer
Part 1 - Reconfiguring occupational orders 2. Human Service Labour
Force in the Making: Spotlight on Finnish practical nurses Lea Henriksson
3. Disputing Managerial Architecture in Educational Work: Irony as a liberating
strategy for Finnish vocational teachers Karin Filander 4. Disturbing
Work, Workspaces and Working Lives: Three Australian case studies Anita
Devos, Lesley Farrell and Terri Seddon Part 2 - The politics
of expertise 5. Reconstructing US Community College Faculty:
Mobilising professional expertise Richard L. Wagoner, John S. Levin and
Susan Kater 6. German School to Work Transition Programs: 'Disturbing
work' for educators Beatrix Niemeyer 7. Paraprofessional Development
in the UK: Ambivalences and contradictions Chris Kubiak 8. Finnish
Redefinitions of the 'Social' in Social Work: An eroding ethical discourse
Paumlivi Niiranen-Linkama 9. Adult Literacy Teaching
in Australia: Rethinking occupational knowledge Sue Shore Part
3 - Navigating work-learning careers 10. An Australian Worker
Navigating Precarious Work and Fluid Subjectivity John Pardy 11.
Employers Coping with Their Aging Workforce in East Germany Rudolf Husemann
12. Young Adults' Career Prospects and Aspirations in East Germany and
the US Antje Barabasch Coda 13. A Politics of Working
Life Frigga Haug
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