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James Avis

Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age

James Avis

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
06 January 2022

Sociology: work & labour; Educational strategies & policy; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Industrial or vocational training; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

This book examines the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on vocational education and training. Broadly located in a framework rooted in critical/radical theory, the book argues that the affordance of technologies surrounding the fourth industrial revolution are constrained by their location within a neoliberal, if not capitalist, logic. Thus, the impact of this revolution will be experienced differently across European regions as well as low and middle income economies. In order to break this impasse, this book calls for a politics based on non-reformist reforms, premised on an aspiration towards a socially just society that transcends capitalism.

By: James Avis
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9783030520342
ISBN 10: 303052034X
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 06 January 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1. Introduction: Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age.- Chapter 2. Socio-technical Imaginaries and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 3. Robotisation, artificial intelligence, employment and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 4. Post-work, post-capitalism and the fourth industrial revolution.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Derby and Professor Emeritus at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include vocational education and training, the political economy of post-compulsory education, the labour process and education policy.

Reviews for Vocational Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Education and Employment in a Post-Work Age

The book has many strengths. Above all, though a short book, it is incredibly rich, reflecting Avis's breadth of scholarship about VET and work. ... All in all, this is a book to be highly commended and welcomed. James Avis does important work for the field in problematizing some of the current policy nonsense of a critical VET for 4IR. Beyond this, however, he highlights the huge, indeed, existential questions that face VET whatever 4IR amounts to in substance. (Simon McGrath, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Vol. 74 (2), 2022)