Laboring and Learning
Produktform: E-Buch Text Elektronisches Buch in proprietärem
This volume incorporates ground-breaking
new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people
make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and
work. The chapters in the volume offer conceptual and empirical insights into
how young people learn to labour, and the complex social, spatial, temporal,
institutional and relational processes that informs their engagements in daily,
generational and social reproduction. The editors have intentionally avoided
using the terms ‘education’ and ‘employment’ in the title, as this volume is an
attempt to capture the multitude of ways, spaces and contexts (not just
‘formal’) in which learning takes place and work is carried out. Here, learning
indicates education in the broadest possible sense, to incorporate not
just formal schooling and the acquisition of institutionally recognised
academic knowledge and credentials, but also informal learning (including
socialization and the on-the-job acquisition of skills that takes place almost
imperceptibly, over time). In addition to the theoretical perspectives this
volume brings on young people’s education and work, other prominent conceptual
themes present throughout the work are mobilities, transitions and gender.
Following four initial chapters that engage with conceptual issues, the
remainder of the volume is divided into two sections, entitled ‘spaces of
labouring and learning’ and ‘livelihoods, transitions and social reproduction’.
Within these sections, a broad spectrum of empirical chapters demonstrates how
young people live, learn and labour in Africa,
Asia, Europe and Latin America. These include, among others,
geographies of education; interface between migration, learning and
livelihoods; cultural politics of human capital formation; schooling and work;
citizenship education; families and parenting; socialization and informal
education; education-induced migration; processes and practices of inclusion
and exclusion in educational institutions; part-time work; domestic work; care
work; informal livelihoods; entrepreneurship; social transitions; and a wide
range of social, economic, cultural, political (structural) forces that
intersect and dissect these topics. As the reader will become aware, there is
no such thing as a standard educational or work trajectory, a ‘normal’
transition or a straight forward relationship between work, education and
social reproduction. Indeed, one of the aims of the volume is deliberately to
showcase the diversity that young people’s lives hold in this regard.weiterlesen
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