Education and Jobs
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Education and Jobs

Exploring the Gaps

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Education and Jobs

Exploring the Gaps

About this book

"Edited by one of the world's leading educational sociologists, based on national survey data and close-focus case studies, this book makes a powerful case for new policy, industrial, and educational thinking." - Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables and Graphs
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Key Acronyms
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One. Prior Research Perspectives
  7. Chapter One. Prior Concepts and Theories of the Relationship between Workers and Jobs
  8. Chapter Two. Prior Empirical Research on Education-Job Matching
  9. Chapter Three. Starting with The Education-Jobs Gap
  10. Part Two. Surveying the Gaps
  11. Chapter Four. Education and Jobs Survey Profile I: National Trends in Employment Conditions, Job Requirements,Workers’ Learning and Matching, 1983–2004
  12. Chapter Five. Education and Jobs Survey Profile II: Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers’ Learning and Matching, by Employee Class and Specific Occupational Group, 2004
  13. Part Three. Exploring the Gaps: Case Studies
  14. Chapter Six. Elements of an Integrated Theory of Work and Learning
  15. Chapter Seven. Continual Learning, Autonomy, and Competency among High School Teachers
  16. Chapter Eight. Staying Current in Computer Programming: The Importance of Informal Learning and Task Discretion in Maintaining Job Competence
  17. Chapter Nine. Clerical Workers:Work and Learning in Fragmenting Workplaces
  18. Chapter Ten. Auto Workers’ Learning in Lean Production
  19. Chapter Eleven. Struggling to Remain Employed: Learning Strategies of Workers with Disabilities and the Education-Job Match
  20. Part Four. Conclusions
  21. Chapter Twelve. The Relationship between Learning and Work: Empirical Evidence from the Case Studies
  22. Chapter Thirteen. Education and Jobs: The Way Ahead
  23. Appendices
  24. Bibliography
  25. The Authors
  26. Index