Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work

Reflections on Policy and Practice

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In the past two decades, advanced capitalist countries have seen sustained growth in labour market participation along with a growth in the number of jobs workers tend to have in their working lives. Over a slightly longer period we also see that participation in both formal educational attainment and a range of non-compulsory learning/training has grown. However, labour market discrimination based on gender, age, disability and race/ethnicity remains a serious issue in virtually all OECD countries.
‘Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work’ presents a critical and expansive exploration of learning and work transitions within this context. These transitions are challenging for those enmeshed in them and need to be actively challenged through the critical research reported. The impetus for this volume, its conceptual framing, and much of the research emerges from the team of Canadian researchers who together completed case study and survey projects within the ‘Work and Lifelong Learning’ (WALL) network. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations as well as emerging researchers with fresh perspectives. This volume will appeal to researchers and policy-makers internationally with an interest in educational studies and industrial sociology.

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Age, Occupational Class and Lifelong Learning
Findings of a 2004 Canadian Survey of Formal and Informal Learning through the Life Course
Pages: 25–39
Introduction
Learning/Work Transitions – Education and Training
Pages: 41–47
Leaving University Without Graduating
Evidence from Canada’s Youth in Transition Survey
Pages: 49–64
Evolving Constraints and Life ‘Choices’
Understanding the Career Pathways of Students in First Nations Communities
Pages: 65–84
Educating for Followership
The Social Relations and Labour Process in a College Program
Pages: 85–108
There and Not There
Presence and Absence of Disability in the Transition from Education to Work
Pages: 109–124
Skilled Trade Training Programs for Women
In Vogue One More Time
Pages: 125–143
Transitioning to the Teacher Workforce
Internationally Educated Teachers (IETs) as Occasional Teachers
Pages: 165–182
Introduction
Learning/Work Transitions – Work, Career, and Life Changes
Pages: 183–187
False Promises in the New Economy
Barriers facing the Transition of Recent Chinese Immigrants in Edmonton
Pages: 243–260
‘Starting from Another Side, the Bottom’
Volunteer Work as a Transition into the Labour Market for Immigrant Professionals
Pages: 261–281
Transitions in Working Dis/Ability
Able-ing Environments and Disabling Policies
Pages: 309–324
Afterword
Pages: 325–333
Educational Researchers and their students
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