How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop: Challenges and Opportunities

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Helen Bound (Centre for Work and Learning at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore) Karen Evans

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop

Challenges and Opportunities

Helen Bound (Centre for Work and Learning at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore), Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik , Annie Karmel

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Routledge
26 July 2018

Philosophy & theory of education; Adult education, continuous learning; Employment & unemployment

Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore, it offers a model to guide thinking about workers’ learning and development in terms of an ‘integrated practice’ of craft, entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills. The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work.

Through its use of case studies, the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon. It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals. The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of ‘integrated practices’, challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle, but as an integrated whole.

With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education, educational policy and lifelong learning.

By: Helen Bound (Centre for Work and Learning at the Institute for Adult Learning Singapore), Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik, Annie Karmel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138103115
ISBN 10: 113810311X
Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 26 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. What does it mean to be a NPWer? Learning and identity 3. To be or not to be? That is not a simple question. Motivations for becoming a non-permanent worker 4. Contexts 5. Integrated practice 6. Using the spaces of NPW for learning curriculum design and delivery type 7. Implications for workforce development

Helen Bound is Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Work and Learning at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore; Honorary Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Tasmania; and Honorary Principal Research Fellow with Griffith University. Karen Evans is Emeritus Professor of Education at University College London, and Honorary Professor with the Centre for Learning and Life Chances, University College London. Sahara Sadik is Principal Researcher at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore. Annie Karmel was Researcher at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore.