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The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning

A Critical Reader

Editors:

  1. D. W. Livingstone

    1. University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  2. David Guile

    1. University of London, London, UK

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: The Knowledge Economy and Education (KNOW, volume 4)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. General Critiques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Section One

      • D. W. Livingstone, David Guile
      Pages 3-5

    3. Beyond The Hype

      • Kenneth Carlaw, Les Oxley, Paul Walker, David Thorns, Michael Nuth
      Pages 7-42

    4. Mapping Knowledge in Work

      • Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson
      Pages 43-55

    6. Debunking The ‘Knowledge Economy’

      • D. W. Livingstone
      Pages 85-116

    7. Globalization, Knowledge, and The Myth of The Magnet Economy

      • Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder
      Pages 117-146

    8. ‘The Art of Knowing’

      • Paul Duguid
      Pages 147-162

    9. The Knowledge Economy

      • Peter Kennedy
      Pages 163-183

  3. Specific Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Section Two

      • D. W. Livingstone, David Guile
      Pages 187-190

    3. Creating and Using Knowledge

      • Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin, Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, Konstantinos Kakavelakis
      Pages 191-206

    4. Professions as Knowledge Cultures1

      • Monika Nerland
      Pages 207-228

    5. Object Lessons

      • Beth A. Bechky
      Pages 229-256

    6. Improving Work Processes By Making The Invisible Visible1

      • Arthur Bakker, Celia Hoyles, Phillip Kent, Richard Noss
      Pages 257-275

    9. The Learning Worker, Organizations and Democracy

      • Catherine Casey
      Pages 317-333
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About this book

This book presents some of the most trenchant critical analyses of the widespread claims for the recent emergence of a knowledge economy and the attendant need for greater lifelong learning. The book contains two sections: first, general critiques of the limits of current notions of a knowledge economy and required adult learning, in terms of historical comparisons, socio-political construction and current empirical evidence; secondly, specific challenges to presumed relations between work requirements and learning through case studies in diverse current workplaces that document richer learning processes than knowledge economy advocates intimate. Many of the leading authors in the field are represented. There are no other books to date that both critically assess the limits of the notion of the knowledge economy and examine closely the relation of workplace restructuring to lifelong learning beyond the confines of formal higher education and related educational policies. This reader provides a distinctive overview for future studies of relations between work and learning in contemporary societies beyond caricatures of the knowledge economy. The book should be of interest to students following undergraduate or postgraduate courses in most social sciences and education, business and labour studies departments, as well as to policy makers and the general public concerned about economic change and lifelong learning issues. D. W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. David Guile is Professor of Education and Work at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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  • University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    D. W. Livingstone

  • University of London, London, UK

    David Guile

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