Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training
This article discusses how to comprehend why people working in unskilled jobs are less likely than other groups to position themselves as educable subjects and engage in adult education and training. The article outlines how different research traditions examining recruitment to and participation in...
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2015-10-01
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| Series: | European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9064 |
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| description | This article discusses how to comprehend why people working in unskilled jobs are less likely than other groups to position themselves as educable subjects and engage in adult education and training. The article outlines how different research traditions examining recruitment to and participation in adult education and training reveal and explain distinctive participation patterns. These traditions are critically reviewed to identify how they provide specific understandings as well as certain blind spots. The review reveals a striking absence of research into unskilled work and thus a tendency to overlook how engagement in particular kinds of work condition people's perception of adult education and training. It is finally argued that future research must pay closer attention to people's specific work-life and examine how engagement in specific historical, social and material (changing) work practices condition their perception of adult education and training. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4cfbd3b1a084e6fbf928c2ed02a02392022-12-21T23:44:17ZengLinköping University Electronic PressEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults2000-74262015-10-016215917310.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9064Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and trainingSissel KondrupThis article discusses how to comprehend why people working in unskilled jobs are less likely than other groups to position themselves as educable subjects and engage in adult education and training. The article outlines how different research traditions examining recruitment to and participation in adult education and training reveal and explain distinctive participation patterns. These traditions are critically reviewed to identify how they provide specific understandings as well as certain blind spots. The review reveals a striking absence of research into unskilled work and thus a tendency to overlook how engagement in particular kinds of work condition people's perception of adult education and training. It is finally argued that future research must pay closer attention to people's specific work-life and examine how engagement in specific historical, social and material (changing) work practices condition their perception of adult education and training.http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9064Adult education and trainingparticipation researchwork life experiencemotivationunskilled work |
| spellingShingle | Sissel Kondrup Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults Adult education and training participation research work life experience motivation unskilled work |
| title | Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training |
| title_full | Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training |
| title_short | Understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training |
| title_sort | understanding unskilled work as a condition for participation in adult education and training |
| topic | Adult education and training participation research work life experience motivation unskilled work |
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