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Author : Paul E. Willis
Release : 1981
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 570/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Learning to Labor by : Paul E. Willis
Download or read book Learning to Labor written by Paul E. Willis. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.
Author : Nadine Dolby
Release : 2013-01-11
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 584/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Learning to Labor in New Times by : Nadine Dolby
Download or read book Learning to Labor in New Times written by Nadine Dolby. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his seminal Learning to Labor, one of the most frequently cited and assigned texts in the cultural studies and social foundations of education.
Author : Alexander Sidorkin
Release : 2019-02-11
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 591/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Labor of Learning by : Alexander Sidorkin
Download or read book Labor of Learning written by Alexander Sidorkin. This book was released on 2019-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the end of an era in education. It argues that schooling as we know it will cease to exist and be replaced with something else.
Author : Katherine S. Newman
Release : 2016-04-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reskilling America by : Katherine S. Newman
Download or read book Reskilling America written by Katherine S. Newman. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and stranded, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. But we don't have a skilled enough labor pool to fill the positions that will be created, which are in many cases technically demanding and require specialized skills. A decades-long series of idealistic educational policies with the expressed goal of getting every student to go to college has left a generation of potential workers out of the system. Touted as a progressive, egalitarian institution providing opportunity even to those with the greatest need, the American secondary school system has in fact deepened existing inequalities. We can do better, argue acclaimed sociologists Katherine Newman and Hella Winston. Taking a page from the successful experience of countries like Germany and Austria, where youth unemployment is a mere 7%, they call for a radical reevaluation of the idea of vocational training, long discredited as an instrument of tracking. The United States can prepare a new, high-performance labor force if we revamp our school system to value industry apprenticeship and rigorous technical education. By doing so, we will not only be able to meet the growing demand for skilled employees in dozens of sectors where employers decry the absence of well trained workers -- we will make the American Dream accessible to all.
Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creating a Learning Society by : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Download or read book Creating a Learning Society written by Joseph E. Stiglitz. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review
