How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop : Challenges and Opportunities Hardback

by Helen (Centre for Work and Learning at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore) Bound, Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik, Annie Karmel

Part of the Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education series

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How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives.

Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore, it offers a model to guide thinking about workersâ€™ learning and development in terms of an â€˜integrated practiceâ€™ of craft, entrepreneurial and personal learning-to-learn skills.

The book considers how strategies for continuing education and training can better fit with the realities of non-permanent work. Through its use of case studies, the book exams the significance of non-permanent work and its rise as a global phenomenon.

It considers the reality of being a non-permanent worker and reactions to learning opportunities for these individuals.

The book draws these aspects together to present a conceptual frame of â€˜integrated practicesâ€™, challenging educational institutions and training providers to design and deliver learning and the enacted curriculum not as separate pieces of a puzzle, but as an integrated whole. With conclusions that have wider salience for public policy responses to the rise of non-permanent work, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of adult education, educational policy and lifelong learning.