[PDF] Yearbook Of Workers Education eBook

Author : Lesley Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134118066

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The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers. Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, India and South Africa, the 2007 volume is split into four clear sections covering key topics, such as: the current global context when all work, even local, is influenced by global economic activity workers are expected to engage in lifelong learning but also be mobile and deal with rapidly changing working knowledge work related education must prepare workers for the global economy and specific contexts, where governments attract global companies by promoting education and literate workforces how the responsibility for providing work-education is distributed between schools, vocational education, HE, professional bodies, local and global companies, governments, the private sector and individuals the pressures on formal education and training institutions to produce graduates with certain kinds of knowledge, skills and personal attributes.

Author : Workers Education Bureau of America
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781334797644

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Excerpt from Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings, Second National Conference on Workers Education in the United States I want Specifically to acknowledge my appreciation of the ser of my friend T. S. Jones, Jr., of Mrs. Winifred aclay and Evelyn Wright, in reading proof, and other volunteers who a ed in preparing the copy for the printer. And finally I want gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of the New School for Social Research for opening its doors for the second year in succession to the National Conference on Workers' Education in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.