Laboring and Learning, m. 1 Buch, m. 1 E-Book

This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work. The chapters in the volume offer conceptual and empirical insights into how young people learn to labour, and the complex social, spatial, temporal, institutional and relational processes that informs their engagements in daily, generational and social reproduction. The editors have intentionally avoided using the terms 'education' and 'employment' in the title, as this volume is an attempt to capture the multitude of ways, spaces and contexts  (not just 'formal') in which learning takes place and work is carried out. Here, learning indicates education in the broadest possible sense, to incorporate not just formal schooling and the acquisition of institutionally recognised academic knowledge and credentials, but also informal learning (including socialization and the on-the-job acquisition of skills that takes place almost imperceptibly, over time). In addition to the theoretical perspectives this volume brings on young people's education and work, other prominent conceptual themes present throughout the work are mobilities, transitions and gender. Following four initial chapters that engage with conceptual issues, the remainder of the volume is divided into two sections, entitled 'spaces of labouring and learning' and 'livelihoods, transitions and social reproduction'. Within these sections, a broad spectrum of empirical chapters demonstrates how young people live, learn and labour in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. These include, among others, geographies of education; interface between migration, learning and livelihoods; cultural politics of human capital formation; schooling and work; citizenship education; families and parenting; socialization and informal education; education-induced migration; processes and practices of inclusion and exclusion in educational institutions; part-time work; domestic work; care work; informal livelihoods; entrepreneurship; social transitions; and a wide range of social, economic, cultural, political (structural) forces that intersect and dissect these topics. As the reader will become aware, there is no such thing as a standard educational or work trajectory, a 'normal' transition or a straight forward relationship between work, education and social reproduction. Indeed, one of the aims of the volume is deliberately to showcase the diversity that young people's lives hold in this regard.

List of contents

1              Geographies of Laboring and Learning: Introduction
               
2              African Socialization Values and Nonformal Educational Practices: Child Development, Parental Beliefs, and Educational Innovation in Rural Zambia
3              Geographies of Education: Families, Parenting, and Schools
4              Informal Education, Its Drivers and Geographies: Necessity and Curiosity in Africa and the West
5              Labor as Education
6              Achieving Gender Parity in Education: Achievements and Limitations of Millennium Development Goal 3
7              Education, School, and Learning: Dominant Perspectives
8              Intersections of School, Work, and Learning: Children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
               
9              Encounter, Interaction, and the University: Producing Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion of International Students
10           Migration and the Spaces of Laboring and Learning for Children and Young People in Asian Contexts
11           Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration: The Malaysian Case
12           Adolescents' Part-Time Work and Its Linkage to Educational Outcomes: The Case of South Korea
13           Cultural Politics of Education and Human Capital Formation: Learning to Labor in Singapore
14           International Student Mobility: A Critical Overview
15           Learning Skills, Building Social Capital, and Getting an Education: Actual and Potential Advantages of Child Domestic Work in Bangladesh
               
16           Homeless Youth Labor Continuum:  Working in Formal and Informal Economies from Highland Guatemala to San Francisco, California
17           Social Reproduction Through Citizenship Education: Performing the Habitus of Pragmatic Compliance
18           Education and Employment Transitions: The Experiences of Young People with Caring Responsibilities in Zambia
19           Economic Practices of African Street Youth: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Zimbabwe
20           Entrepreneurship as a Possible Solution to Youth Unemployment in Africa
21           Schooling, Generation, and Transformations in Livelihoods: Youth in the Sand Economy of Northern Kenya
22           Reproducing Work, Education, and Revolution: Two Latin American Case Studies
23           Young People's Marginal Livelihoods and Social Transitions in Urban Brazil: Tale of Four Lives
24           Undocumented and Documented Homeless Youth in the US Labor Force: Economically Useful and Politically Disenfranchised

About the author

Traces Skelton, formerly a Professor in Critical Geographies, Loughborough University, UK, Tracey Skelton currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. A prolific writer, and avid researcher, Skelton has written numerous papers in top journals and authored and edited several books. She is an active editorial board member of premium journals in Geography, such as Geoforum, Children s Geographies, and ACME.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tatek Abebe (Editor), Tracey Skelton (Editor), Johanna Waters (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Mixed media product
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9789812870322
• ISBN: 978-981-287-032-2
• No. of pages: 548
• Illustrations: XXII, 548 p. 19 illus., 16 illus. in color. Print + eReference.
• Series: Geographies of Children and Young People; Geographies of Children and Young People
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)