Eucating the global workforce
Subtitle: knowledge, knowledge work and knowledge workers
By: edited by Lesley Farrell and Tara Fenwick.
Contributors: Farrell, Lesley, 1953-; Fenwick, Tara J.
Series: World yearbook of education series; World year book of education -- 2007.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780415416030; 9780203962664
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Education and globalization -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Educating a global workforce? -- Lesley Farrell and Tara Fenwick; title: Globalisation, work and indigenous knowledge in the global marketplace : the New Zealand experience -- Makere Stewart-Harawira; title: Whose knowledge counts? : a case study of a joint MBA programme between Australia and China -- Rui Yang and Wuhu Yao; title: Work and the labour process : 'use-value' and the rethinking of skills and learning -- Peter H. Sawchuk; title: From union education to workers' education : workers learning how to confront twenty-first century capitalism -- Jeffrey Taylor; title: Healing, hiding and hope(lessness) : HIV/AIDS and workplace education in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Peter Rule; title: Working life learning, young people and competitive advantage : notes from a European perspective -- Keith Forrester; title: Meeting the challenges of global economy in vocational education and training : the case of Malaysia -- Farizah Ahmad, Othman Omar and Mazanah Muhamad; title: Vocational training through the apprenticeship system in Turkey -- Özlem Ünlühisarcikli; title: Where the global meets the local : workforce diversity education -- Zane Ma Rhea; title: Organizational learning : competence-bearing relations and breakdowns of workplace relatonics -- Marianne Döös; title: Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centres -- Kiran Mirchandani and Srabani Maitra; title: Working on identities -- Clive Chappell, Hermine Scheeres and Nicky Solomon; title: Fashioning subjectivity through workplace mentoring -- Anita Devos; title: Negotiating self through changing work -- Stephen Billett; title: Identity formation and literacy development within vocational education and work -- Glynda A. Hull and Jessica Zacher; title: Power and price of English : educating Nepalese people for the global workforce -- Ram Ashish Giri; title: Brain drain and the potential of professional diasporic networks -- Fazal Rizvi; title: Social technologies at work -- Bernard Holkner; title: 'Knowledge society' or work as 'spectacle'? : education for work and the prospects of social transformation in Arab societies -- André Elias Mazawi; title: Pedagogical approaches to work-related learning with special reference to the low-skilled -- Knud Illeris; title: Gender matters in IT : skills hierarchies and women's on-the-job learning -- Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas and Hong Zhu; title: Women and their knowledge managing the 'other economy' -- Maria Clara Bueno Fischer and Clair Ribeiro Ziebell; title: Ghost in the network : globalization and workplace learning-- Richard Edwards and Kathy Nicoll.