How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop: Challenges and Opportunities

By Annie Karmel, Helen Bound, Karen Evans, et al.

Book Overview

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore, it offers a model to guide thinking about workers' learning and development in terms of an 'integrated practice' of craft, entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills. The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work.

Through its use of case studies, the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon. It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals. The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of 'integrated practices', challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle, but as an integrated whole.

With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education, educational policy and lifelong learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367484099
• ISBN13: 9780367484095
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"