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On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work: 13 (Global Education in the 21st Century, 13) - Hardcover

Book 15 of 16: Global Education in the 21st Century

Argent, Garry; Kelly, Peter

 
9789004724457: On the Problem of Foundation Skills and the Futures of Work: 13 (Global Education in the 21st Century, 13)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004724451 ISBN 13: 9789004724457
Publisher: Brill, 2025

Synopsis

This book provides an analysis of how global capitalism, digital disruption, and new worlds of work have reshaped ideas about language, literacy and numeracy (foundation) skills in a neoliberal foundation skills apparatus in Australia since the 1980s.

The book uses Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach to producing critical ‘histories of our present’. From this perspective it examines how these disruptions have transformed what was once a voluntary, not-for-profit community ‘movement’ of education for migrants and marginalised people into a sophisticated government, community, and for-profit training and skills sector which imagines foundation skills learners as choice making consumers.

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About the Author

Garry Argent is Lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research focuses on the foundation skills of adults, vocational education and applied learning in schools.
Peter Kelly is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Deakin University. His research focuses on young people’s education, employment and well-being in times of crisis at the convergence of the sixth mass extinction and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004724451
ISBN 13 
9789004724457
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
260