World Yearbook of Education 2007: Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

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This 2007 volume of the World Yearbook of Education considers the challenges of understanding and providing work-related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy. It looks at the impact of these challenges on both workers and labour markets and considers the current global context from a wide variety of theoretical, political and cultural perspectives.

List of contributors	p. viii
Series editors' introduction	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
What counts as working knowledge?	p. 11
Educating a global workforce?	p. 13
Globalisation, work and indigenous knowledge in the global marketplace: the New Zealand experience	p. 27
Whose knowledge counts? A case study of a joint MBA programme between Australia and China	p. 41
Work and the labour process: 'use-value' and the rethinking of skills and learning	p. 54
From union education to workers' education: workers learning how to confront twenty-first-century capitalism	p. 65
Healing, hiding and hope(lessness): HIV/AIDS and workplace education in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	p. 76
Knowing and working the global economy	p. 89
Working life learning, young people and competitive advantage: notes from a European perspective	p. 91
Meeting the challenges of global economy in vocational education and training: the case of Malaysia	p. 102
Vocational training through the apprenticeship system in Turkey	p. 115
Where the global meets the local: workforce diversity education	p. 127
Organizational learning: competence-bearing relations and breakdowns of workplace relatonics	p. 141
Learning imperialism through training in transnational call centres	p. 154
Work, working life and working identities	p. 165
Working on identities	p. 167
Fashioning subjectivity through workplace mentoring	p. 178
Negotiating self through changing work	p. 189
Identity formation and literacy development within vocational education and work	p. 200
The power and price of English: educating Nepalese people for the global workforce	p. 211
Challenges for work-related education	p. 225
Brain drain and the potential of professional diasporic networks	p. 227
Social technologies at work	p. 239
'Knowledge society' or work as 'spectacle'? Education for work and the prospects of social transformation in Arab societies	p. 251
Pedagogical approaches to work-related learning with special reference to the low-skilled	p. 268
Gender matters in IT: skills hierarchies and women's on-the-job learning	p. 278
Women and their knowledge managing the 'other economy'	p. 289
The ghost in the network: globalization and workplace learning	p. 300
Index	p. 311
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World Yearbook of Education 2007: Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

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