Learning and Work and the Politics of Working Life: Global transformations and collective identities in teaching, nursing and social work
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Large scale changes in work and education are a key feature of contemporary global transformations, with a pervasive politics that affects people’s experiences of workplaces and learning spaces.This thought-provoking book uses empirical research to question prevailing debates surrounding compliance at work, education and lifelong learning, and emphasises the importance of debate and dissent within the current terms and conditions of work. Examining a number of types of work, including teaching, nursing and social work, through a transnational research space, the contributors investigate how disturbances in work both constrain and enable collective identities in practical politics. Structured around three main themes, the book covers:Disturbed work: with cases of occupational reform in nursing and vocational teaching in Finland and re-regulating work in AustraliaDisturbing work: examining contested occupational knowledge in German school to work transitions, paraprofessional healthwork in the UK, social work in Finland, and mobilising professional expertise in US Community College faculty and Australian adult literacyTransforming politics: negotiating an ageing workforce in Germany, young adults moving through identities and careers, building a politics of ‘we’ through a global book projectAn enlightening collection of international contributions, this book will appeal to all postgraduate students, researchers and policy makers, in education, work, and lifelong learning.
List of contributors viiiPreface xiiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction - disturbing work and transforming politics Terri Seddon Lea Henriksson Beatrix Niemeyer 11 Disturbing academic work: Theorising a global book project Terri Seddon Lea Henriksson Beatrix Niemeyer 16Part I Reconfiguring occupational orders 312 Human service labour force in the making: Spotlight on Finnish practical nurses Lea Henriksson 333 Disputing managerial architecture in educational work: Irony as a liberating strategy for Finnish vocational teachers Karin Filander 514 Disturbing work, workspaces and working lives: Three Australian case studies Anita Devos Lesley Farrell Terrj Seddon 69Part II The politics of expertise 855 Reconstructing US community college faculty: Mobilising professional expertise Richard L. Wagoner John S. Levin Susan Kater 876 German school-to-work transition programmes: Disturbing work for educators Beatrix Niemeyer 1077 Paraprofessional development in the UK: Ambivalences and contradictions Chris Kubiak 1258 Finnish redefinitions of the 'social' in social work: An eroding ethical discourse? Päivi Niiranen-Linkama 1429 Adult literacy teaching in Australia: Rethinking occupational knowledge Sue Shore 157Part III Navigating work-learning careers 17110 An Australian worker navigating precarious work and fluid subjectivity John Pardy 17311 Employers coping with their ageing workforce in Eastern Germany Rudolf Husemann 18612 Young adults' career prospects and aspirations in Eastern Germany and the United States Antje Barabasch 198Part IV Coda 21513 A politics of working life Frigga Haug 217Index226
