Education, Economy & Society

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Edited by Enver Motala, University of South Africa

Publisher:: University of South Africa
Online publication date:: February 2020
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781868888559
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.25159/855-9

Subjects:: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Education, Education, History, Theory, Anthropology

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Education, economy and society is a compelling and comprehensive antidote to the misconstrued nature of the relationship between education and society. It provides a constructive critique of conventional discourses but also alternative approaches to understand the connections between education and the triple scourge of unemployment, inequality and poverty. Against a tendency to reduce the skills discourse to narrow economic ends, the contributors passionately argue that education finds its value and purpose in a focus on social justice, transformation and democratic citizenship. The joy of education is to capture human imaginations and unleash their creativity towards a more humane and compassionate society. Here is a rich resource for educators, policy developers, trade unionists, and trainers to explore possibilities for a new pedagogy in post-school education and training through empirical research on skills, technology and issues of employment on the shop floor, critical analysis of the youth wage subsidy and workers' education. The book will appeal to a wide audience including students and academics in the fields of industrial sociology; economics; adult education; further education and training; and those in youth development.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Foreword
pp vii-ix

Preface
pp x-xi

About the contributors
pp xii-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations and acronyms
pp xv-xvi

Chapter 1 - ‘NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES’: Rethinking the Relationship between Education, Skills and Employment
pp 1-25

Chapter 2 - EDUCATION AND ECONOMY: Demystifying the Skills Discourse
pp 26-47

Chapter 3 - UNIVERSITIES AND THE ‘KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY’
pp 48-56

Chapter 4 - GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES: Employability, Responsiveness, and the Reform of the College Sector
pp 57-80

Chapter 5 - BUILDING A TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGY in Vocational Education
pp 81-102

Chapter 6 - SKILLS? WHAT SKILLS? JOBS? WHAT JOBS? An Overview of Research into Education/Labour Market Relationships
pp 103-124

Chapter 7 - DEBATING THE NEXUS of Education, Skills and Technology in the Age of Lean Production: A Case Study of the ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark Plant
pp 125-152

Chapter 8 - SKILLS, JOBS AND DECEPTION: Examples from the South African Workplace
pp 153-170

Chapter 9 - ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF EDUCATION: Reflections on Unemployment, the ‘Skills Gap’ and ‘Zombie Economics’
pp 171-189

Chapter 10 - THE YOUTH WAGE SUBSIDY in South Africa: Employment, Skills and ‘Churning’
pp 190-212

Chapter 11 - EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE and the Struggle for Recognition: Human Dignity and the Recognition of Prior Learning
pp 213-229

Chapter 12 - (RE)CLAIMING WORKERS' EDUCATION
pp 230-243

Chapter 13 - SKILLS DEVELOPMENT in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Issues, Arguments and Contestations
pp 244-264

Index
pp 265-273

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